
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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When maxWerk is not in play and the Arpeggiator is enabled, both
presses and releases of the left hand keys trigger two-octave
chordal tone sets. The (+)Note-triggering black keys, however,
remove their changed chordal values and restore the (+)Note to the
Tonic value when you release them.
When you select the keyboard mapping mode called global key
shifts in the Global Setup window, the stored split point does not
apply. Instead, maxWerk enables all controller keys to make simple
chromatic transpositions that are suitable for certain musical styles.
The two lower letter rows of your computer's QWERTY keyboard
are always in polyphonic MIDI note entry mode in maxWerk. They
cover two and a half adjustable octaves of notes in the current
Scale, so that you can use the program without a MIDI controller
keyboard. They respond to the octave adjustment found in the
Noodle and Note Editor windows, and they are not affected by the
MIDI keyboard split point.
When Automute is disabled, you can selectively mute and enable
tracks and see their status by means of the blue LED's on the Main
Screen. Mute and solo switches for the track you are editing are
also in the lower section of the Note and Drum Editor windows.
Notice that soloing in an Editor window temporarily overrides
automuting of the track. The positions you set for the pan and
volume knobs on the Main Screen become the default values when
these controls automatically reset and when you save your Werk.
You will see the tempo-setting slider change color from reddish to
green when you enable Performance mode. This reminder tells you
that any Tempo map saved with the Werk is now in effect. Pressing
the Tempos button next to the slider brings up the Tempo Map
window. Here you can store changes to the beats-per-minute
values transmitted to maxWerk's timing engine with each passing
bar. When you take maxWerk out of Performance mode, it takes the
Tempo Map out of service. While midifiles are being prepared,
tempo is temporarily set to a constant 60 or 120 beats per minute
according to a Global Setup parameter, for the sake of accurate
event timing for file export.