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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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Like the
other
editor
windows, the lower
portion
of the Phrases
window contains a
quick
mutes window
button,
useful when
Automute
is disabled to
prevent
distraction
by
other
tracks as you
develop
your
Melody.
The Idea window
button
lets you bring in the
specialty track
described
earlier.
Engage the
Improv
and Idea tracks
if you find them helpful, or add helpfully
MIDI-mapped
Noodle input.
You can
enter
Phrases using only the
mouse,
without any help from
maxWerk.
Alternatively,
keyboard
s
tep
entry is available, as it is
for Basic
Loops.
(See the section
pertaining
to it above to
read
more
about
entering
notes into Phrases by
means
of your MIDI
controller.)
A
difference
between
the Editors for Notes and Phrases
is that
quantizing
on entry to a Phrase step
resolution
higher
than
16ths is not possible. Melody lines are always
heard
in play-
changes
mode,
with
note-offs
triggered
by
changing
pitches.
To have
maxWerk's
help coming up with a
Melody,
use the Phrase
Generator
, which has a line of settings across the top of the
Phrases window. A
four-level
pattern
complexity
menu offers
sparse,
simple,
busier,
and complex choices. A
phrase
length
menu gives you a choice
between
two-bar
figures
or a
repeating
one-bar
figure,
and lastly
there
is an activation
button.
When you
ask for a
repeating
motif, four instances of a
one-bar
pattern
pass
through
to the Melody Block. To
generate
new Phrase notes without
disturbing
notes
already
present,
be sure
there
are rests
(empty
pattern
slots) to be filled, and mark the checkbox option to
keep
existing
notes.
This lets you try
decorating
a simple Melody figure
in various ways until you have a
keeper.
Generated
Phrases occasionally include rests, and you can use the
add
a random rest
button
to
break
up long tied notes. Because of
the
two-octave
range
structure
there
is no use for an
independently
transposed
Scale note. Using the set of
edit 2nd
bar
buttons
you
can repeat, reverse
pitch
order, or
expand
the first Phrase bar to
cover two. Alternatively, you can s
ubstitute
scale-inverted
chordal
tone
variation
notes for values 2
through
6 in the second bar.
A pair of
pattern
menus
below the Phrase displays
automatically
imposes a
two-step
sequence
of pitch
order
direction
to fill the