Operation Manual

2.4 Tutorial 4 Playing with Acoustic Objects 46
different velocities and note how the sound of the plate changes as the excitation signal varies. In
this configuration, the higher the velocity the higher the strength of the impact and the stiffer the
mallet.
Step 4: Add a second plate
Description
In many acoustic instruments, certain elements are used as passive resonators to amplify certain
components of the sound. They are called sympathetic resonators. We will now add a second Plate
which will be connected to the output of the first one. We will keep the geometry of this second
plate fixed so that it will have a different behavior depending on the note played on the keyboard.
Construction
• Select and delete the wire linking the Plate and the Volume module.
• Select a second Plate from the Browser
• Select a Mix2 module from the Mixer section.
• Select a second Volume module.
• Pull a wire between the output of the first Plate and the second input of the second Plate and
the input of the new Volume module.
• Pull a wire between the second Plate module and the first input of the Mix2 module.
• Pull a wire between the new Volume and the second input of the Mix2 module.
• Pull a wire between the Constant module and the first input of the second Plate.
• Connect together the Mix2 module and the remaining Volume module.
Figure 24: Tutorial 4, step 4