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Chapter 13 Sculpture 274
Use Sculpture’s envelope display
The envelope curve is shown in the display to the lower right of the Sculpture interface. The
envelope display is active only if the envelope is engaged (Mode buttons are set to either Env or
Ctrl+Env).
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The overall time/length of the envelope is indicated by the numerical entry at the top right of
the window (2400 ms in the gure).
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The maximum time/length of the envelope is 48 bars/40 seconds.
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The lines on the background grid are placed 100 milliseconds apart.
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The background lines are placed 1000 ms apart when very long envelope times are displayed.
In sync mode, this is displayed as 1 quarter.
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The envelope is zoomed automatically after you release the mouse button. This displays the
entire envelope at the highest possible resolution. You can disable or enable this feature by
clicking the Autozoom button—the small magnifying glass.
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Autozoom is automatically disabled when you perform a manual zoom—by clicking the
envelope display background, and dragging horizontally. As a reference, the current display
width is displayed in the numerical entry at the top right of the display. You can re-engage
automatic zooming by clicking the Autozoom button.
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If you click the handles (nodes) or lines between the nodes in the envelope display, the current
envelope segment becomes highlighted. A small help tag also indicates the millisecond value
of the current segment.
Copy, paste, or clear Sculpture envelopes with the shortcut menu
You can copy and paste envelopes between Envelopes 1 and 2, between settings, or between
multiple open Sculpture instances. The Clear command deletes the selected envelope.
m Control-click the envelope buttons or the envelope display background, then choose Copy, Paste,
or Clear from the shortcut menu.