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35
1.12 Improv
To
round
out this
introductory
description
of
features,
we'll
describe
one
more
specialty track whose settings
become
part of a Werk file
and whose
output
is
recorded
in midifiles.
maxWerk's
Improv player
looks for
inspiration
to your choices
from
source
menus, where you
can select up to four existing Basic Loops
and/or
Melody Phrases.
These
sources
may be
important
motifs in your Werk, or they may
be ones
dedicated
to
Improv.
Improv
can
combine
them with default
new
generated
phrases
or fills.
For
each new musical idea, it picks
sections of
different
step lengths
beginning
from
the starts of its
source
patterns,
and
assembles
these into a new
phrase.
It then
applies
Melody-style
treatments
to
develop
and resolve the
material.
Without asking your
opinion,
Improv
indefatigably
composes
a new
tune
after
a
certain
number
of bars you can set, filtering it
through
a
combination
of
direction
and
inversion
functions.
When you select
busier
source
patterns,
Improv
plays livelier tunes. Using the
style
menu setting, you can stretch these over
additional
bars to
produce
more
moderate
and
relaxed
lines.
Once
enabled,
by
default
Improv
pops up
wherever
it pleases in the
stereo
field.
Improv
has a
resolution
of
sixteenth
notes, and you can
impose a start
delay
in 32nd note
increme
nts. Several
more
play
options similar to those of
other
tracks make
Improv
an
interesting
companion
while you try out
chord
progressions
or simply
noodle.
With
Automute
active, maxWerk can
trigger
a section of
Improv
bars
and silence them for you at selected points for
recording
to a
midifile. The setting for in/out bar
numbers
is in the
performance-
oriented
Automute
window. However,
there
is no telling exactly what
Improv's
note
patterns
will be. Alternatively, you can start up and
discontinue
Improv
manually
during
recording;
on being dismissed,
it holds its last note a little
before
dropping
out
gracefully.
Get
more
insight as to how
Improv
works and its
other
parameters
by
reading
about
the similar, but relatively
more
predictable
and
obedient
Melody track,
under
"More
Melodizing"
in Part II of this Guide.