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2 Open the Transpose pop-up menu at the top of the interface, choose the +1 Oct.
parameter, and play a few notes around C2. You’ll note that the general color of an
acoustic bass is already there.
3 You can certainly drag the ball on the Material Pad toward the Nylon corner, but first
open Object 1’s Type pop-up menu and choose Pick.
4 Play your keyboard, and adjust the ball position while doing so.
5 Now take a look at the Strength, Variation, Timbre, and VeloSens parameters of Object 1,
and adjust each in turn, to taste.
6 You may also wish to adjust the amplitude envelope’s Release parameter (the vertical
R slider in the section to the right of the circular Material Pad).
7 To make your bass more woody, adjust Object 1’s pickup position toward the right (drag
the #1 slider in the Pickup section, which is at the left side of the interface). At extreme
positions (the left or right end), you’ll find that the bottom end of your bass is lost. Try it
out!
8 Now adjust the position of Pickup A and Pickup B by dragging the horizontal sliders. As
you’ll hear, you can quickly recreate a picked acoustic or electric bass sound.
9 To instantly make the sound a hybrid (or full-on) synthesizer bass, click the Waveshaper
button (directly above the circular Material Pad), open the Type pop-up menu above it,
and choose one of the types.
10 Use the Save Setting As command from the Settings menu to save your settings with
new names as you go. You’ll probably come up with several new sounds in just a few
minutes. Each of these can be used as is, or as templates for future bass sounds you will
create.
Creating Bell Sounds with Sculpture
At a basic level, bell-like sounds are quite easy to produce with Sculpture. The creation
of truly interesting bells involves a little more effort, but the harmonic richness and
detuning during the decay/release phase makes all the difference.
To create a bell sound
1 Load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file.
2 Open Object 1’s Type pop-up menu and choose Strike.
3 Drag the Material Pad ball to the very bottom of the pad, and place it halfway between
Steel and Glass. Play a few notes, and notice that the sound is already more bell-like.
4 Now drag the Media Loss slider nearly all the way down. Again play a few notes, and
you’ll hear that the release phase of the sound is considerably longer.
5 Drag the Resolution slider all the way to the right.
6 Drag the Pickup A slider to about halfway (0.48).
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