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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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difference
is the much
larger
drum
notes
display
. It is
bordered
on
the right with GS
default
drum
note
numbers
and
accommodates
a
much wider value
range.
Here, step values
represent
actual note
numbers
rather
than scale steps, and a
note
placement
guide
bar
can help you mark the right spots for hits
before
you make
manual
note
entries.
As in the Note Editor, velocities have a set all to
value
menu
with an
associated
refresh
button.
There
is also a
repeat
a
velocity
series
button.
An octave display is not
necessary
for the
Drum
Loops,
and octave wrap step values
aren't
needed
either
since
transposition
does not come into play. To maximize
graphic
display space, the
buttons
to open the Controls A and B, Bend, and
phatWerk
windows are placed along the top edge of the window .
Each Drum track is
monophonic,
and the Drum
pattern
generator
works with only one note (kit
sound)
at a time. Pattern
generating
involves setting
three
menus
below the note display and using the
buttons
in the right
margin
that add and undo beats. Once you have
set the loop length and
number
of steps, the
generator
will decide
how many of up to six beats to give you, or it can try to give you
exactly as many beats as you want, so long as the step locations it
picks are not
already
occupied
by hits. The
default
setting of the
beats
add
menu tells maxWerk to pick a
random number
of hits,
and specific options for one
through
six of them follow. Note that
once you have
entered
some beats into the display,
depending
upon the
number
of available loop steps
remaining,
fewer new hits
may
appear
than you
request.
The second setting, in the
pattern
length
menu, takes effect if your
loop covers
more
than one bar. When you direct new hits to 1 bar
that
repeats,
the
pattern
is identical in all bars of the loop. The
selection across all bars
spreads
out the
generated
pattern
field.
The third, in the
beat
placement
menu,
defaults
to letting new
generated
hits fall on empty
eighth-note
steps,
whatever
the loop
resolution.
The
alternate
selection jogs
placements
by a
sixteenth-
note to add
rhythmic
interest.
When you first make this selection, a
new set of empty slots equal in size to the first
becomes
available.
maxWerk does not pick the
drum
instrument
number
to be
entered
by the Drum
pattern
generator--it's
up to you to select the sound