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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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There
are sets of
arrow-buttons
above and beside the Note Editor
displays that let you
rotate
their
contents
one step at a time. The
horizontal
step
rotator
buttons
have a
menu
letting you shift
values in all four displays at once (the
default)
or just one at a time.
The vertical
value
rotator
buttons
do not affect notes and
velocities of 0, so that rests
already
entered
are not
disturbed.
Instead,
notes and
note-producing
velocities
greater
than 0
rotate
among
values 1
through
8. Similar value
rotator
buttons
(that
do not
mask value 0) also
appear
in the Control and Bend windows.
Under the four bar
graph
displays on the right side of the window
there
is a field of settings labeled
generate
notes
and
velocities
.
These
let you build a loop in several ways
other
than the direct
method
of clicking directly on the displays and
amending
your edits
as you listen to the result. You can
jump-start
the
creative
process
with a
generated
idea. After you choose
from
the
accompanying
pattern
type
menu and adjust the
note
density
menu setting to
your liking, a
button
press fills the loop with a
pattern
of notes and
rests for your
consideration.
You can
generate
alternative
patterns
of
accompanying
velocities for existing notes. Octave and wrap step
data
remains
unchanged
through
both of these
procedures.
To lend
interesting
dynamics when the loop is in
play-all-steps
mode,
you
can have new
independently
generated
velocities
appear
in
ascending
and
descending
stair-step
patterns,
covering
the full
range
of
random-value
groups
.
As an
alternative
approach
to loop making for lovers of techno
styling and
arpeggiation,
you can use the
repeat
a series
buttons
to
conveniently
enter
patterns
of notes, velocities, octaves, or wrap
steps. maxWerk
automatically
copies
entered
values
beginning
with
step 1
through
a
dialog-entered
number,
and
repeat-e
nters the set
to fill the
pattern
without
changing
the
accompanying
data types.
There
are four
menu
settings located
between
the note and velocity
displays that
together
set up
patterns
to
mutate
. They accomplish
this by having maxWerk
randomly
swap two adjacent note and
velocity steps in
synchrony
each time a
certain
number
of bars
passes, while octave and wrap step data
remains
unchanged.
You
can
hear
these
mutation
swaps, but you won't see them
reflected
in