Logic Pro 7

Space Designer

Space Designer is real-time convolution reverb plugin which primary good for sounddesign but for good for general process.

One of the biggest challenges in the audio industry, creating a good sounding, natural appearing reverb doesn’t come easy. Although applying high-end reverb previously meant using weighty, expensive hardware, you’ll find the best reverb right in your Logic mixer. Describing it in a sober way, reverb means fitting a sound with spatial characteristics. But with the Logic reverbs, you crown them with a noble touch

The real-time convolution process of Space Designer, Logic Pro 7’s high-end reverb plug-in, makes it possible to produce a reverb virtually indistinguishable from that of a real room or hall. Space Designer’s real-time calculation process merges the input signal with a reverberation sample — the impulse response (IR) — taken from any acoustic space such as a room, hall or cathedral. The result sounds as if the input signal had actually been recorded directly in the sampled room. The reverb can be further shaped via Space Designer’s comprehensive parameter set. Space Designer ships with a library of over 1,000 impulse responses. These include real rooms and halls, as well as legendary classic and contemporary reverb units. You can also record your own impulse responses

The ability to create and edit customized convolution reverbs sets Space Designer apart. In addition to sampled reverbs, Space Designer features a unique method for the creation of high-quality synthetic reverbs, through the use of specially designed envelopes. You’ll find the resulting reverbs dense and smooth, perfect for complementing your mix without needing to massively boost effect levels.

Regardless of whether you use IR samples or create your own synthetic reverbs, the sound can be quickly customized with Space Designer’s innovative volume, filter, and density envelopes. Model smooth envelope shapes onscreen with ease. You’ll also find the 6- or 12-dB low pass, band pass or high pass filters equally suited for fine-tuning your reverb sound or for creating experimental sound effects. As with all Logic Pro 7 plug-ins, Space Designer supports sample rates up to 192 kHz. The intuitive hands-on graphical user interface, the ability to create stunningly realistic reverbs using IR samples and the unique reverb synthesis facilities make Space Designer a highly professional tool perfect for any sound design or music production situation.

Sculpture

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.

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.

Ultrabeat

Feature-rich drum synthesizer UltraBeat provides everything you need to create totally new beats or manipulate samples of natural sounds, making it the instrument of choice for all producers and remixers searching for an intuitive, flexible and sonically exciting way to create drum loops. A natural progression from the drum machines of the early eighties, sonically, this software instrument will become an indespensible tool whether you’re working in Techno, House, Hip-Hop or derivative genres

Analog And Then Some
UltraBeat’s step sequencer captures the feel of analog, with the same intuitive interface popularized in the early 80s. Ultrabeat expands on the concept by providing deep control of instrument parameters. Seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro 7, the step sequencer of Ultrabeat always syncs to the clock. UltraBeat offers 24 drum voices and one voice that you can play chromatically, making it ideal for bass lines. This approach ensures that UltraBeat loops always remain diverse, lively and interesting, so you —and your fans — will never become bored.

Enough To Go All Night
Beyond the sheer variety offered by the tone generation system, the sequencing facilities are outstanding for an electronic percussion instrument — whether software or hardware. Each sequence can hold up to 32 steps plus further information on trigger events and parameter changes. The swing parameter adjusts shuffle intensity. Accent increases the output volume of all drum voices for a particular step. The sequencer can save 24 patterns, comprised of the sequencer and tone generation data of all 25 voice modules, allowing you to record different loops in the same instrument.

Beat Generation
A rich palette of effects, filters and EQs lets you edit voices with extreme precision, from slight corrections of the tonal character to radical changes. The overdrive section features a distortion and bit crusher. Generally, these types of effects make the sound more aggressive and maximize the tension of the mix. UltraBeat’s overdrive provides the best results when processing percussive sounds. The multimode filter offers four different 12 or 24 dB cutoff modes, providing effective, full-bodied tweaking of lower frequencies. Modulation of filter parameters results in a stylish effect that makes the sound more lively. Ring modulation adds dissonances and overtones to the signals of both oscillators. Depending on settings, the effect is somewhat reminiscent of bell sounds, but it may add noisy characteristics as well. The refined two band parametric EQ precisely sculpts the sonic details of each drum sound.

Spread It Around
The Pan/Spread section positions each drum sound in the stereo field. The Stereo Spread option distributes the sound to the left or right channel, depending on frequency. Pan Modulation lets you vary the stereo position of the voice. You can link this modulation to one of UltraBeat’s multiple modulation sources. Both effects add sonic life and enhance the impression of the stereo mix.

Rhythm Method
Based on two multi-engine oscillators and a noise generator, UltraBeat’s 25 voices ensure enough polyphony for the most complex of loops. One oscillator houses phase oscillation and an FM synthesizer. The second offers phase oscillation, too, as well as sample playback and a physical string model. Create beats from static with the noise generator. So you could take a sample from an old drum machine, then color it with the FM synthesizer and other noise. Ultrabeat provides the most flexible method to get new grooves going.

Break It Down
Two of UltraBeat’s modulation sources are the LFOs. In addition to traditional LFO parameters, a new parameter lets you precisely define the number of LFO cycles — ideal for programming drum flams or anything with rapidly repeating transients. Further modulation sources include the envelopes, two of which you may assign freely. The others are hard wired to filter cutoff and main output volume, but you can assign them in the modulation sources menu as well. The envelopes are one-shot by default, meeting the general needs of drum sound playback. You can control the length of the envelope via MIDI — for cymbal sounds, or even edit envelope Bézier curves. All of it adds up to a rhythm section unmatched in beat permutations.

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