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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
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either stored
or played live)
from
a
transposition
engine
that is
separate
and
independent
of the one
triggered
by values 1
through
7. Although an
8-step
has the
appearance
of being
“larger”
than the
other
values in the display
because
its vertical bar is
longer,
the
Scale pitch value that it
represents
can in fact
change
at each bar,
and it is always
mapped
to
correspond
to one of the
other
seven. A
value 8
together
with a 1, 3, and 5 sounds a
four-note
chord.
If the
description
above was
hard
to follow,
don't
worry
about
it. With
transposing
disabled,
simply
enter
some notes
(perhaps
a stair-
stepped
pattern),
leaving out
8-steps
until we get to "The
Transposer".
With maxWerk in play, try out the key
comma
nds that
make tonic
transpositions
happen.
Do some
experimenting
with
patterns
that contain
primarily
1's, 3's, 5's and 0's
(rests)
to
experience
first-hand
a sense of this
explanation.
It's
maxWerk's
job
to make your
patterns
sound pleasing and musically useful!
A
nine-value
velocities
display
, the second in the Note Editor, has
a
range
of 0
through
8, and
produces
values
from
0
through
127.
To
accomplish
this, steps 1
though
7
trigger
values that maxWerk
randomizes
at the start of each bar within
subgrou
ps of 16, while
value 8
triggers
a
constant
value of 127. As an
example,
a velocity
entered
as value 7 actually floats
around
somewhere
between
112
and 127 as
repetitions
progress,
but value 8 is always the
maximum
127, and the
minimum
value 0 is always velocity zero. The
amount
of offset in turn
rotates
dynamically
between
all tracks at each bar.
When the
velocities
menu in the lower panel is set to normal, the
relationship
of velocities to notes is always just as
depicted
in the
displays. Velocities that cycle
become
offset in time relative to notes
by one
increment
with the start of each new loop. This
creates
a
variable
note-gating
effect when
0-values
are
encountered
in the
notes
pattern
or the velocities
pattern.
In
other
words, you can
devise an int
eraction
of
arpeggiating
notes lined up with velocities
such that
certain
pitch
patterns
kick in and out. Velocities that
rotate
respect
existing rests, but values 1-8
increment
and wrap
around
with each loop
repetition,
and can be used to fade a loop in and out.
Try the 2 ways setting that activates both
functions
at once!