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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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2.3 User Scales
We have seen how various
scales
, also called
modes
or pitch sets,
are available for
audition
in the Scales window so long as the
Transposer
is not
overriding
your setting, and how the
enabled
Transposer
calls on one of the
stored
scale sets at each bar. An
edit
user scale
button
lets you
compare,
enter,
and store a custom
Scale for your Werk by
auditioning
and
entering
seven
chromatic
pitches
from
the set of twelve. maxWerk calls on the Werk's User
Scale
information
at every
stored
Transposer
Scale value of 0.
Because the musical
structure
of maxWerk
depends
upon triadic
interval
harmonies,
if you make
chordal
changes
based simply on
transpositions
of the Tonic, any
generated
note pa
tterns,
Melody
Phrases, and
Improv
patterns
which
refer
to
unusual
or
user-
created
Scales may
produce
more
dissonances
than those based
on the Scales
numbered
1
through
7. Note too that in
order
to make
pentatonic
music, you can start
from
either
a
Major
or
Natural-Minor
Scale, and simply avoid the use of steps 4 and 7 when you
create
step
patterns
and when you
transpose
Tonics or
(+)Notes.
2.4 Loop Magic 1
As
you've
seen, the displays
referred
to
throughout
this Guide are
vertical bar
graphs
that
represent
data
patterns
read
sequentially
in
a
repeating
fashion,
into which you can place values with the
mouse.
There
are four such
editable
displays in the Note Editor, two
in the Drum Editor, and one in each of the Control and Bend
windows.
Resetting note data to
default
values is
differentiated
by
parameter
groups
for
convenience,
and this does not affect the loop's
number
of bars or step
resolution.
At the top right
corner
of the loop editing
windows
there
is a clear all
notes
button.
In the Offset Note Lines
section, each of the
three
lines has its own
clear-button
whose color
reflects the
presence
of settings for that line, and
others
to reset all
routings
and velocities. Use the clear all 3
offsets
button
to
restore