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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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useful for
doubling
the length of a loop, and a rdm
ends-in
variation
that also
alternates
with
normal
passes.
Next to the
direction
menu,
the
note
triggering
modes menu
makes four principal options and six
variations
available for Basic
Loops'
behavior.
Five selections have
quick-access
buttons
above
the
menu.
They
interact
with the settings of the
gate
times slider,
so they are
described
together.
The
modes
of
triggering
are:
Play
changes
mode - maxWerk sends a
note-off
and
triggers
a
new note with each
changed
step value or Tonic
transposition
value. This is the most
"normal"
sounding
monophonic
play mode
for the notes
entered
in the displays,
because
it can
produce
different
note lengths as well as rests.
These
are all multiples of
the chosen step length if the
default
gate time setting
(off)
is used.
In this mode,
repeating
note values that wrap
around
to the start
of the loop without any
transposition
sustain without
retriggering.
You can make a
persistent
drone
sound by
entering
a single
value across your loop without any rests and disabling the
"transpose"
function. Leave the gate times slider set to its default
'off'
for
normal
play-changes
mode.
A
reddish
slider indicates that
gate times are being
imposed,
and the
green
setting indicates
randomizing.
These
effects mask the tied notes in
play-changes
mode
and s
horten
the
durations
of
single-step
notes.
Play all
steps
mode - maxWerk sends a
note-off
and
triggers
a
new note with each step that is not a rest. Step
resolution
as well
as the
number
of included rests
greatly
affects the result of this
setting, which is
particularly
good for
rhythmic
figures.
Play-all-
steps
mode
works well with gate times, for they affect all steps
and
produce
staccato
patterns.
Shorten
the gate times setting to
decrease
step
durations.
The fewer loop steps
there
are, the finer
the available gate
resolution
will be as shown by the slider. A full
left setting turns it
green
and
produces
randomized
gate
times.
Sustain
groups
mode - new notes are held until the next note
value 0 or the end of the loop,
whichever
occurs first.
Then
they
are cut off
after
the
duration
of any
sustain-on-mute
set for the
track. When you pick this
mode,
the gate times slider turns gray