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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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sound-shaping,
sending
values just
ahead
of note
information
to
create
distinct
rhythmic
changes
or
stepped
effects.
The Control and Bend windows differ
from
the main Note Editor in
that once you
enter
values, to have them
transmit
you must enable
MIDI
output
via the
activation
menu in the right
margin
of the
display. This lets you block and unblock
controller
and bend effects
while you
consider
patch selections. You can invert
transmit
ted
values
here
too, and maxWerk
remembers
the activation setting.
It's best not to move
Controller
and Bend windows
because
they
open
positioned
over the Note Editor on your
computer
screen,
so
you can
conveniently
compare
their
patterns
against your pa
ttern
of
notes. While you can draw in values by
hand,
both Control Editors
and the Bend Editor
offer
generated
patterns
of
sawtooth,
sine,
pulse,
triangle,
or
either
of two
parabolic
curves. You can
auto-
generate
one to four
cycles
of any of these
waveform
s, and you
can compress values on
entry.
As an
alternative
approach,
you can
quickly
generate
repeating
sequences
by
entering
one instance of
the
desired
set
beginning
at step 1. Press the
button
labeled repeat
a series, and
enter
the
number
of steps to be
repeated
into the
dialog box
presented.
You'll find the same
function
available for
each of the displays in the Note and Drum Editor windows.
You can shift
entered
values up or down all at once by using the
vertical arrow
buttons
to the right of the displays. When you adjust
patterns
vertically, all values
0-127
wrap
around
in the display.
Instead
of a
function
to
horizontally
rotate
displayed values,
there
is
a
control
to set the
starting
step
of the displayed
sequence.
Finally,
using the
direction
optio
ns menu you can
control
response
to
loop play
direction
changes
called for by the Note Editor.
The
randomize/latch
button
always
engages
step-sync
mode.
When you use the
randomizing
function,
maxWerk
generates
a
single set of
step-synced
random
values that you can keep or edit.
When you check the
random-latch
checkbox,
maxWerk
generates
a new set of step values each time the loop
repeats.
This dynamic
sample-and-hold
style
function
is
particularly
interesting
when you