maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com
Improv plays, so that Improv takes the spotlight in your mix. You can have maxWerk automatically generate time-base-dependent auto- modulation, which can take the form of either Controller 1 (mod wheel) or Aftertouch. Values will ramp towards an adjustable maximum level with each new note. (To thin maxWerk's auto- modulation data, adjust the millisecond interval between elements of the number stream in the Global Setup window. This setting is saved as part of your Global Setup file.)
To recap important Melody track features: edits to two-bar Phrases appear twice in their corresponding four-bar Melody Block display, filtered according to the Block's last loaded patterns of pitch order direction and chordal tone variation. Newly loaded patterns of direction or variation act upon the latest state of the Phrase, and the copy function remembers the last Phrase version stored for each Block. Play settings and the Block Map further shape this Werk part.
maxWerk's Improv function, described earlier, uses a modified version of the Melody engine and incorporates a number of its features. You can tell Improv how long to play each new set of notes, and it will generate another after the number of bars you set, at the same time choosing a new direction pattern and a new variation pattern for note values 2 thru 6. Improv is unlike Melody in that it includes an option to play (+)Notes, and there is no option for a harmonizing line. Unless you set it to pan to center, Improv defaults to wandering pan, capriciously positioning itself in the sound field and strolling across and back in steps of sixteen controller values taken at the start of each bar.
2.15 PC-1600 Setup
The "maxWerk" preset for the Peavey PC-1600or PC-1600XMIDI Command Stations makes either of these a useful hardware alternative to the Quick Mutes window. With Automute disabled, you can easily experiment with combinations of tracks. The layout of faders and buttons corresponds to the channel assignments for GS mode. Note that the volume faders operate with inverted values! If you wish to set up a different external hardware device to control maxWerk, simply route knobs or faders to send Controllers 1