Okay, then how do your sequences not play correctly? What problems are you encountering?
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Joe Giovanelli > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 8:04 AM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List some questions > > Hello, > > First, thank you for all of you who took time to offer suggestions. > > It looks like I didn't state my problem clearly enough. I'm using > Windows 7 Professional. I use a Casio PX-300 to record and play my > music. Of course, I use QWS. Playback is as expected. > > When I take my sequence to a Samick electric "piano," that my music > does not play correctly. > > I have a number of MIDI sequences and these play properly on that > Samick. To me this rules out difficulties with sound mapping. These > same sequences work well with QWS. Again, this would indicate that > there's no mapping incompatibility. > > One list member suggested that I use a MIDI program designed to solve > some Microsoft issues. It isn't apparent to me how that can help in > this situation. I guess I'm missing something. > > Joe Giovanelli > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Florian Beijers <[email protected]> > To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:09 > Subject: Re: QWS List some questions > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Some questions, to clear up some of the mess Mike. > > When you say your sequence plays well in QWS, what exactly does that > > mean? Does your song play over your computer speakers, or over the > > speakers of your instrument? > > If it plays over your speakers, the problem is likely that your > > instrument uses different bank and patch numbers than what your pc is > > using, which gives the difference in instruments. > > If it does play over your instrument, I'd like to ask you how you > > subsequently play the MIDI file back on your instrument itself. Is > > there a process you use for that? > > > > Regards, > > Florian > > > > 2015-07-02 10:01 GMT+02:00, Juan Bello <[email protected]>: > > > hi, on Windows xp you could just simply go inside the sound > settings > > > in control panel and choose your default midi device. But Microsoft > > > being silly and lame for all musicians as they always have been, > and > > > will ever be, hid the option of selecting default midi device on > > > Windows 7 and beyond, forever. FOCbi'rtunately a few ones have come > > > to the rescue, and created this small utility that is 100% > > > accesible, because it is a really trivially simple task that > > > deserves a section on a subsection of the control panel. You just > > > download and run the executable file inside this zip file, its very > > > small in size, no installation is even necessary. If you have > > > problems, install the dot net framework from the Windows updates or > > > google for it. And also try running the program again as > > > administrator by selecting the executable file, pressing the > > > applications key or shift plus f10 and then finding the option run > as administrator. > > > > > > http://sdim.gr/mpc/MidiPortConfig.zip > > > > > > 2015-07-01 22:25 GMT-05:00, mike hall <[email protected]>: > > >> Hello Nicole. Sorry I didn't punctuate the right way, because i > was > > >> trying out a text to speech program to see how it would work. and, > > >> i guess it didn't work out like i liked it to. So i am sorry about > > >> that post and i am glad you told me about it. thank you. I'm using > > >> Windows 7. So are you saying, that i need sighted help setting my > > >> audio default device up? Well thank you for your help and, i hope > > >> you can read this email better to your satisfaction. Take care and > > >> god bless. > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> > > >> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 10:38 PM > > >> Subject: RE: QWS List some questions > > >> > > >> > > >>> QWS handles this for you if you set up the track properties as > you > > >>> want them. Make sure that on playback you have your port set > correctly. > > >>> When playing a standard MIDI file in anything other than QWS it's > > >>> going to play to your default MIDI playback device. > > >>> Note also that playback devices aren't required to use the same > > >>> sound maps unless they're GM, GM2, GS, or XG compliant. Only > these > > >>> sound mapping schemes have consistency across MIDI devices, and > > >>> anything that isn't one > > >>> > > >>> of > > >>> these can put any sound in any program number. This may be part > of > > >>> your problem depending on what you're using for playback. > > >>> > > >>>> -----Original Message----- > > >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > >>>> Behalf Of Joe Giovanelli > > >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 8:27 PM > > >>>> To: QWS list > > >>>> Subject: Re: QWS List some questions > > >>>> > > >>>> Hello, Nicole, > > >>>> > > >>>> When I set up each track, I filled in all the appropriate items. > > >>>> That includes bank, the instrument (taken from an instrument > > >>>> list). I set pan and volume as needed in order to get the sound > balance I wanted. > > >>>> > > >>>> It all works well when playing my sequence via QWS. It does not > > >>>> produce anything like the correct instruments when I transfer > > >>>> this sequence to a synth equipped with a MIDI player. > > >>>> > > >>>> I can't remember but much about this, but years ago when I had a > > >>>> different sequencer, I had to enter all those valuep at the > start > > >>>> of each track. > > >>>> > > >>>> I can figure what to enter, but do not know how to do that in > QWS. > > >>>> > > >>>> I hope my explanation makes more sense now. > > >>>> > > >>>> Thank you, Nicole and others, for your ideas. > > >>>> > > >>>> Joe Giovanelli > > >>>> > > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- > > >>>> From: Nicole Massey <[email protected]> > > >>>> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > > >>>> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 20:51 > > >>>> Subject: RE: QWS List some questions > > >>>> > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > This isn't just a QWS situation - it's the way MIDI works > > >>>> > dependent upon the hardware or software it's controlling. QWS > > >>>> > does use the -1 value to indicate that it isn't going to send > > >>>> > anything, leaving > > >>>> things > > >>>> > the way they were last set. Some devices will reset to a set > > >>>> > value, but most will leave things as they were until something > > >>>> > new comes in unless you sent an All Controllers Off message > (if > > >>>> > supported by the device - this is a recent addition to the > > >>>> > controller list) or other reset commands in Sysex. So this > kind > > >>>> > of behavior is normal for MIDI, which is why I always set the > > >>>> > volume, pan, reverb, and chorus values > > >>>> in the track properties. > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > -----Original Message----- > > >>>> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > > >>>> Behalf > > >>>> > > Of John Sanfilippo > > >>>> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 5:52 PM > > >>>> > > To: QWS list > > >>>> > > Subject: Re: QWS List some questionns > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > I'm not quite certain of what you are asking, but one thing > > >>>> > > you might try is setting the volume of every track to 100 or > > >>>> > > 127. I found that when I set track volumes, the next time I > > >>>> > > opened an otherwise empty qws midi file, it remembered the > > >>>> > > other track and > > >>>> instrument settings. > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > Just a wild guess. It can't hurt to try. > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > js > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >>>> > > From: "Joe Giovanelli" <[email protected]> > > >>>> > > To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > > >>>> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 16:02 > > >>>> > > Subject: QWS List some questionns > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > Hello List Members, > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > I have a couple of questions. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > I have created a sequence and edited it to my > satisfaction. > > >>>> > > > Although > > >>>> > > it > > >>>> > > > plays properly through QWS, it does not play correctly > when > > >>>> > > > the > > >>>> > > sequence > > >>>> > > > is transferred to another instrument which does not > involve QWS. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > The initial setting for each track were done using the > > >>>> > > > track > > >>>> > > properties. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > It appears that QWS "knows" what I intended but this info > > >>>> > > > is not transmitted to other equipment. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > How do I get the right settings written directly to my > sequence? > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > I probably have other questions but perhaps this is enough > > >>>> > > > for this > > >>>> > > round. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > Thank you for reading this. > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > Joe Giovanelli > > >>>> > > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >>>> > > http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > for archived list posts, see > > >>>> > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >>>> > > http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > for archived list posts, see http://www.mail- > > >>>> > > archive.com/[email protected] > > >>>> > > > >>>> > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >>>> http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >>>> > > > >>>> > for archived list posts, see > > >>>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > >>>> To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >>>> http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >>>> > > >>>> for archived list posts, see http://www.mail- > > >>>> archive.com/[email protected] > > >>> > > >>> To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >>> http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >>> > > >>> for archived list posts, see > > >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > >>> > > >> > > >> To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > >> http://lists.andrelouis.com > > >> > > >> for archived list posts, see > > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > >> > > > > > > > > > - > > > Juan Pablo Bello > > > Cel. 313-879-2884 > > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > > > http://lists.andrelouis.com > > > > > > for archived list posts, see > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > http://lists.andrelouis.com > > > > for archived list posts, see > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
