Roland Musical Instrument manual MaxWerk Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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

difference is the much larger drum notes display. It is bordered on the right with GS default drum note numbers and accommodates a much wider value range. Here, step values represent actual note numbers rather than scale steps, and a note placement guide bar can help you mark the right spots for hits before you make manual note entries. As in the Note Editor, velocities have a set all to value menu with an associated refresh button. There is also a repeat a velocity series button. An octave display is not necessary for the Drum Loops, and octave wrap step values aren't needed either since transposition does not come into play. To maximize graphic display space, the buttons to open the Controls A and B, Bend, and phatWerk windows are placed along the top edge of the window .

Each Drum track is monophonic, and the Drum pattern generator works with only one note (kit sound) at a time. Pattern generating involves setting three menus below the note display and using the buttons in the right margin that add and undo beats. Once you have set the loop length and number of steps, the generator will decide how many of up to six beats to give you, or it can try to give you exactly as many beats as you want, so long as the step locations it picks are not already occupied by hits. The default setting of the beats add menu tells maxWerk to pick a random number of hits, and specific options for one through six of them follow. Note that once you have entered some beats into the display, depending upon the number of available loop steps remaining, fewer new hits may appear than you request.

The second setting, in the pattern length menu, takes effect if your loop covers more than one bar. When you direct new hits to 1 bar that repeats, the pattern is identical in all bars of the loop. The selection across all bars spreads out the generated pattern field. The third, in the beat placement menu, defaults to letting new generated hits fall on empty eighth-note steps, whatever the loop resolution. The alternate selection jogs placements by a sixteenth- note to add rhythmic interest. When you first make this selection, a new set of empty slots equal in size to the first becomes available.

maxWerk does not pick the drum instrument number to be entered by the Drum pattern generator--it's up to you to select the sound

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