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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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II. maxWerk In Depth
We have seen that
maxWerk's
eleven Basic
Loops
and two Drum
Loops
can play
patterns
up to four bars long. Add to these the
three
special-purpose
tracks -
Melody
,
automatic
Improv, and the
Noodle
track for
accompanying
live play, and maxWerk gives you
sixteen MIDI
channels'
worth of
creative
engines.
There
is a bonus
Idea layer that you can mix in with any track to make Werkmusic.
2.1 Main Settings
After you have
customized
Global Setup and Noodle settings upon
getting
started
with maxWerk, you'll find the thru MIDI
destination
automatically
switching as you move
between
tracks. An
indicator
in
the
upper
left section of the Main Screen shows the
current
target
instrument
and MIDI
channel.
Switching takes place
because
the
auto-thru
chec
kbox
is
enabled
by
default.
As we have seen in Part
I,
from
the
MIDI-thru
heading
in the
menubar
you can manually
change
the MIDI
target,
and if you disable the
auto-thru
checkbox,
incoming
notes and
other
information
remain
directed
to the track
instrument/channel
last edited or selected for thru play.
On the Main Screen, the KB map
checkbox
appears
for the benefit
of those who
aren't
accomplished
keyboardists.
Checked, it enables
one of two
note
mapping
modes chosen in the Global Setup
window. Both allow very
non-traditional
keyboarding
behavior.
When
chords
&
scales
is
selected,
above an
adjustable
split point the
pitches of the
currently
selected Key and Scale, having been
adjusted
by any Global
Offset(s),
lock to the set of white keys
starting
on C, and the black keys are silent. You can use the white
keys above the split point for melodic lead line playing while you
trigger
Tonic
transposing
from
the
remaining
white keys. The black
keys in the
left-hand
group
trigger
(+)Notes
as you press
them,
and
remove
those
(+)Notes
when they are
released.
Starting at C#, the
scale step
(+)Notes
triggered
by black keys are 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.