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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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--> <--
<-- <--
<-- -->
To give an
example,
the second
menu
choice --> <--
means
that
when bars 3 and 4 of the
four-bar
Block
repeat
the seed Phrase, a
contrasting
pitch
order
direction
is
imposed
and
layered
over any
pre-existing
edits. This
function
is notably
different
from
the
"reversing"
direction
option
found
in Basic
Loops,
in which the
original step
sequence
is simply
read
backwards.
Here, the pitch
order
reverses
but the original
pattern
of note
durations
and rests is
preserved
for a melodically
more
useful result.
The
menu
for
chordal
tone
variation
offers
these choices:
== ==
== var
var var
var ==
When you choose the second
menu
item, for
example,
which reads
== var, the symbol == tells you that the
Phrase's
chordal
tones
remain
as originally
entered
in the first half of the Block, bars 1 and
2. In Block View you will see that bars 3 and 4 have
changed,
and
now Scale note positions…
1-2-3-4-5-6-7
…are
inverted
to
1-6-5-4-3-2-7
…in the second
expression
of the Phrase This
creates
a pleasing
and
harmonically
compatible
alternate
figure
as thirds and fifths
swap along with their passing tones, while the
root,
fourths
and any
seventh
steps
remain
the same.
Another
notable
difference
here
is
that this type of tonal
inversion
around
a
mid-point
does not result in
any
chordal
alteration,
as does the
function
invert on alt.
Loops