maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
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before copying or importing data, as these changes overwrite
destination data and can't be undone!
2.14 More Melodizing
We have seen that melodies have 16th-note resolution, and
therefore global Meter affects the total number of
steps in Melody
Phrases and Blocks. From 2-bar seed phrase buttons located at
the top of the Melody window you can bring up a second zoom-in
window that lies over it. Here you can compose melodies that use a
two-bar motif or Phrase as source material for each four-bar Block.
In the Phrases window is a smaller non-editable representation of
the full Block you are editing, labeled block view. Changes are
immediately reflected here as you make them in the Phrase display,
unless the Block's lock switch is activated. The set of lock
switches, located to the right of each Melody Editor Block and
having a corresponding button in the Phrases window, are all
engaged by default when you load a Werk file. The changeable
background color of the full Block display in both the Phrases and
main Melody windows is a quick lock-status indicator. When you
work with Phrases, unlock the Block you wish to edit first, in order to
allow data to pass through from the Phrase window to the main
Editor. The main Editor allows partial or complete departures from
Phrase-entered note lines by direct hand editing of the Block
sequences. When you lock the full Block pattern after final hand-
edits, you ensure that further Phrase window edits will not overwrite
the Block.
The Melody track draws on eight random velocity groups for each
Block, one for each half-bar. An editable graphic below the Phrases
display beside Block View represents the full Block's worth of
velocity data. The eight vertical bars have five incremental steps
corresponding to a constant maximum value of 127 or one of four
randomized-value ranges between 64 and 127. Keep in mind that
this display doesn't depict velocities of single Phrase notes; these
are ranges for bar sections that may cover several notes! The
change between two value groups per bar from which velocities are
drawn occurs on the variable Transposer-stored mid-bar count.