RedMoon Music maxWerk Musical Instrument User Manual

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maxWerk

~ mad scientist's music composing tool ~

Users' Guide

Revised March 2007

Application and documentation by

Çikira -- Amanda Pehlke

RedMoon Music

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Page 1 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Çikira Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com RedMoon's maxWerk ~ mad scientist's music composing tool ~ Users' Guide Revised March 2007 Application and documentation by Çikira -- Amanda Pehlke Copyright 2000 - 2007 All rights reserved RedMoon Music evolutionary electronica www.redmoon-music.com...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Contents Meet maxWerk / System Requirements Concepts and a Tour Global Setup Menu Items The Main Screen Features to Note Automute Basic Loops Drum Loops Controllers The Transposer Melody The Block Map Improv...
Page 3 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Meet maxWerk maxWerk is a loop-based MIDI composition tool that gets its name from the Max programming language with which it was built. It can give endless musical suggestions, but it also encourages entirely original ideas.
Page 4 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Two control patterns and pitch bend. Control destinations are freely selectable, and pattern choices include various generated or hand-drawn sweeps, which can retrigger with new notes. You can enter step-synced patterns, and you can have patterns dynamically creep or randomize.
Page 5: System Requirements
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com You can use external hardware or software as a MIDI clock source or destination. Your finished Werk plays in a locked-tempo mode as it records its output to a standard midifile for export to a full-featured sequencer.
Page 6 - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com A MIDI sound module compatible with the Roland GS standard is highly recommended. Alternatively, you may address multiple polyphonic and multi-timbral synthesizers. Bear in mind that maxWerk allows up to sixteen polyphonic parts, and...
Page 7: Concepts And A Tour
When you set tracks to GS mode, which is tailored to one of the range of Roland Sound Canvas modules or other GS-compatible synthesizers, this setup file, among other things, lets maxWerk provide the correct alphabetized patch list for your particular model.
Page 8: Menu Items
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com be the target for each of maxWerk's tracks and your live “Noodle” play. maxWerk creates a list of available preset names for GS mode use according to the GS module model parameter setting in this file. You can find the GS mode MIDI channel layout of maxWerk's tracks in the "Werk Files"...
Page 9: The Main Screen
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com existing file, you will find copies of alternative template files in the "maxWerk Filing Cabinet" folder that can save you having to make many tedious associated editor window changes. Once you are used to maxWerk, you might wish to use these as a basis for creating your own template files, especially if you find you often use loops longer than one bar.
Page 10: The Main Screen
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com progress command restores your sound generating setup to match the current state, saved or unsaved, of maxWerk's MIDI message- based settings and patches, according to the Global Setup. Revert to last save lets you go back to your last-stored set of information.
Page 11 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com these work, but using them comes easily once you get a feel for making looping tracks. While maxWerk supports only one Meter choice per Werk, but tracks based on step numbers that are multiples of 6 and 8 counts are compatible in the same Werk, and may be included in either Meter.
Page 12: Features To Note
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com contributions. Important dynamic indicators in the lower left section of the Main Screen show the four elements that contribute to maxWerk's transposition status at every bar: a Key number from 0 through 11 representing A though G# with an offset flag, a Scale name, a Tonic note number, a (+)Note number, and a triad chord quality.
Page 13: Automute
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Pairs of arrow-shaped "Go-to" bar buttons appear in many edit windows. Some edit functions take effect beginning at or only on the last "go-to" bar you manually set. To go to any bar quickly, hold an arrow button or one of the command keys for bar scrolling, or simply press one of the locator buttons and then fine-tune the bar location.
Page 14 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com where you can enable or mute all 128 bars of the track at once from any point in the Werk, depending on the status of the window's control button. Double-clicking the track label brings up a pattern- entry dialog, where you can enter a binary pattern of ones and zeroes that will apply starting with the last set "go-to"...
Page 15: Basic Loops
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com relative to data present in any other track. Keep in mind that processing always begins from the "go-to" bar. Automute has a global end bar setting, a refinement to which is found for each track in the lower panel of the Note Editor.
Page 16 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com the number of bars it contains. The length of a Basic or Drum Loop with no change of play direction can be from one to four bars. In order to be able to tell what is going in a multi-track Werk and to be able to edit loops easily, it is a good idea not to overdo the total number of steps;...
Page 17 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com either stored or played live) from a transposition engine that is separate and independent of the one triggered by values 1 through 7. Although an 8-step has the appearance of being “larger” than the other values in the display because its vertical bar is longer, the Scale pitch value that it represents can in fact change at each bar, and it is always mapped to correspond to one of the other seven.
Page 18 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com The data in the octaves display, the third of the set, defaults to a value of 4. This initially places all the notes you enter into the octave that includes middle C.
Page 19 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com forward direction, but applies a note-scrambling function that causes a fresh shuffle of existing step values at each new loop-start, while leaving unchanged the pattern of durations that gives the loop its rhythmic feel.
Page 20 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com The fourth item is random retrig, and at this setting note values of zero produce note-offs as always, but repeating values 1 through 8, which would tie notes in play-changes mode, instead trigger new notes randomly, so that each repetition of the pitch pattern is given a degree of unpredictable rhythmic interest.
Page 21: Drum Loops
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com patterns are best if you intend your final MIDI tracks to play patches that have a lot of programmed movement! In the Note Editor's lower panel you can give your loop a track name of up to 12 characters.
Page 22 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com sound-shaping, sending values just ahead of note information to create distinct rhythmic changes or stepped effects. The Control and Bend windows differ from the main Note Editor in that once you enter values, to have them transmit you must enable MIDI output via the activation menu in the right margin of the display.
Page 23: The Transposer
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com apply it to filter cutoff, resonance or pitch bend. If you use the latching checkbox, there is no need to enter a starting pattern because maxWerk creates a new one at the start of each loop. The window's step mode indicator changes to read rdm, but since these patterns are not editable, the changing sets of values don't appear in the display.
Page 24 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com graphically displayed Transposer values, to arrive at the chord information in the Leadsheet and the chord names you see displayed on the Main Screen. Unlike other Transposer elements that can be disabled, Global Offsets are always in effect.
Page 25 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com the harmonically useful ones for you. The user scale available at value 0 is for the adventurous, offering a seven-pitch set of definable intervals that you can add as part of your Werk file. You can repeat or re-order the pitches in this scale any way you please.
Page 26 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Transposer before you try out real-time transposing. Otherwise, you will find that stored values override your input at the start of each bar. The spacebar toggles the timing engine that stops and starts play.
Page 27 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com buttons in the Patterns window advance the edit locator, and when maxWerk is not in play, mouse clicks that change display values always cause the Arpeggiator to report the combined information from all four value sets.
Page 28 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com in both Transposer sub-windows enable 1-bar looping buttons, a button mode that disables the arpeggiator and lets you hear instead the current Werk bar repeating as long as you hold the button down. When 1-bar looping is disabled, the Arpeggiator works again.
Page 29 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com If all of this seems like a lot to stay on top of, let's outline the possibilities of composing purely by trial-and-error, using live scalic transposing from the computer's QWERTY keyboard. Transposing can trigger arpeggiated feedback if maxWerk is not playing, or it can alter looping patterns in play.
Page 30: Melody
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com lets you deal separately and independently with loop-making, Automute, Melody, and Improv functions. Notice that you can enable playback of all stored data types at once with the single key command or the Main Screen button-press that engages Performance mode.
Page 31 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com represent definitive pitches unless you disable Block transposing. By default, they behave like the values in the Basic Loops' Note Editor in that they initially represent starting Scale note positions without any transposing, and their played pitches are determined by stored Transposer data or by value-changing real-time key presses.
Page 32 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com --> --> --> <-- <-- <-- <-- --> To give an example, the second menu choice --> <-- means that when bars 3 and 4 of the four-bar Block repeat the seed Phrase, a contrasting pitch order direction is imposed and layered over any pre-existing edits.
Page 33 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com that is among the Basic Loop Note Editor's options. Since we brought up the subject: when you use the similar function in the Note Editor by enabling the invert alt. loops checkbox, the value set: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7…changes to 1-7-6-5-4-3-2...
Page 34: The Block Map
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com The Phrase generator menu offers new starting patterns at one of four levels of complexity on a press of the generate button. This creative assistant and some more Block output-modifying features in the main Melody Editor window are described in Part II.
Page 35: Improv
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 1.12 Improv To round out this introductory description of features, we'll describe one more specialty track whose settings become part of a Werk file and whose output is recorded in midifiles. maxWerk's Improv player looks for inspiration to your choices from source menus, where you can select up to four existing Basic Loops and/or Melody Phrases.
Page 36: Noodle
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 1.13 Noodle You may enjoy playing and recording your controller keyboard along with your Werk. A MIDI device/channel through the program is reserved for this purpose, complete with basic controller and GS phatWerk settings.
Page 37: Maxwerk In Depth
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com II. maxWerk In Depth We have seen that maxWerk's eleven Basic Loops and two Drum Loops can play patterns up to four bars long. Add to these the three special-purpose tracks - Melody, automatic Improv, and the Noodle track for accompanying live play, and maxWerk gives you sixteen MIDI channels' worth of creative engines.
Page 38 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com When maxWerk is not in play and the Arpeggiator is enabled, both presses and releases of the left hand keys trigger two-octave chordal tone sets. The (+)Note-triggering black keys, however, remove their changed chordal values and restore the (+)Note to the Tonic value when you release them.
Page 39: Patch Changes
GS patch name menus. These are divided by general instrument category and listed alphabetically, and they are specific to the model of Roland GS module selected in the Global Setup window. Across the maps for the hierarchy of GS models, there are some differences in the naming of sounds of certain combinations of bank and variation numbers.
Page 40: User Scales
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 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.
Page 41 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com the default values of all at once. A play-defaults button in the lower right window section serves to restore all the settings that determine how you hear the displayed patterns, but it does not change the graphics.
Page 42 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com repeats of the pattern to fill added bars. (Use the editor's 'repeat a series' function in the generator panel to copy-paste patterns within one bar.) You can overwrite or build a pattern from scratch using the uniform time interval edits menu-and-button interface.
Page 43 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com useful for doubling the length of a loop, and a rdm ends-in variation that also alternates with normal passes. Next to the direction menu, the note triggering modes menu makes four principal options and six variations available for Basic Loops' behavior.
Page 44: Loop Magic
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com and automatically moves to the gate-off position. This mode is good for pads and special effects. Be careful about adding Offset Note Lines (described below) in this mode, for they can greatly increase the demands on your sound module for polyphony (notes that can sound at once).
Page 45 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com has a value of 1. A checkbox at the bottom of the Note Editor lets you defeat all forms of transposition for a Basic Loop. You may wish to disable transposing in order to produce a drone, or to avoid pitch shifts if you have a track dedicated to a percussive sound.
Page 46 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com There are sets of arrow-buttons above and beside the Note Editor displays that let you rotate their contents one step at a time. The horizontal step rotator buttons have a menu letting you shift values in all four displays at once (the default) or just one at a time.
Page 47 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com the displays. You can have mutations occur once every bar to once every four bars via the mutation control menu. The revert menu tells mutation-enabled loops to go back to their original play pattern after a certain number of bars.
Page 48: Step-Split Tracks
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com A setting for the end bar is next in line as we move toward the right side of the play parameters panel. A similar end bar setting in the Automutes window determines the point after which maxWerk automatically stops playing all tracks, and for convenience you can set one bar number there that triggers ending behavior globally.
Page 49 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com necessary to give interesting definition to a mix. The step-split function lets you direct individual scale steps of a single pattern (the values in the note graphic you are editing) separately or in groups across a selected set of target tracks.
Page 50: Offset Note Lines
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com setup-enabled Basic Loops is always available, regardless of the function's status. It always reflects the current setup, and this can be handy even if you aren't using the step-split function in your Werk. Step-split track values other than notes, as well as all other loop parameters, are dealt with through their respective editors.
Page 51 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 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.
Page 52: Keyboard Entry
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com You can assign Line B, labeled “scalic”, a base scale-step Tonic transposition value different from the original, and you can shift it by octaves relative to the original and adjust velocities. You can delayLine B by any number of steps, as you can Line A.
Page 53 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Melody Phrases to capture incoming MIDI notes. You can enter step values from your controller or the computer's QWERTY keys, so long as you are careful to release each note before playing the next and remember to repeat-enter notes in order to extend durations.
Page 54: The Idea Track
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 2.9 The Idea Track An alternative to keyboard step entry that you can use to help create Basic and Drum Loops or Melody Phrases is the live- recorded, no-frills Idea track. This is a non-editable midifile recorder and player of non-transposing sequences that can serve as a simple motif-entering guide.
Page 55 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.
Page 56: Control Tricks
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com 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.
Page 57 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com these are stored together in your Werk file. As with program changes, however, maxWerk transmits only the type of control messages appropriate to each track's globally set instrument mode. Creating Control A and B patterns begins with a setup of messages to be sent either as independent sweeps or note-synced steps, using a row of three buttons in the upper left window corner.
Page 58 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com unusual pattern by hand with perfect timing, use the guide marker menus to create temporary evenly-spaced value entries to help your freehand drawing. When you ask for one to four instances of a 96-step waveform, you can choose between sawtooth, sine, pulse, triangle, and two types of parabolic curves.
Page 59: Phatwerk
Improv, Melody Sound, and Noodle windows. An array of virtual knobs and several menus store GS sound and effect settings for the edited track. Your Roland GS product manual provides an in-depth explanation of these parameters and the types of MIDI messages that produce them.
Page 60: More Melodizing
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com before copying or importing data, as these changes overwrite destination data and can't be undone! 2.14 More Melodizing We have seen that melodies have 16th-note resolution, and therefore global Meter affects the total number of steps in Melody Phrases and Blocks.
Page 61 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Like the other editor windows, the lower portion of the Phrases window contains a quick mutes window button, useful when Automute is disabled to prevent distraction by other tracks as you develop your Melody.
Page 62 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com currently selected Block, followed by a two-step variation pattern discussed fully in Part I. When you make menu choices, the Phrase data for the full Block is immediately re-processed and sent to the main Melody Editor.
Page 63: Pc-1600 Setup
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Improv plays, so that Improv takes the spotlight in your mix. You can have maxWerk automatically generate time-base-dependent auto- modulation, which can take the form of either Controller 1 (mod wheel) or Aftertouch.
Page 64: Werk Files
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com through 16 on MIDI channel 16, and buttons to send Program Changes 1 through 16 on any MIDI channel. PC-1600 maxWerk-control layout: Faders 1-11 control volume of Basic Loops 1-9 and Drums 1 and 2.
Page 65 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Chord files, which may be saved and imported to the Transposer, consist of data for any or all of the four graphically represented transposition types along with any mid-bar changes. Chord files may be up to 128 bars in length.
Page 66 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com The third type of data file you can save of your Werk is a Leadsheet file, which is a text file made available when you call up the Leadsheet window from the Extras menu. From here, you can save information that may be useful when your midifile is imported to a full-featured sequence-editor.
Page 67: Key Commands Reference
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com III. Key Commands Reference (+)Notes - see Transpose 1-Bar Looping Buttons - see Arpeggiator Accent - see Automute Added notes - see Transpose Apostrophe - see Click Arrows - see Key, Mute, Reset Arpeggiator - [Shift 7] toggles a function to sound chordal notes over two octaves, for convenience when making Transposer edits or when using the...
Page 68 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com BPM - see Tempo Bar 1 - see Reset Bar locators - [Shift s] opens the Scales window, which includes the Bar Locators Editor. Bar scroll - [ ] The square bracket keys, held down one at a time, move quickly up or down through the bar numbers.
Page 69 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Commands - see Key Commands Copy & save progressions- This window has no key command, and is accessed through the Transposer. Copy/Import - [Shift c] opens the Copy/Import window for transfer of selectable data types from any track in the current file or a saved Werk to any other track of the same kind.
Page 70 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Increment - see Bar scroll Key Commands - [Shift k] opens this reminder list window. Key shift - When the Transpose function is disabled, the up and down arrow keys shift the Key number (not the Global Offset) by semitones.
Page 71 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Main Screen - [Shift f] brings the Main Screen to the front of other open windows. Map - see Keyboard mapping, Block Map Markers - see Bar Locators Melody - [Shift m] opens the Melody Editor and enables Melody play.
Page 72 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Play (and Stop) - The spacebar starts and stops maxWerk's internal MIDI clock and all enabled functions. After they stop, maxWerk flushes all held notes for each track and follows up with an All Notes Off command. The Arpeggiator for testing progressions works only when maxWerk is stopped.
Page 73 maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com Scales - [Shift s] opens the Scales window, which also contains a sub- window for User Scale setup and the Bar Locators Editor. Scroll - see Bar scroll, Tempo scroll Setup - see Globals Spacebar - see Play Step - see Keyboard step entry...
Page 74: Contact Information
maxWerk - Copyright 2000-2007 Amanda Pehlke Published by RedMoon Music - www.RedMoon-Music.com [Shift x] toggles the Transposing function. When the Transposer is disabled, the following key commands are operational, enabling manual changes of mode: The number keys 1-7 transpose within the current scale by shifting the Tonic pitch, or root, and the equivalent value is assigned to the (+)Note.

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