maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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where you can enable or mute all 128 bars of the track at once from
any point in the Werk, depending on the status of the window's
control button. Double-clicking the track label brings up a pattern-
entry dialog, where you can enter a binary pattern of ones and
zeroes that will apply starting with the last set "go-to" bar.
At each bar where a track is muted, maxWerk also resets the loop it
plays to its beginning state. For example, if you play a three-bar
pattern muted after two bars and enabled several bars later, the
pattern restarts at the head of the loop on being enabled without
having played its third bar. With multiple patterns in play, it may spoil
your intent if you mute and enable at the wrong places; so a helpful
dynamically updating feature of Automute is provided as follows:
Say for example that track 1 does its looping job over four bars. It
has a two-bar graphic editor pattern, but on alternate repetitions a
function is triggered that produces changed note values, so that four
bars of listening are required to appreciate the effect. maxWerk
automatically displays the number of bars in one pitch cycle by way
of the small number tag located to the right of the track label. The
gradual 'mutate' function is an exception not reflected this way.
Noting the reminder in this case, you might enter a pattern such as
001111 into the dialog presented. This appears in the track strip as
a repeating sequence starting from the "go-to" bar all the way to the
last. This particular pattern causes two bars of silence followed by a
full function cycle. After it plays you'll hear two more silent bars, and
then the play pattern of ones repeats.
On its own in the upper left window corner is a setting to loop the
song in its entirety, and across the top of the Automute window
under the bar locators is a set of editing buttons. Enable improv
settings automatically bring in and silences one interlude from
maxWerk's bonus strolling musician. Another setting specifies the
end bar of your Werk and optionally applies it to all the loops.
You can move mutes, shifting them by several bars in either
direction. You can randomize mutes or copy and invert mutes
