Avoid using the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth at all costs. Use something with far better sound and lower latency, like BassMIDI and a good bank of GS sound fonts loaded into it as your default. This is what the application mentioned here in a prior message is for if you're using Windows 7 or later -- replacing the wavetable as your default with something that does a far better job. Ports in a Windows environment are either real MIDI ports through MIDI cables or USB and any other driver sound devices you have installed along with any other virtual MIDI cables you have in the system. These widen your playback options to a great deal.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Joe Giovanelli > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:58 AM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List some questions > > 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] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
