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10 Click-hold the Spread Pickup semicircle, and drag vertically to increase the perception of
stereo width (a value around the 10 o’clock/2 o’clock mark is nice).
11 Activate the Filter, and select Lo Pass mode.
12 Adjust the Cutoff and Resonance parameters to taste (try both at 0.81).
13 Adjust the Tension Mod slider upward, and play the keyboard to see how the momentary
detuning effect caused by this parameter affects the sound. Set it to an appropriate
amount.
14 Set the Level Limiter mode to “both.”
15 Save setting as with a new name.
You may notice that a different approach was taken in the creation of this setting. The
reason for this is the major impact that the Body EQ model has on the sound. In some
cases, like this one, it may be better to work slightly out of sequence, rather than to strictly
follow the signal flow.
To create other, guitar-like sounds
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Adjust the Object Strength, Variation, and Timbre parameters.
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Reposition the Material Pad ball to create a completely different tone to your guitar.
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Use Delay or Vibrato to emulate the double-strike picking of mandolins.
Creating Organ Sounds with Sculpture
Organ sounds are among the easiest and quickest sounds to emulate in Sculpture, because
they have no release phase. This simplifies things in that you don’t need to set Keyscaling
parameters for the basic tone. You may, however, do so at a later stage—for modulation
routing or specific sound design purposes.
To create an organ sound
1 Load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file. (Object 1’s type should be set to Impulse.
If it isn’t, change it now.)
2 Set the Voices parameter to a value of 8, or higher if you wish.
3 Drag the Material Pad ball to the top-left corner.
4 Activate Object 2 and set the type to Bow.
5 Set the Object 2 Gate mode to Always.
6 Drag the R(elease) slider of the amplitude envelope all the way down.
7 Play a C chord, and you’ll hear a flute-like sound.
8 Drag Pickup A to the far right.
9 Play a C chord, and you’ll hear a cheesy organ sound. As you can see, Pickup A’s position
has a significant effect on the overall sonic character of the sound.
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