Roland Musical Instrument manual Basic Loops

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relative to data present in any other track. Keep in mind that processing always begins from the "go-to" bar.

Automute has a global end bar setting, a refinement to which is found for each track in the lower panel of the Note Editor. There you'll find a 16ths sustain on mute menu setting for each loop that determines the number of sixteenth-note durations the last step plays before automuting cuts notes off. These delayed note-offs do not follow the transpositions of succeeding bars. This feature is designed to allow creative overlapping of sounds as tracks enter and leave your mix, and, like end bars, the function applies only when Automute is enabled.

Another function related to Automute and accessible only from the Automute window can lend interest to your mix. The Autofade button brings up a single bar graph display at a time that represents all bars of the last edited Basic or Drum Loop track. A track- switching menu in Autofade does the obvious. These switchable track strips store an Expression Controller 11 value with a range of 0 through 127 at each bar, giving you a way to bring tracks in and out of your Werk in a subtle manner over any number of bars. Autofade is always active along with Automute, and you can creatively layer the two functions. Be aware that when Autofade levels are down, you may not be able to hear anything, but notes enabled by Automute still consume the available MIDI notes (polyphony) of the targeted sound-generating device.

1.6 Basic Loops

Let's go back to the Main Screen to begin making some looping tracks. A click on the numbered panel button for any one of them opens the Note Editor window (as does a key command), and the loop you are editing is temporarily solo'ed, as shown by the enable indicator LED/button at the bottom of the Note Editor. Even if Automute is enabled and this track is currently muted, maxWerk suspends muting (enables the track) while the Note Editor is open.

The first items at the top of the window, the steps number menu and loop length menu, set the event resolution for this loop and

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