Roland Musical Instrument manual MaxWerk Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com

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

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