Roland Musical Instrument manual What maxWerk Doesnt Do

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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

You can use external hardware or software as a MIDI clock source or destination. Your finished Werk plays in a locked-tempo mode as it records its output to a standard midifile for export to a full-featured sequencer. Support for an optional Peavey PC-1600 or PC-1600x MIDI controller unit is included.

What maxWerk Doesn't Do

maxWerk contains no music at all when you begin a new Werk, except for arpeggiated chords that help you audition progressions. It is not an auto-accompaniment program with canned patterns! Its huge array of possibilities begins with choices made by you.

maxWerk is not a notation program either, but it saves all the types of information about your composition listed above, and it creates a reference text you can save and print that shows, by bar, everything you need to know about the structure of your composition. Although you may use fewer than seven scale pitches (as in the Pentatonic scale, for example), maxWerk does not support scales that have more. However, it does let you store a custom scale for each Werk.

maxWerk does not directly produce audio files. Because it deals with MIDI data, a world of possibilities remains for developing the music you begin here. maxWerk is not a full-featured sequence production environment, but it can be a partner to your favorite one.

System Requirements

∙A Power Macintosh running OMS, with operating system 8.5 through 9.2. See the OMS manual for instructions on how to install this MIDI management system and how to create a studio setup document.

∙At least 5 MB of free hard disk space

∙40,000K of free RAM

∙A MIDI interface

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