Roland Musical Instrument manual

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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has a value of 1. A checkbox at the bottom of the Note Editor lets you defeat all forms of transposition for a Basic Loop. You may wish to disable transposing in order to produce a drone, or to avoid pitch shifts if you have a track dedicated to a percussive sound.

The Drum Editor notes display by default triggers notes 35-68, a scheme that works well for GS drum kits and many other MIDI percussion instruments. Each of the two Drum Loops saves a note number offset that can be useful in normal (non-GS) MIDI Mode to allow for differences in percussion sound modules. The vertical- arrow test buttons to the right of the display let you use repeated presses to locate desired kit notes by sound. Holding either button causes a single drum sound to repeat in eighth-note time.

The velocities display has nine values that represent: 0 (a rest), seven randomized values within groups of sixteen, and a constant value of 127. Velocity values of 0 cause silence even when they are coincident with the start of a new note. Drum notes can't be tied, and they hold for no more than a full step's duration.

The octaves display has nine available values to pair with entered notes, covering the full range of MIDI note numbers. The nine values of the wrap steps display below it determine the highest allowable Scale pitch after the effect of transposing that will sound in the designated octave; i.e. the octave wrap-around point for each step. Values transposed above the wrap step will sound in the octave below. You can use wrap step settings in conjunction with Offset Note Lines (described in the next section) to fine-tune chord inversion effects as a finishing touch once you have established your Werk’s transposition patterns. For randomized unpredictable octave shifting at each bar, use value 0 wrap steps. To have the wrap step follow changing (+)Notes, use value 8. Note that wrap step values take effect together with changes in octave, and before global changes of Key or the Global Offset map.

Between the velocity and octave displays there is a portamento switch menu (control 65) and a portamento time slider (control 5) for each track. Pan and volume setting knobs, as we mentioned earlier, are on the Main Screen panel beside the track buttons.