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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
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2.9 The Idea Track
An
alternative
to
keyboard
step entry that you can use to help
create
Basic and Drum Loops or Melody Phrases is the live-
recorded,
no-frills Idea track. This is a
non-editable
midifile
recorder
and player of
non-transposing
sequences
that can serve as a
simple
motif-entering
guide. Once you have
armed
this track for
recording,
maxWerk will
capture
live MIDI input
beginning
at the
designated
bar
number.
Subsequent
recordings
clear and
overwrite
material
already
present.
Your Idea plays back with
adjustable
tempo
to the
instrument
selected in the Idea window,
layered
with
any MIDI
messages
that this
device/channel
already
receives.
You
can quickly switch off Idea playback or
ready
it for
automatic
triggering
by
means
of
checkboxes
in the Note Editor and Melody
Phrase windows, making it
unnecessary
to revisit the Idea window
for this
purpose.
Once you have
captured
an Idea of any
length,
you can set it to play
starting
at any bar
number
you wish. If you set maxWerk to loop a
certain
selection of bars that includes the set
starting
bar, you'll hear
your Idea play
repeat
edly along with any
stored
loop or Melody
information.
You might even use a
longer
Idea track to add an
unstructured
part to your finished Werk. However, the Idea track is
not
recorded
into your Werk midifile, nor is it saved as part of a
Werk file. Instead, you can save any
number
of Ideas as midifiles,
bearing
in mind that in maxWerk you can play only one at a time.
Once you
abandon
an Idea
recording
by switching off playback and
subsequently
quit
maxWerk,
the
material
in it is lost unless you have
saved it as a midifile. Ideas
cannot
have
tempo,
notes or any
other
elements
changed
after
they are
recorded,
but you can of course
import
saved Idea midifiles to
another
application
for
further
work.
2.10 Deeper Drums
The d1
and
d2 drum
buttons
in the top right Main Screen panel
open an
editor
dedicated
to the two Drum
Loops.
Its layout bears
some similarities to the Basic
Loops'
Note Editor, but an obvious