Roland Musical Instrument specs

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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

in both Transposer sub-windows enable 1-bar looping buttons, a button mode that disables the arpeggiator and lets you hear instead the current Werk bar repeating as long as you hold the button down. When 1-bar looping is disabled, the Arpeggiator works again.

The main Transposer and the Patterns and Chord Map windows have mid-bar change buttons. These open a small window where all four data types can be entered or removed at the current bar. In the absence of mid-bar change data the original bar data remains in effect. Mid-bar change data is not graphically displayed, but it is copied, pasted, and stored along with the rest. You'll hear mid-bar changes begin at the middle beat of odd Meters; for example, at beat 3 of a 5-count Werk.

The Copy & save progressions window is accessible from the main Transposer and from the Patterns window, where its button is labeled copy/paste. Here you can select one or more types of Transposer information, copy a sequence of values for any number of bars, and then apply them anywhere else in the Transposer. You can also save a transpositions-only data file for later import in its entirety. Be sure to give your saved Chord files names that remind you how many bars they cover!

To focus on editing a particular section of your Werk, you can use a key command to loop bars or a button to do this found in several windows including the Transposer. It brings up a dialog for entering the number of bars you want to loop and any starting bar in the 128- bar song. Keyed again, this section-looping function switches off and linear play is restored. maxWerk reports the loop-bars function status just below the Main Screen bar counter.

To summarize important Transposer points, this maxWerk function lets you build music on chords that consist of up to four pitches and refer to the passing tones of the scales you use in your patterns and their key. You can arrive at exotic chord sequences by layering changes to the various forms of transposition, without having to play them consistently and correctly on your MIDI keyboard.