maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music -
2.3 User Scales
We have seen how various scales, also called modes or pitch sets, are available for audition in the Scales window so long as the Transposer is not overriding your setting, and how the enabled Transposer calls on one of the stored scale sets at each bar. An edit user scale button lets you compare, enter, and store a custom Scale for your Werk by auditioning and entering seven chromatic pitches from the set of twelve. maxWerk calls on the Werk's User Scale information at every stored Transposer Scale value of 0.
Because the musical structure of maxWerk depends upon triadic interval harmonies, if you make chordal changes based simply on transpositions of the Tonic, any generated note patterns, Melody Phrases, and Improv patterns which refer to unusual or user- created Scales may produce more dissonances than those based on the Scales numbered 1 through 7. Note too that in order to make pentatonic music, you can start from either a Major or
2.4 Loop Magic 1
As you've seen, the displays referred to throughout this Guide are vertical bar graphs that represent data patterns read sequentially in a repeating fashion, into which you can place values with the mouse. There are four such editable displays in the Note Editor, two in the Drum Editor, and one in each of the Control and Bend windows.
Resetting note data to default values is differentiated by parameter groups for convenience, and this does not affect the loop's number of bars or step resolution. At the top right corner of the loop editing windows there is a clear all notes button. In the Offset Note Lines section, each of the three lines has its own
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