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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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Transposer
before
you try out
real-time
transpos
ing.
Otherwise,
you
will find that
stored
values
override
your input at the start of each
bar. The
spacebar
toggles the timing
engine
that stops and starts
play. You can stop and reset the whole Werk with the left
arrow
key,
at the same time
restoring
both
forms
of scalic
transposition
to their
default
value 1.
Both? Yes, the
transposition
type we
describe
here
last derives from
the data you see in the second display of the
Transposer
and
Patterns windows, and
operates
in
tandem
with Tonic
transposition:
2.
(+)Notes
- The word
(+)Note
is
read
aloud as
“plus-note”
or
“added-note”,
and is
maxWerk's
term
for
adding
a
fourth
chordal
tone to one of the simple triads. The second
Transposer
display
specifies the
variable
Scale step you
hear
whenever
maxWerk
encounters
a value of 8 in the Note Editor. It lets you add a
fourth
pitch to the Scale triad
created
by values 1, 3, and 5 to
create
different
qualities of
chords.
A Tonic 1
chord
might have a 9th
added
to it (the second scale pitch) by
means
of a (+)Note
transposition
of 2 at the bar in
question.
If the Tonic value in display
1 stays the same, but the new bar has a
(+)Note
value of 6, we hear
the same Tonic triad with an
added
sixth (an A if
we're
using the C
Major
Scale)
wherever
a
pattern
value
appears
at 8. When you first
experiment
with this, you will notice that the seven possible (+)Notes
follow (i.e. are shifted to
match)
the Tonics when you press keys 1
through
7, but they
change
independently
when you press the Q-W-
E-R-T-Y-U
keys. If you are Werking within a
certain
scale, that is to
say, modally, you can leave
(+)Notes
alone, or you can use them to
make a slow
melody,
devoting
a
pattern
or pad to heavily
feature
value 8, and using Tonic
transpositions
to highlight this
independent
chordal
movement.
To
experiment
with
transpositions,
you can use the Patterns window
to
create
16-bar
transposition
sequences
in bar
graph
form.
Quick-
chord
buttons
in this window use the
dedicated
arpeggiator
to
audition
Tonic and
(+)Note
changes
for modal
composing.
Note that
you can
fine-tune
the
behavior
of the
arpeggiator
if you toggle the
combined
control
and window
button
labeled arp
settings
in the top
right
corner
of the main
Transposer
window. Two
horizontal
scroll