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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
42
repeats
of the
pattern
to fill
added
bars. (Use the
editor's
'repeat
a
series'
function
in the
generator
panel to
copy-paste
patterns
within
one
bar.)
You can
overwrite
or build a
pattern
from
scratch using
the uniform time
interval
edits
menu-and-button
interface.
Be
careful
how you
order
operations,
so you
don't
lose
entered
data!
You can adjust the
starting
step
for any loop by using the
horizontal
display
rotator
buttons
if you want to
re-align
the loop's
contents
in time without revising
entered
data. To do so, set a step
number
and leave the start mode menu set to the on every
loop
default.
The second
menu
item
rotating
starts tells maxWerk to
begin playing the loop one step
further
into the
pattern
with each
repetition.
You might set a
percussive
sound to
rotate
its start point
against a
straightforwardly
repeating
Drum
Loop.
Since Note as well
as Control and Bend
patterns
have
independently
adjustable
starting
steps, you can
contrive
interactions
between
them that are
unpredictable
and
interesting.
When you choose random starts,
whatever
the
number
of bars, maxWerk starts each loop
from
one
of several musically useful
Meter
counts
(ones
that mark
quarter-
note
segments)
in the first loop bar. This has the effect of shifting
the
pattern
unpredictably
in
relation
to your
other
tracks. When you
choose the second or third
menu
items, the
starting
step displayed
is reset to 1. The
three
remaining
menu
items let you
incorporate
into any of the above start
modes
some random
ratchets,
or
occasional
stuttered
note-starts.
In the lower
area
of the Note Editor, the
direction
menu settings
forward,
backward
, and reversing
accomplish
the obvious. The
alt-scrambles
setting follows the original note
duration
pattern
and
plays loops in the
forward
direction,
but at the start of every second
bar it
re-shuffles
the pitches
triggered
by values 1
through
7,
excluding the
independent
value 8. In
other
words, the
rhythm
of
notes and rests
remains
the same, but the original pitches
change
order.
This setting can
produce
a variety of
interesting
results,
particularly
with
three-bar
loops,
depending
on the step values
included in your
pattern
and the
durations
of notes.
More
direction
menu
items are random and the
interestingly
repeating
ends-
inward.
This one is followed by an alt
ends-in
variation,
which is