maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music -
within conservative delay and octave limits, initially using the random note retriggering mode. Once you add a note line, it uses the loop's gate time setting, but by means of its thru part menu you can route its notes to any Basic Loop's MIDI device/channel. Each Offset Note Line is controlled by the automute pattern of the track selected in its obey auto menu. These two matrices for MIDI destination and Automute source let you create interdependent decorative patterns or contrasting sonic treatments of parallel motifs. At the bottom of the Offset Lines parameter panel an edit- audition menu with associated shortcut buttons lets you hear the loop in various ways: soloed, together with one other track, together with a subgroup of tracks as defined in the
Parameters for Offset Note Lines are as follows:
Line A, labeled “triadic”, can be set to sound in unison with the original or a constant third or fifth apart, according to your selection from the intervals menu. A “random” selection lets maxWerk choose for you among these harmonizing intervals with each new note. Another Line A intervals menu item applies the active (+)Note interval as the offset from each new note, so that the character of the line can change with each bar. This (+)Note menu selection is not among the randomizer choices, because it calls for advance planning to include value 8's when you enter primary loop notes.
You can shift all three Offset Note Lines by an up or down octave adjustment. A velocity adjustment is available that lets you create interesting effects ranging from faint echoes to patterns that are louder than the original. You can set a delay of any number of loop steps, and choose from three play modes. Line A is the easiest additional note line to use because it never sounds dissonant.
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