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Chapter 13 Sculpture 246
Sculpture excite table (objects 1 and 2)
Before you look at the tables of object types and properties, you should note the following:
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Object 1 can only use the excite types found in the rst table.
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Object 2 can use the excite and disturb/damp types available in both tables.
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Object 3 can only use the disturb/damp types found in the second table. See Sculpture disturb
and damp table (objects 2 and 3) on page 247.
The following table lists all excite types available for Objects 1 and 2, and information about the
controls available for each object type.
Name Description Strength controls Timbre controls Variation controls
Impulse A short impulse
excitation
Impulse amplitude Width Velocity
dependence of
width
Strike Short excitation,
like a piano
hammer or mallet
Hammer start
speed (velocity
dependent)
Hammer mass Felt stiness
GravStrike Like hammer but
with gravitation
toward the string,
leading to multiple
hammer-string
interactions and
disturbed string
vibrations
Hammer start
speed
Felt stiness Gravitation
Pick Finger or plectrum
picking
Pickup force and
speed
Force/speed ratio Plectrum stiness
Bow Bowing of the
string
Bow speed Bow pressure Slip stick
characteristics
Bow wide Same as bow, but
wider, resulting in a
more mellow tone,
especially suited
for smooth bow
position changes
Bow speed Bow pressure Slip stick
characteristics
Noise Noise injected into
the string
Noise level Noise bandwidth/
cuto frequency
Noise resonance
Blow Blow into one end
of the string (an air
column, or tube). At
various positions,
starting from 0.0
(far left), move the
blowing direction
and position from
along the string
toward one end.
The string is blown
sideways at the
chosen position.
Lip clearance Blow pressure Noisiness
External (available
only for Object 2)
Feeds side-chain
signal into string.
Level Cuto frequency of
lowpass lter being
used to process
side-chain signal
Width (size) of the
string area being
aected by the
side-chained signal