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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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When maxWerk is not in play and the
Arpeggiator
is
enabled,
both
presses
and
releases
of the left hand keys
trigger
two-octave
chordal
tone sets. The
(+)Note-triggering
black keys,
however,
remove
their
changed
chordal
values and
restore
the
(+)Note
to the
Tonic value when you
release
them.
When you select the
keyboard
mapping
mode
called
global
key
shifts
in the Global Setup window, the
stored
split point does not
apply.
Instead,
maxWerk
enables
all
controller
keys to make simple
chromatic
transpositions
that are suitable for
certain
musical styles.
The two lower letter rows of your
computer's
QWERTY
keyboard
are always in polyphonic MIDI note entry
mode
in
maxWerk.
They
cover two and a half
adjustable
octaves of notes in the
current
Scale, so that you can use the
program
without a MIDI
controller
keyboard.
They
respond
to the octave
adjustment
found
in the
Noodle and Note Editor windows, and they are not
affected
by the
MIDI
keyboard
split point.
When
Automute
is
disabled,
you can selectively mute
and
enable
tracks and see their status by
means
of the blue LED's on the Main
Screen.
Mute
and
solo
switches
for the track you are editing are
also in the lower section of the Note and Drum Editor windows.
Notice that soloing in an Editor window
temporarily
overrides
automuting
of the track. The positions you set for the pan and
volume knobs on the Main Screen
become
the
default
values when
these
controls
automatically
reset and when you save your Werk.
You will see the
tempo-setting
slider
change
color
from
reddish
to
green
when you
enable Performance
mode.
This
reminder
tells you
that any
Tempo
map saved with the Werk is now in effect. Pressing
the
Tempos
button
next to the slider brings up the
Tempo
Map
window
. Here you can store
changes
to the
beats-per-minute
values
transmitted
to
maxWerk's
timing
engine
with each passing
bar. When you take maxWerk out of
Performance
mode,
it takes the
Tempo
Map out of service. While midifiles are being
prepared,
tempo
is
temporarily
set to a
constant
60 or 120 beats per minute
according
to a Global Setup
parameter,
for the sake of
accurate
event timing for file
export.