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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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the h
armonically
useful ones for you. The user scale available at
value 0 is for the
adventurous,
offering
a
seven-pitch
set of
definable
intervals that you can add as part of your Werk file. You
can
repeat
or
re-order
the pitches in this scale any way you please.
With the
transposing
function
disabled,
you can test the sound of
Scales
from
the Scales window
before
you
enter
new
Transposer
data. If you want to base your Werk
patterns
on one
particular
Scale, be aware that Scales at values 8 and above may not produce
normal Major, Minor,
Diminished or
Augmented
triads on all their
notes, and instead you may
hear
some quirky
chords.
If you are
new to music
theory,
bear
with us a
minute
about
this, and you'll find
out how maxWerk can make many helpful scale
changes
for you.
1.
Tonics
– The values for Tonics and
(+)Notes
you see in the first
two bar
graphs
determine
the
degree
of
transposition
within Key
and Scale that maxWerk applies to Note Editor values. The
pattern
of Tonic shifts
from
bar to bar by itself forms the basis of a scalic or
modal
chord
progression.
Consider
a Basic Loop note line that
includes values 1, 3, and 5. A Tonic
transposition
of 1 makes those
values
trigger
Scale notes in positions of the same
number,
so if the
default
Key is C, as 1's, 3's, and 5's play you
hear
the
root,
the third
and the fifth pitches, or notes C, E, and G.
If we first
hear
a note line
(along
with any notes on
other
enabled
tracks)
based on a Tonic of C, and the Tonic
pattern
then shifts to 5,
the note value at position 1 now
triggers
the fifth note of the
current
Scale. Value 3 now
refers
to the third above that, and so on; so that
1, 3, and 5 values now sound the pitches of the triad on 5. As a
result, we
hear
G
Major
produced
by values 1, 3, and 5. If the
transposition changes
to 7, it moves the pitches to the
seventh
triad
(in the
Major
Scale the
diminished).
Each
transposition
gives us a
valid triad on 1, 3, and 5, and values 2, 4, 6, and 7, when and if they
appear
in the Note Editor, sound the passing tones of the pattern.
When you disable playback of
Transposer
data, the
numeric
keypad
keys 1
through
7 let you make Tonic
changes
over all
patterns
as
they play in tracks
enabled
for
transposing.
Be sure you disable the