maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music -
buttons in the Patterns window advance the edit locator, and when maxWerk is not in play, mouse clicks that change display values always cause the Arpeggiator to report the combined information from all four value sets. By means of a repeat control switch at the top of the Patterns window, you can spare yourself much hand editing by
The chord map is a second composer's tool available in the Transposer. Like the Patterns window, this one makes use of the Arpeggiator and contains specialized audition buttons as well as entry buttons that are active whenever maxWerk is not in play. Its diagram of chord names is also an active button panel for exploring and creating pleasing progressions. This diagram was adapted by permission from the music instructional graphics presented by Steve Mugglin at his website "Music Theory for Songwriters", found at http://members.aol.com/chordmaps.
You can work with the chord map in either of two ways. First, you must make a mode menu choice at the top. If you select 'modally by shifting triads', only the seven colored chord buttons are active, and the map triggers combinations of Tonics that sound scalic triads along with (+)Notes defaulted to echo the Tonic. These are chords that make sense musically in modal composing and work in any traditional scale. When you select the second mode 'by shifting keys and scales', the colored buttons achieve the same result by triggering combinations of Scales and Keys that use the Major scale as "home". The remaining chord buttons become active in Scales and Keys mode, so you can add complex variations to your progressions in the form of Tonic and (+)Note changes. Some complex chords involve all four transposition types. This transposition mode allows for progressions that digress from scalic pitches, because variations that use
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