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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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The Phrase
generator
menu
offers
new
starting
patterns
at one of
four levels of complexity on a press of the
generate
button.
This
creative
assistant and some
more
Block outp
ut-modifying
features
in the main Melody Editor window are
described
in Part II.
1.11 The Block Map
You can
create
up to five
different
four-bar
melodies
in the
manner
described
above,
and you can build each on a
different
Phrase or
on
different
combinat
ions of
patterns
applied to copies of the same
Phrase. While a Block is up to four bars long, you
don't
have to play
any Block all the way
through,
or even have note data
present
in all
bars of the Block. In fact, you can
create
a melody using a
pattern
consisting of
portions
read
from
the start of each of five Blocks. This
versatility is possible
because
you can make a
block
map that lets
you play any Block
from
its
beginning
(and
only
from
its
beginning),
starting
at any bar in the Werk.
A Block's
number
from
1
through
5 can be
stored
at each bar of the
Map, which looks like yet
another
bar
graph.
When a set of Block
values is
stored
and
subsequently
enabled,
maxWerk
triggers
a new
Block with every
changed
value, and silences Melody when
there
is
a Block value 0,
regardless
of the lengths of the
patterns
stored
in
the Blocks. When the same Block
number
is
entered
for
more
than
four bars in a row, that Block will
repeat
from
the
beginning;
but
when a Block's value
changes
after
three
bars, for
example,
you will
hear
only one of its
combined
direction
and
inversion
patterns
played and half of the next
before
new notes are
read
from
a
different
Block. If part of a Block in play has no
entered
notes,
there
is silence while the empty steps pass.
Melody Blocks can be
further
embellished
in the main Editor,
Phrases, and Melody Sound windows. To preview
information
from
Part II: velocities can
randomly
walk within a
range
you can set for
each
half-bar,
and
there
are options for
automatic
modulation
or
aftertouch.
The main Melody window has
checkboxes
for each
Block that let you disable
transposing
or add various kinds of
harmony
lines.
There
are also settings for octave
adjustments
and
for the delay of all
harmony
lines by
16th-note
steps.