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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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Improv
plays, so that
Improv
takes the spotlight in your mix. You can
have maxWerk
automatically
generate
time-base-dependent
auto-
modulation
, which can take the
form
of
either
Controller
1
(mod
wheel) or
Aftertouch.
Values will
ramp
towards
an
adjustable
maximum
level with each new note.
(To
thin
maxWerk's
auto-
modulation
data, adjust the millisecond interval
between
elements
of the
number
stream
in the Global Setup window. This setting is
saved as part of your Global Setup file.)
To
recap
important
Melody track
features:
edits to
two-bar
Phrases
appear
twice in their
corresponding
four-bar
Melody Block display,
filtered
according
to the Block's last
loaded
patterns
of pitch
order
direction
and
chordal
tone
variation.
Newly
loaded
patterns
of
direction
or
variation
act upon the latest state of the Phrase, and the
copy
function
remembers
the last Phrase version
stored
for each
Block. Play settings and the Block Map
further
shape this Werk part.
maxWerk's
Improv
function,
described
earlier,
uses a
modified
version of the Melody
engine
and
incorporates
a
number
of its
features.
You can tell
Improv
how long to play each new set of
notes, and it will
generate
another
after
the
number
of bars you set,
at the same time
choosing
a new
direction
pattern
and a new
variation
pattern
for note values 2 thru 6.
Improv
is unlike Melody in
that it includes an option to play
(+)Notes,
and
there
is no option for
a
harmonizing
line. Unless you set it to pan to
center,
Improv
defaults
to
wandering
pan
, capriciously
positioning
itself in the
sound field and strolling across and back in steps of sixteen
controller
values taken at the start of each bar.
2.15 PC-1600 Setup
The
"maxWerk"
preset
for the Peavey PC-1600 or PC-1600X MIDI
Command
Stations makes
either
of these a useful
hardware
alternative
to the Quick Mutes window. With
Automute
disabled,
you
can easily
experimen
t with
combinations
of tracks. The layout of
faders
and
buttons
corresponds
to the
channel
assignments
for GS
mode.
Note that the volume
faders
operate
with
inverted
values! If
you wish to set up a
different
external
hardware
device to control
maxWerk,
simply
route
knobs or
faders
to send
Controllers
1