Hi, Juan, I have the program you mentioned but I do not understand when to use it or why I might want to do that.
With Microsoft, all we have is that poor Wave Table. Where do ports come into play? Thank you. Joe Giovanelli ----- Original Message ----- From: Juan Bello <[email protected]> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:01 Subject: Re: QWS List some questions > > > 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]
