maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
before copying or importing data, as these changes overwrite destination data and can't be undone!
2.14 More Melodizing
We have seen that melodies have 16th-note resolution, and therefore global Meter affects the total number of steps in Melody Phrases and Blocks. From 2-bar seed phrase buttons located at the top of the Melody window you can bring up a second zoom-in window that lies over it. Here you can compose melodies that use a two-bar motif or Phrase as source material for each four-bar Block.
In the Phrases window is a smaller non-editable representation of the full Block you are editing, labeled block view. Changes are immediately reflected here as you make them in the Phrase display, unless the Block's lock switch is activated. The set of lock switches, located to the right of each Melody Editor Block and having a corresponding button in the Phrases window, are all engaged by default when you load a Werk file. The changeable background color of the full Block display in both the Phrases and main Melody windows is a quick lock-status indicator. When you work with Phrases, unlock the Block you wish to edit first, in order to allow data to pass through from the Phrase window to the main Editor. The main Editor allows partial or complete departures from Phrase-entered note lines by direct hand editing of the Block sequences. When you lock the full Block pattern after final hand- edits, you ensure that further Phrase window edits will not overwrite the Block.
The Melody track draws on eight random velocity groups for each Block, one for each half-bar. An editable graphic below the Phrases display beside Block View represents the full Block's worth of velocity data. The eight vertical bars have five incremental steps corresponding to a constant maximum value of 127 or one of four randomized-value ranges between 64 and 127. Keep in mind that this display doesn't depict velocities of single Phrase notes; these are ranges for bar sections that may cover several notes! The change between two value groups per bar from which velocities are drawn occurs on the variable Transposer-stored mid-bar count.