Roland Musical Instrument manual Step-Split Tracks

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A setting for the end bar is next in line as we move toward the right side of the play parameters panel. A similar end bar setting in the Automutes window determines the point after which maxWerk automatically stops playing all tracks, and for convenience you can set one bar number there that triggers ending behavior globally. However, once you have done this you can set earlier end bars individually by track in the Note Editor. At the end bar for a Basic Loop, maxWerk converts all pattern notes to the current tonic value. You can apply coordinated end bar settings, perhaps in combination with delayed muting and an extra bar of play set globally in the Automutes window, to bring your Werk to a pleasing close.

The transpose menu enables loop transposing by default, allowing chordal changes driven by maxWerk's stored data or by your live playing. You can obtain droning notes and use Basic Loops effectively for non-pitched instrument patterns if you disable this function so that the defaulted state of transposition for the loop remains unchanged.

The third transpose-menu option alt-loop inversions applies its processing on alternate repetitions to Scale pitches 2 thru 7, whatever their play direction. For example, a note and rest pattern of 1 1 0 2 3 4 5 5 becomes 1 1 0 7 6 5 4 4. Values 1 and 8 remain unchanged. This has the effect of changing the chordal response to transpositions during alternate loops, and you can exploit this as a feature if it pleases your ear. Layer this function with pitch rotating options to defy analysis! If you use it along with maxWerk's general transposing capabilities, interesting dissonances will emanate from this track on every other loop.

The track name button lets you enter up to 12 characters, which subsequently appear the Editor window, on the Main Screen track panels, in maxWerk's various indicator labels, in loop-copy menus, and in the Leadsheet.

2.6 Step-Split Tracks

maxWerk makes it easy to create an overly dense texture of notes from overlapping patterns, filling the empty spaces that are always

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