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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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progress
command
restor
es your sound
generating
setup to match
the
current
state, saved or
unsaved,
of
maxWerk's
MIDI
message-
based settings and
patches,
according
to the Global Setup. Revert
to last save lets you go back to your
last-stored
set of
information.
The Commands menu simply lets you bring up an
important
reference
list in the Key Commands
window
.
Typing
[shift-k] does
the same. The Key
Commands
Reference
at the end of this Guide
describes
each in detail. Since
keystroke
shortcuts
greatly
speed
using
maxWerk,
it's a good idea to
refer
to this list until
reminders
are no
longer
necessary.
The Extras menu
offers Quick
Mutes
, a handy window for
controlling
play of multiple tracks
manually
when
Automute
is not
engaged.
It also has handy
editor
window
buttons
and a key
command.
From
this
menu
you can also open the Idea window for
quick midifile
recording
from
your
controller
keyboard,
which has
access
buttons
in the Note and Drum Editors. The last
menu
item
brings up a
complete
Werk text
Leadsheet
. Read
more
about
the
Idea track in Part II, and
about
the
Leadsheet
in the closing section
"Werk Files".
1.3 The Main Screen
Music is
comprised
of time
segments
or
measures,
and we'll call
them bars for brevity of labeling. maxWerk can store data for up to
128 bars. An
important
first decision in
composition
is how many
eighth-note
beats or counts you want in a bar, and
maxWerk's
Meter
can be set at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 12 beats. You can make
your
desired
choice in the meter menu in the
upper
left section of
the Main Screen, which
defaults
to 8
eighth-counts.
Meter
governs
the
eighth-note
click of the
metronome,
which is
provided
purely for
guidance
as you
enter
data while listening to your tracks, and which
you can switch in and out with a key
command.
Meter
also
determines
the a
utomatically
computed
step
resolution
of two
special-purpose
tracks. One of these is the Melody line, and the
other
is
Improv,
where maxWerk
"expresses
itself" given
constraints
that you can
impose.
We won't cover
everything
now
about
how