Roland Musical Instrument manual MaxWerk Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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

Melody Phrases to capture incoming MIDI notes. You can enter step values from your controller or the computer's QWERTY keys, so long as you are careful to release each note before playing the next and remember to repeat-enter notes in order to extend durations. Keyboard step entry for Melody Phrases uses a step resolution that is fixed for that track according to the meter. Played note values appear in the Melody display only if they fall within the available two- octave range.

To allow keyboard step-entry of notes to Basic Loops and Phrases, maxWerk necessarily activates keyboard mapping to the current Scale, and a number of other play settings revert to their defaults. When you switch off the function, maxWerk restores the status of keyboard mapping to that displayed on the Main Screen. When you use your computer keyboard to enter notes to the Basic and Drum Loops, maxWerk generates random accompanying velocity values.

As each set of step information appears in the displays, the progress bar advances to the next step. While the function is active, incoming values overdub existing ones with each pass through the available steps. To enter a rest, press the 0 [zero] number key. You can overwrite the last-entered step of both Basic Loops and Phrases by pressing any MIDI key below the split point and entering another value. Toggle the function button or its command key (by a double press) to enter notes again from the beginning of the loop.

When you are making Drum Loops, keyboard step entry temporarily disables MIDI keyboard mapping, so that you can play any notes that are assigned to or offset from the range of MIDI note numbers 35 (B1) through 68 (G#4) on your controller keyboard. To place Drum notes into steps with imaginative help from maxWerk, use the drum pattern generator, which enters and removes sets of beats independently for each drum kit instrument.

The keyboard step entry button flashes yellow as a status reminder if you leave it enabled while your Werk is in play, and maxWerk automatically disables the function when you exit Editor windows.

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