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2.9 The Idea Track
An alternative to keyboard step entry that you can use to help create Basic and Drum Loops or Melody Phrases is the live- recorded,
Once you have captured an Idea of any length, you can set it to play starting at any bar number you wish. If you set maxWerk to loop a certain selection of bars that includes the set starting bar, you'll hear your Idea play repeatedly along with any stored loop or Melody information. You might even use a longer Idea track to add an unstructured part to your finished Werk. However, the Idea track is not recorded into your Werk midifile, nor is it saved as part of a Werk file. Instead, you can save any number of Ideas as midifiles, bearing in mind that in maxWerk you can play only one at a time.
Once you abandon an Idea recording by switching off playback and subsequently quit maxWerk, the material in it is lost unless you have saved it as a midifile. Ideas cannot have tempo, notes or any other elements changed after they are recorded, but you can of course import saved Idea midifiles to another application for further work.
2.10 Deeper Drums
The d1 and d2 drum buttons in the top right Main Screen panel open an editor dedicated to the two Drum Loops. Its layout bears some similarities to the Basic Loops' Note Editor, but an obvious
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