Roland Musical Instrument manual Control Tricks

maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke

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you want by indicating a step value (note) using the vertical slider to the right of the display. As you move it up and down, you'll hear a hit on each kit sound at the corresponding display position. The arrow- shaped test buttons move the slider up or down one step with each press. Drum hits sound repeatedly in eighth-note time as long as a test button is held down. Press the add button to trigger the generator to enter beats at the slider-selected note. The undo button works by remembering the last note value placed by the generator. It lets you remove all generator-placed hits at that display value, so long as you have not manually added a hit at any other value before you use it. To remove all hits of a certain drum sound at a later time, set the slider at their note value level, press the add button to re-target the display value, and then use the undo button to remove all instances of that value.

Drum Editor controls for normal play or for loop start point variation are the same as those in the Note Editor. Along with the solo button there is a drums 1&2 button to solo both Drum tracks together, and one to hear them as automuted. To the lower right of the displays is another to switch drum parts directly to edit the other Drum Loop, bypassing the Main Screen access panel.

Track names are not given to Drum Loops; they simply have the designations "drum1" and "drum2".

2.11 Control Tricks

The MIDI controller number in the Controls A and B windows' right side section makes available the full range (1 through 120) for selection. If you are Werking in a GS mode track, select controllers instead from the GS Control menu in the lower section. The GS scheme for real-time sound shaping uses non-registered parameter number sets (NRPN's) rather than conventional controller numbers;

hence maxWerk's separation of controller assignments by type. The GS base number-box next to the GS Control menu shows you the default value to which maxWerk reverts when you stop play and when the controller is reassigned or disabled. You can enter control number assignments for both normal MIDI and GS modes, and

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