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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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before
copying or
importing
data, as these
changes
overwrite
destination
data and can't be
undone!
2.14 More Melodizing
We have seen that
melodies
have
16th-note
resolution,
and
therefore
global
Meter
affects the total
number
of steps in Melody
Phrases and Blocks.
From
2-bar
seed
phrase
buttons
located at
the top of the Melody window you can bring up a second
zoom-in
window that lies over it. Here you can
compose
melodies
that use a
two-bar
motif or Phrase as
source
material
for each
four-bar
Block.
In the Phrases window is a smaller
non-editable
representation
of
the full Block you are editing, labeled
block
view.
Changes
are
immediately
reflected
here
as you make them in the Phrase display,
unless the Block's
lock
switch
is
activated.
The set of lock
switches, located to the right of each Melody Editor Block and
having a cor
responding
button
in the Phrases window, are all
engaged
by
default
when you load a Werk file. The
changeable
background
color of the full Block display in both the Phrases and
main Melody windows is a quick
lock-status
indicator.
When you
work with Phrases, unlock the Block you wish to edit first, in
order
to
allow data to pass
through
from
the Phrase window to the main
Editor. The main Editor allows partial or
complete
departures
from
Phrase-entered
note lines by direct hand editing of the Block
sequences.
When you lock the full Block
pattern
after
final
hand-
edits, you
ensure
that
further
Phrase window edits will not
overwrite
the Block.
The Melody track draws on eight random
velocity
groups
for each
Block, one for each
half-bar.
An
editable
graphic
below the Phrases
display beside Block View
represents
the full Block's worth of
velocity data. The eight vertical bars have five
incremental
steps
corresponding
to a
constant
maximum
value of 127 or one of four
randomized-value
ranges
between
64 and 127. Keep in mind that
this display
doesn't
depict velocities of single Phrase notes; these
are
ranges
for bar sections that may cover several notes! The
change
between
two value
groups
per bar
from
which velocities are
drawn occurs on the
variable
Transposer-stor
ed
mid-bar
count.