Sculpture Chime Efx a la Cygnus X-1?

I am trying to build a solid hammered orchestra chime sound through Sculpture, something one might hear in an orchestra. Might you have suggestions? Or suggestions where or how I can get that type of rich metallic hammered chime?
The sound I seek reminds me of Rush-Farewell to Kings-Cygnus X-1, just without the looped effect...
Some of you Rush heads might remember that, eh?

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1. Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405
2. Reset SMC.     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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So, I bought a Mac mini the other day- an "open box" item from Best Buy (Mid 2011, i5 processor, 2GB of RAM running 10.8)
Anyhow, it was working fine all day, i had transfered all my itunes library over to the new Mac mini from my MacBook Pro, and put the programs I wanted onto the mac mini. (Including plug-ins etc.) It was working fine, even with 2GB of RAM.
Anyhow, it started to get kind of sluggish, so, I closed all the programs (I assumed this was because it has 2GB of RAM, and I had been pushing it pretty hard all day), and checkd "About this MAC" Low and behold, it said only one RAM card was in, and it was a 1GB card. Well, that explains the eventual sluggishness. Further though, I think it means that once of the RAM slots is messed up.
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So, I've got a few issues going on, and an appointment at the Apple Store in Providence, RI today at 7:45 PM.
But, does anyone know anything about any of these issues? So I may be able to try to tackle some of them on my own before going in? Or, what to expect from the Apple store?
Thanks guys- any help is greatly appreciated!
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Hi,
my guess is the people at Best Buy may have broken it?)
My guess is since it was Open Box, somebody bought it, broke it trying to replace RAM, then returned it as they no longer wanted it.
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), if that doesn't work, try a Verbose boot, CMD+v
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Hi skippy2012trev,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you updated your Apple Id and password but now you are being prompted for the old information in iCloud. You are on the right track by changing the Apple ID back to the previous email address temporarily so that you can sign out. You should not need to verify the email address. After you edit the Apple ID back to the old email address and then sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, edit the Apple ID back to the address you would currently like to use. There is no need to change the password again, only the email address, unless you prefer to update the password again.
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Demitrios,
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Hi all --
I've seen similar posts (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12170891&#12170891) but thought I'd start a new one, mainly because I haven't heard anyone mention the startup chime.
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I'm not thrilled about giving Apple any more money for another Mini, but I'm heavily invested in Logic Studio so I don't have much of a choice of platform.
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Thanks.
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