Instruments and Effects

Chapter 28 Sculpture 549
Increasing Stereo Breadth and Chorus
To give this very dry sounding pad a little more stereo breadth and chorus effect, use
the trick discussed while creating bass sounds. To refresh your memory, modulate the
Pickup positions, and assign them to the left and right channels.
Here’s a quick description of the process:
1 Click-hold on the Pickup semicircle in the Spread control element, and move the
mouse upwards to separate the stereo pan positions of the Pickups. Both of the light
blue dots should come to rest near the line that separates both semicircles.
2 Activate both of the modulation links in LFO1 by clicking on the buttons labeled 1 and
2. For the first link, modulate the position of Pickup A (Target: PickA Pos) with a small
positive value and with the second link, the position of pickup B (Target: PickB Pos)
with a small negative value (intensity at ±0.15). Reduce the Rate of the LFO to about
0.3 Hz.
You will hear a pleasant beating or chorus effect in the sound, which makes it broader
and more full, alleviating the unpleasant, dry character (preset 0002 lfo>pick pad).
Another unpleasant aspect is that the sound is too strong in the mid frequency range
and could use some equalization. You can use the Body EQ to correct this.
Activate the Body EQ, and experiment with the Lo Mid Hi model (which is the standard
setting). Try these settings: reduce Mid to –0.5 and set Mid Frequency to 0.37.