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Chapter 13 Sculpture 291
String and object interactions in Sculpture
Each parameter has an impact on the overall tone of the string and—more often than not—an
impact on the string interaction of other parameters.
As you introduce or make changes to parameters, the modeled string is aected. This, in turn,
aects the interaction of each parameter with the modeled string. Therefore, parameter settings
that you already made for Object 1, for example, may need to be adjusted when Object 2 is
turned on.
Generally, such adjustments won’t need to be radical, and may involve only a small tweak to
the Strength parameters, or perhaps to the pickup positions of each object, for example. These
parameters have the greatest impact on the tone and level of the objects and should be the rst
things you look at if enabling Object 2 results in an unwanted change to the color of your sound.
You may want to ne-tune the objects further through use of the Timbre and Variation controls.
Small changes—rather than radical ones—will retain the general tonal character of the string
and Object 1, while introducing the new avor of Object 2.
Explore Sculpture’s pickups
The vibration of the string is captured by two movable pickups. The pickup section also houses
three object sliders—used to set the position of each object along the string.
Objects
Objects
Pickup A slider
Pickup B slider
Change the object positions along the string
1 Reload the #default (or your vanilla) setting le.
2 Drag the Object 1 pickup left or right while striking a key. Note that adjustment of the object
pickup position alters the tonal characteristics of the string.
3 Adjust Object 1’s Strength control to hear things better, or to adjust the tone. You can also use
Object 1’s Timbre and Variation parameters to alter the tone.
4 Feel free to adjust the positions and parameters of the other objects, if they are active.
Change the pickup positions along the string
m Drag the Pickup A and Pickup B sliders. Note that changes to the pickup positions result in quite
dierent string vibrations and tonal qualities. If you want to increase the overall volume, adjust
the Level knob on the right of Sculpture’s interface, directly opposite the Pickup section.