User Guide

530 Chapter 28 Sculpture
Play some notes in the lower range. you’ll note that the sound is very muffled, hollow,
and distorted. Before you adjust further parameters in Object 1, you need to set the
position of the pickup.
This is accomplished in Sculpture’s pickup display located to the left of the Material
Pad. You’ll find three trapezoidally shaped sliders, representing Objects 1 to 3. Both of
the transparent bell-shaped curves help you to visualize the position and width of
Pickup A and Pickup B.
On electric basses, the pickups are found quite a way off to the side and near the
bridge. This particular bass only has a single pickup.
The behavior of a single pickup is simulated by placing both pickups at exactly the
same position.
5 Keep an eye on the help tag, and drag Pickup B to the exact position of Pickup A. The
two thin orange lines should overlap perfectly. As a suitable value for the example, set
both pickups to 0.10.
Note: Make sure that the Invert switch to the lower left of the pickup display isn’t
turned on, as this would cause the pickups to completely cancel each other out.
It’s now time to determine the playing position:
6 Grab the Object 1 slider in the pickup display and move it in a horizontal direction. Play
the keyboard while doing so, to hear the changes it makes.
7 You’ll quickly realize that you can only achieve a precise, crisp sound when relatively far
away from the middle of the string. Move Object 1 closer to the pickup (position 0.15—
see GUI detail below).
8 The low notes are still distorted. You can remedy this by adjusting the Level dial found
to the right of the amplitude envelope. Set a value of –10 dB.