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• Pickup Spread: Spreads the two pickups across the stereo or surround base. In other
words, the pickup position, combined with this parameter, will be spread further
toward/from the left/right stereo/surround channels. Drag the Pickup button vertically
to adjust. Two dots in the ring that surrounds the Spread parameters indicate the values.
In surround instances, these two parameters can be affected by the the Surround Range
parameter. For more information, see Controlling Sculpture’s Surround Range and
Diversity).
Note: You can create animated width and chorus effects by modulating the Pickup
Position parameters with an LFO or other modulator.
Using Sculpture’s Global Parameters
These are found across the top of the Sculpture interface, unless otherwise specified.
• Glide Time field: Determines the time required to slide from the pitch of one played
note to another. See Setting Sculpture’s Glide (Portamento) Time.
• Tune field: Used to fine-tune the entire instrument, in cents. A cent is 1/100th of a
semitone.
• Warmth field: Slightly detunes each voice, much like the random fluctuations caused
by the components and circuitry of analog synthesizers. As the parameter name
suggests, this warms up or thickens the sound.
• Transpose field: Used for coarse tuning of the entire instrument. Given the ability of
component modeling to radically alter pitch with certain settings, coarse tuning is
limited to octave increments.
• Voices field: Determines the number of voices that can be played at any one time.
Sixteen voices is the maximum polyphony of Sculpture.
• Keyboard Mode buttons: Enable polyphonic, monophonic, and legato behaviors. See
Choosing Sculpture’s Keyboard Mode (Poly/Mono/Legato).
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