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7 Drag Object 1’s pickup position to a value of 0.10. You should be starting to get pretty
bells now … play a few notes.
8 Now click the Delay button in the upper-right section to activate the Delay unit.
9 Click the Sync button at the bottom of the Delay section, and drag the Delay Time slider
to a value of 20 ms.
10 Adjust the Wet Level knob to 66%.
11 Click the Body EQ button in the lower right to activate it. Ensure that Lo Mid Hi is selected
in the Model pop-up menu.
12 Adjust the Low knob to 0.55, the Mid knob to 0.32, and the Hi knob to 0.20.
13 At this point, you will have a working bell sound, but you’ll probably find that there is a
tuning issue below C3, in particular. This programming approach was taken because the
harmonics of the sound are most noticeable after all other parameters have been set.
The solution to the tuning issue primarily lies in the Inner Loss and Stiffness Keyscale
parameters. To adjust, first select the Keyscale button, then drag the green horizontal
line within the Material Pad up or down for low notes, or drag the blue horizontal line
up or down for high notes.
14 Use the Save Setting As command from the Settings menu to save your settings with a
new name, and use it as the basis for new bell sounds, or your next Christmas album.
Creating Brass Sounds with Sculpture
Brass instruments are notoriously difficult to recreate with electronic instruments. Samplers
do a reasonable job in the right hands, and with the right sample library, but they lack
the organic warmth of a real brass player. This is a simple and generic brass setting that
can be played as a solo instrument or as a brass section.
To create a generic brass sound
1 Load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file.
2 Set Object 1’s type to Blow.
3 Activate Object 2, and set its type to Noise.
4 Adjust the Strength of Object 1 to around 0.90.
5 Set Object 1 VeloSens to around 0.30.
6 Drag the Material Pad ball to a position that is diagonally between the “I” of Inner Loss,
and the “l” of the word Steel, while playing middle C. The sound should be quite brassy.
7 Now play the E above middle C and you’ll hear a weird “mandolin meets a telephone
ring” kind of sound.
8 Drag the Resolution slider to the left or right while playing middle C and a few notes
down an octave or so. You’ll discover that a range of sounds that cover everything from
sitars to flutes is possible, just through manipulation of this parameter.
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