Roland Musical Instrument manual MaxWerk Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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

When maxWerk is not in play and the Arpeggiator is enabled, both presses and releases of the left hand keys trigger two-octave chordal tone sets. The (+)Note-triggering black keys, however, remove their changed chordal values and restore the (+)Note to the Tonic value when you release them.

When you select the keyboard mapping mode called global key shifts in the Global Setup window, the stored split point does not apply. Instead, maxWerk enables all controller keys to make simple chromatic transpositions that are suitable for certain musical styles.

The two lower letter rows of your computer's QWERTY keyboard are always in polyphonic MIDI note entry mode in maxWerk. They cover two and a half adjustable octaves of notes in the current Scale, so that you can use the program without a MIDI controller keyboard. They respond to the octave adjustment found in the Noodle and Note Editor windows, and they are not affected by the MIDI keyboard split point.

When Automute is disabled, you can selectively mute and enable tracks and see their status by means of the blue LED's on the Main Screen. Mute and solo switches for the track you are editing are also in the lower section of the Note and Drum Editor windows. Notice that soloing in an Editor window temporarily overrides automuting of the track. The positions you set for the pan and volume knobs on the Main Screen become the default values when these controls automatically reset and when you save your Werk.

You will see the tempo-setting slider change color from reddish to green when you enable Performance mode. This reminder tells you that any Tempo map saved with the Werk is now in effect. Pressing the Tempos button next to the slider brings up the Tempo Map window. Here you can store changes to the beats-per-minute values transmitted to maxWerk's timing engine with each passing bar. When you take maxWerk out of Performance mode, it takes the Tempo Map out of service. While midifiles are being prepared, tempo is temporarily set to a constant 60 or 120 beats per minute according to a Global Setup parameter, for the sake of accurate event timing for file export.

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