maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke
Published by RedMoon Music -
I. Concepts and a Tour
It's fine to explore maxWerk without first reading this Guide, by simply entering some notes and playing with its various functions as a voyage of discovery. The material that follows covers almost everything you'll find out this way, and listed later on are descriptions of maxWerk's key commands that expand on some of the terms you'll see in the Key Commands reference window. Most
Many play functions and parameter settings are not discussed in this section, but you can often easily figure them out. If you can't, look for descriptions in the second part of this Guide. If you are used to the composing process, you will find many of the function and parameter labels informative enough. The primary aim of this Guide is to show how even if you have little knowledge of music theory or keyboard playing skill, with maxWerk you can set up ambitious and rewarding experiments in
1.1 Global Setup
On first launching maxWerk, you will need to modify and save the "maxWerk_default_setup" file that lives in your maxWerk folder. This prepares the program to talk to your synthesizer setup thereafter. When you set tracks to GS mode, which is tailored to one of the range of Roland Sound Canvas modules or other
The maxWerk_default_setup set of customized,
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