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• Click-hold on the Stereo Pickup dial, and drag upwards until the 10.30/1.30 positions
are reached.
• Set the Level Limiter to both.
• Save Setting as… with a new name.
We encourage you to set up your own modulations for this sound. The most common
thing that springs to mind is the introduction of vibrato into the sound after a short
period.
The creation of higher pitched solo string instruments is much the same as the
example above but special attention must be given to ALL Keyscaling parameters.
The Body EQ also has a large bearing on the upper octaves, so take care with its
parameters.
Setting Bonus:
Simply change Object 1’s Type to “Pick”, and you’ll have a round and rubbery synth bass
sound in the lower octaves, and a passable “harp” across the rest of the keyboard.
Synthesizers
One of Sculpture’s great strengths is the creation of endlessly evolving pad and
atmospheric sounds. It can also easily do fat synth basses (which you hopefully
discovered while following the “Basses” section, on page 416), powerful leads and other
types of typical synthesizer sounds.
Sculpture has an advantage over traditional synthesizers as its core synthesis engine
produces a wider variety of basic tones, and these tones have an “organic” quality and
richness to them.
Basic Pad
• Load your “plain vanilla” patch.
• Set the Voices parameter to 16.
• Set Object 1’s Type to Bow.
• Set Object 2’s Type to Bow Wide.
• Grab the Material Pad ball, and position it at the extreme left of the Pad, exactly
halfway between the top/bottom—on the “Material” line.
• Play a “C” chord (middle “C”), and you’ll hear a pad sound.
• Move Pickup A to a position around 0.75, and the pad will become a little sweeter.
• Move Object 1’s position to a value of 0.84.
• Move Object 2’s position to a value of 0.34.
• As a final step, click on the Points icon that features five dots in the Morph Pad
section.
• Set the “Int” slider in the Morph Pad Randomize section to a value of say 25%.
• Click once on the Morph “Rnd” button.
• Save Setting as… with a new name—say “vanilla_pad”.