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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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these work, but using them comes easily once you get a feel for
making looping tracks.
While maxWerk
supports
only one
Meter
choice per Werk, but
tracks based on step
numbers
that are multiples of 6 and 8 counts
are
compatible
in the same Werk, and may be included in either
Meter.
In
other
words, besides steps in multiples of 8, you can
choose step
numbers
of 12, 24, and 48 in an
8-count
Werk.
Similarly, besides 12, 24, and 48, the
number
of steps can be 8, 16,
or 32 in a
6-count
Werk. To
create
a piece that has
changes
in
Meter,
you can save a Werk to
become
a midifile
source,
change
Meter,
edit as
necessary,
and save it again
under
a new
name,
so
that at a later time you can paste
together
music
segments
from
midifiles of each. You should take into
account
that
decreas
ing the
number
of counts may
shorten
some loops and Melody lines such
that notes may be lost, and
increasing
the count will of
course
add
empty steps.
Tempo
in BPM
(beats
per
minute)
is set
from
a Main Screen tempo
slider. You can adjust it by using key c
ommands
as long as you are
not in
Performance
mode,
which
refers
to a
Tempo
Map. Next to the
Tempo
slider is the
tempo
map
button
, which is
described
fully in
the "Main Settings" section of Part II. Briefly, the
Tempo
Map takes
effect when you
engage
Perfo
rmance
mode
and allows a
tempo
change
at each bar. When you open Werk file, the
Tempo
setting
saved for bar 1
appears
as the
default.
The
round
play status
indicator
below the
Tempo
indicator
is also a
start/stop
button
,
though
it's easiest to use the sp
acebar
to toggle
play. Play always starts at the
beginning
of the next bar
after
the
one that was in play when it was
stopped.
By
means
of a key
command
you can switch playback
from
full
tempo to
half-timed
while editing. This lets you think
about
exact note positions if, for
example,
you are working with a
higher
resolution
pattern
that has a
swing feel.
Below the
play-status
section of the
information
panel
there
is a
bank of
function
switch-buttons
that have key
command
equivalents.
These
always reflect the status of their
respective