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and
automatically
moves to the
gate-off
position
. This
mode
is
good for pads and special effects. Be
careful
about
adding
Offset
Note Lines
(described
below) in this
mode,
for they can greatly
increase
the
demands
on your sound
module
for
polyphony
(notes
that can sound at
once).
Experiment
with various gate
times with the
remaining
modes
described
below!
Random
retrig - maxWerk follows all pitch
changes
but decides
at each step
whether
to sustain or
re-trigger
repeating
note
values. The timing of pitch
pattern
changes
is
preserved,
but
there
is variety in the
rhythm
pattern
of the notes.
Alt1 and alt2
notefilters
- The last six
menu
choices are based
on the principle of selectively
triggering
passing or
non-chordal
tones. On
alternating
loops, maxWerk
substitutes
or sustains the
last played triadic tone at each passing tone,
thereby
ignoring
any
passing tones while
preserving
the basic
figure.
Passing tones are
scale steps 2, 4, 6, or 7, pitches that are not part of a triadic chord
built on the Tonic note value 1. The effect of alt1
all-steps
, alt1
changes
, and alt1 random on any loop that contains passing
tones is that a musical
statement
in
chordal
tones is followed by,
and then
alternated
with, a
response
with
added
passing tones.
The
difference
in the alt2
notefilter
set is that maxWerk plays the
unfiltered
figure
first. Obviously, these
modes
can't
enhance
any
step
pattern
of notes that does not
already
include passing tones.
2.5 Loop Magic 2
To be
thorough,
we'll revisit
explanations
of the
pattern
graphics
with
added
detail. The
notes
display
has values that
represent
pitches of any
seven-step
Scale. When you
arrange
these values 0
through
8 in
patterns,
a value of 0 (a
rest)
always causes silence,
whatever
the value in the velocity display below. Values 1
through
7
trigger
Scale notes in the various
modes
of play
described
above,
and their pitches wrap
around
as you transpose the Scale. Value 8
always
triggers
the
independently
transposable
note,
referred
to in
maxWerk as a
(+)Note
. With a
transposition
of 1 set for value 8,
maxWerk
triggers
the
current
Tonic as
though
the step with value 8