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Bender Range Up/Down fields: Set the upward/downward pitch bend range. These
parameters are found below Object 3, on the left side of the interface.
Separate settings are available for upward and downward pitch bends—using your
MIDI keyboard’s pitch bend controller.
When Bender Range Down is set to Linked, the Bender Range Up value is used for
both (up and down) directions.
Note: Bending the string will, just like the string on a real guitar, alter the shape of the
modeled string, rather than merely act as a simple pitch bend.
Choosing Sculptures Keyboard Mode (Poly/Mono/Legato)
A polyphonic instrument allows several notes to be played simultaneously—an organ or
piano, for example. Many older analog synthesizers are monophonic, which means that
only one note can be played at a time, much like a brass or reed instrument. This shouldn’t
be viewed as a disadvantage in any way, because it allows playing styles that are not
possible with polyphonic instruments.
If you choose Mono mode, staccato playing will retrigger the envelope generators
every time a new note is played. If you play in a legato style (play a new key while
holding another), the envelope generators are triggered only for the first note you play
legato, and then continue their curve until you release the last legato played key.
The Legato mode is also monophonic, but with one difference: The envelope generators
are retriggered only if you play staccato (release each key before playing a new key).
Legato playing will not retrigger the envelopes.
All modes simply retrigger a potentially sounding voice with the same pitch, instead of
allocating a new one. Therefore, multiple triggering of a given note results in slight timbral
variations, depending on the current state of the model at note-on time.
If Sculpture’s string is still vibrating for a specific note, retriggering that same note will
interact with the ongoing vibration, or current state of the string.
Important: A true retrigger of the vibrating string will happen only if both Attack sliders
of the amplitude envelope are set to 0. If either slider is set to any other value, a new
voice will be allocated with each retriggered note. See Using Sculpture’s Amplitude
Envelope Parameters.
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