Roland Musical Instrument manual Transposer

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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apply it to filter cutoff, resonance or pitch bend. If you use the latching checkbox, there is no need to enter a starting pattern because maxWerk creates a new one at the start of each loop. The window's step mode indicator changes to read rdm, but since these patterns are not editable, the changing sets of values don't appear in the display. Part II describes in detail these and more features of the Control A, Control B, and Bend Editors.

1.9 The Transposer

The Transposer contains maxWerk's pitch-filtering system. Your Werk can change Key and Scale automatically as it makes modal chord changes within both Key and Scale. As a fun bonus, while maxWerk is in play and the Transposer is enabled and making chordal transformations to stored patterns, your keyboard re-maps itself according to Key and Scale as you play, so that all you have to do to competently noodle a live line over tracks is repeat simple patterns emotively on the white keys in C.

The Transposer has bar-graph displays of four different sets of data for 128 bars. The values that you see in the primary window of the Transposer appear again in the smaller displays of the Patterns window, which is accessible via one of the secondary-window buttons along the bottom edge of the Transposer. The Patterns window reflects the state of any 16 bars of Werk that you wish to bring into focus. Whenever it is opened, and whenever you use the bar scrolling function with buttons or key commands, the current bar becomes the first shown in the Patterns display.

A more fundamental form of transposition underlying these, for which there is no graphic display, comes from the Global Offset Map, accessed by a button at the top of the main Transposer window. Here you can shift the root pitch of your Werk and your MIDI controller's input up or down by semitones up to a full octave from the default C (key signature 3). You can use it to create overall shifts in the mood of your piece when all is said and done by making further offsets at any bar. The offset flag appears in the form of a semitone number following the Key display on the Main Screen. Global Offsets work behind the scenes, along with all the

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