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maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
7
I. Concepts and a Tour
It's fine to
explore
maxWerk without first
reading
this Guide, by
simply
entering
some notes and playing with its various
functions
as
a voyage of
discovery.
The
material
that follows covers almost
everything
you'll find out this way, and listed later on are
descriptions
of
maxWerk's
key
commands
that
expand
on some of
the
terms
you'll see in the Key
Commands
reference
window. Most
window-opening
Key
Commands
are easy to
remember
because
they simply involve the shift key and the first letter of the window
name.
Reading
through
this first section is
valuable,
however,
because
it can give a p
erspective
to help you
consider
and develop
your own style or
approach
to
composing
complete
Werks.
Many play
functions
and
parameter
settings are not discussed in
this section, but you can often easily
figure
them out. If you can't,
look for
descriptions
in the second part of this Guide. If you are used
to the
composing
process,
you will find many of the
function
and
parameter
labels
informative
enough.
The
primary
aim of this Guide
is to show how even if you have little
knowledge
of music
theory
or
keyboard
playing skill, with maxWerk you can set up
ambitious
and
rewarding
experiments
in
song-design.
1.1 Global Setup
On first
launching
maxWerk,
you will need to modify and save the
"maxWerk_default_setup"
file that lives in your maxWerk
folder.
This
prepares
the
program
to talk to your
synthesizer
setup
thereafter.
When you set tracks to GS
mode,
which is
tailored
to one of the
range
of Roland Sound Canvas
modules
or
other
GS-compatible
synthesizers,
this setup file,
among
other
things, lets maxWerk
provide
the
correct
alphabetized
patch list for your
particular
model.
The
maxWerk_default_setup
set of
customized,
user-created
data
remains
separate
from
Werk
(.mWk-suffixed)
song-data
files. In the
Global Setup window, which
appears
when you press the Main
Screen
“Globals”
button,
you can
enable
GS or
normal
MIDI mode
for each OMS device you want to use, and
confirm
which one is to