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Sculpture offers an inexhaustible variety of naturalistic sounds, based on component modeling technology, seamlessly integrated into the Logic Pro 7 software. It includes many sounds sought-after by composers, such as string, flute and pad sounds. Sharp percussive sounds, such as xylophones for example, are easily created. Given this broad scope for sound creation, Sculpture proves itself a worthwhile resource for unconventional sound design as well.
String Theory
Although other Logic Pro 7 instruments are partially based on component modeling technology as well, Sculpture provides a comprehensive model of a vibrating string or bar without the need for samples of a real instrument. As a result, its sounds retain the natural character and expressiveness of a real instrument, even if the sound's created virtually.
More Variables, More Variety
You can achieve further tweaks to the sound with two additional objects that can disturb the vibration. For these objects, the position and strength of the disturbance remain variable. In contrast to classical synthesizer parameters, changes in Sculpture result in sounds that have far more complex sonic details. A change to a single object parameter may result in a new timbre, dynamics and harmonics.
Familiar Interface
Beyond specific Component Modeling parameters, Sculpture offers the classic ADSR envelope of traditional analog synthesizers as well. This tool provides instant access to conventional parameters that most users know well. You can create the classic fine tuning of sounds with Sculpture’s 3 band EQ.
External Control
Another part of the modulation section offers two control envelopes for use as standard envelopes, where any envelope shape can be drawn. You can also assign external controller hardware to the envelope’s controllers allowing recording, playback and modification of incoming MIDI events interpreted as an envelope. You can even loop the envelopes you’ve recorded or drawn.
Surrender To The Power
Used for over 20 morphable parameters, users find Morph Pad as the most powerful way of creating complex modulation effects. Users can find the values of these parameters indicated in orange on the user interface and assign five parameters to the Morph Pad at one time. Move the morph point in the Morph Pad and you change the values of multiple parameters simultaneously. Likewise, users can further modify or loop these movements.
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Logic Pro 7 Sound Generation
Sculpture Audio Player
Mac Maestro
Audio artists have always sought after component modeling, but rarely has the technogloy been put into practice since it required expensive, proprietary hardware. Now the technology enjoys something of a renaissance thanks to the resources offered by today’s native workstations. Sculpture brings the technology to your Macintosh as a Logic Pro 7 instrument. Powerful sound generation features and optimal control facilities place Sculpture at the vanguard of modern component modeling technology.
Materials Engineer
The sophisticated algorithm at the core of Sculpture combines different models of vibrating natural material: It can be glass, steel, nylon or wood — or a mixture of all of them. You can even morph between them, starting with a nylon string in the attack phase of the sound and then decaying to the wood or metal bar of a xylophone. A second element of the algorithm describes the way the vibration is initiated. This means that you have the choice between a vibration that is bowed, plucked or blown, or variations of these. You can also determine where the pick-up is positioned.
One Word: Res
Sculpture’s effect section also offers a stereo delay that features all traditional parameters plus an X/Y-Pad for Spread and Groove. The Stereo Delay can be synchronized to the song tempo with a click on the sync button. The Multimode Filter houses Highpass, Lowpass, Peak, Notch and Bandpass Filters. The brilliance of the Filter is controlled with the Cutoff parameter. Resonance emphasizes the frequencies determined by the Cutoff value.
Humanize With Chaos
Faithful emulation of natural string sounds requires use of modulations, such as Vibrato, to deliver convincing results. Sculpture provides an extensive array of different methods for generating this and other modulations, including; two assignable LFOs, a fixed LFO for Vibrato, two Jitter generators that add random variations with an adjustable bandwidth and two Randomizers that only change values at note on.
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