User Guide

Chapter 28 Sculpture 519
 Activate the Body EQ by clicking the Body EQ button. Ensure that the Lo Mid Hi
model is selected.
 Adjust the Low level to 0.55, the Mid to 0.32, and the Hi to 0.20.
 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 KeyScaling parameters. To adjust, first select the Keyscale button, then click-
hold on the green horizontal line (within the Material Pad) for low notes, or the blue
horizontal line for high notes—and drag up/down to the desired position.
 Save setting as… with a new name, and use it as the basis for new bell sounds, or
your next Christmas album.
Brass
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
patch that can be played as a solo instrument or as a brass section.
 Load your “plain vanilla” patch.
 Set Object 1’s type to Blow.
 Activate Object 2, and set its type to Noise.
 Adjust the Strength of Object 1 to around 0.90.
 Set Object 1 VeloSens to around 0.30.
 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.
 Now play the “E” above middle “C,” and you’ll hear a weird mandolin meets a
telephone” kind of sound.
 Drag the Resolution slider to the left/right while playing middle “C” and a few notes
down an octave or so. You’ll discover a range of sounds that cover everything from
sitars to flutes is possible, just through manipulation of this parameter.
 Now click on the Keyscale button and—while playing up/down the keyboard—
independently adjust the Resolution slider, plus the Resolution Low/High Keyscale
sliders until the range of the keyboard that you wish to play (say an octave or so
around middle “C”) doesn’t suffer from those mandolin/phone artifacts. Oh, and
make sure that your sound is still brassy.
 Move Pickup A’s position to around 77%.
 Turn on the Waveshaper and select Scream as your preferred type. Adjust the Input
Scale and Variation parameters to taste.
 Turn on the Filter. Select HiPass mode, and adjust the Cutoff, Resonance, and other
filter parameters to taste. (As a suggestion, Cutoff at 0.30 and Resonance at 0.41).