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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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Pairs of
arrow-shaped
"Go-to"
bar
buttons
appear
in many edit
windows. Some edit
functions
take effect
beginning
at or only on the
last
"go-to"
bar you
manually
set. To go to any bar quickly, hold an
arrow
button
or one of the co
mmand
keys for bar scrolling, or simply
press one of the
locator buttons
and then
fine-tune
the bar location.
1.5 Automute
In
order
to
offer
a
perspective
of a full Werk, we'll jump right away to
a preview of
Automute
- a
function
that is
normally
not used until
you have
created
a few tracks.
Then
we'll zoom in to the
pattern-
making level.
maxWerk plays looping
patterns
on
thirteen
of its tracks, not
counting
the Melody track, which we will discuss
separately.
With
Automute
active, you can have Basic Loop and Drum tracks either
mute or
continue
playing as they
reach
each new bar. The
information
that
controls
this
appears
for editing in the
Automute
window. The
Automute
track strips are essentially
horizontal
bar
graphs
of 128 bars that have a vertical range of 1, so that each
track stores a value of 0 or 1 for each bar. Values of 1
appear
as
colored
bars in the strip and 0's are
empty,
and the
thirteen
fully
enabled
strips
appear
entirely filled-in in a new file, for the default
state is that all tracks are
enabled
all the time.
Automuting
may be
enabled
or
bypassed
for all tracks at once by
means
of a key
command.
Bear in mind as you
create
track
material
that you'll be
able to
introduce
creative
track
muting
and
interweaving
of
patterns
into your composition in
whatever
way suits your
creative
style.
The first of the individual
Automute
track strip
controls
is a check
(toggle)
box to
temporarily
mute GS
instrument
parts by
means
of
system exclusive MIDI
commands.
For
tracks in GS
mode,
this
provides
a handy
temporary
way to silence parts without
affecting
stored
data, even
though
the
Automute
function
may be
enabled.
You can
enter
Automutes
by
hand,
but two
different
ways of using
the track
label
switch-button
make the job of editing across many
bars easier. A single click of the label brings up a small window