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apply it to filter cutoff,
resonanc
e or pitch
bend.
If you use the
latching
checkbox,
there
is no need to
enter
a
starting
pattern
because
maxWerk
creates
a new one at the start of each loop. The
window's step
mode
indicator
changes
to
read
rdm, but since these
patterns
are not
editable,
the
changing
sets of values
don't
appear
in the display. Part II
describes
in detail these and
more
features
of
the Control A, Control B, and Bend Editors.
1.9 The Transposer
The
Transposer
contains
maxWerk's
pitch-filtering
system. Your
Werk can
change
Key and Scale
automatically
as it makes modal
chord
changes
within both Key and Scale. As a fun
bonus,
while
maxWerk is in play and the
Transposer
is
enabled
and making
chordal
transformations
to
stored
patterns,
your
keyboard
re-maps
itself
according
to Key and Scale as you play, so that all you have to
do to
competently
noodle
a live line over tracks is
repeat
simple
patterns
emotively on the white keys in C.
The
Transposer
has
bar-graph
displays of four
different
sets of data
for 128 bars. The values that you see in the
primary
window of the
Transposer
appear
again in the smaller displays of the Patterns
window
, which is accessible via one of the
secondary-window
buttons
along the
bottom
edge of the
Transposer.
The Patterns
window reflects the state of any 16 bars of Werk that you wish to
bring into focus.
Whenever
it is
opened,
and
whenever
you use the
bar scrolling
function
with
buttons
or key
commands,
the
current
bar
becomes
the first shown in the Patterns display.
A
more
fundamental
form
of
transposit
ion
underlying
these, for
which
there
is no
graphic
display, comes
from
the
Global
Offset
Map, accessed by a
button
at the top of the main
Transposer
window. Here you can shift the root pitch of your Werk and your
MIDI
controller's
input up or down by semitones up to a full octave
from
the
default
C (key
signature
3). You can use it to
create
overall shifts in the
mood
of your piece when all is said and done by
making
further
offsets at any bar. The offset flag
appears
in the
form
of a
semitone
number
following the Key display on the Main
Screen. Global Offsets work
behind
the scenes, along with all the