Did you turn on midi clock? Sometimes that can cause issues between QWS and your keyboard.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 23, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Scott Lawlor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi James. > > Thanks for the info. > > I'm finding that sometimes when I insert tracks, the second track will be a > combination of the instruments that I've selected for that track and the > first one. > > For example, I go to track, choose my instrument, set it to channel 1, hit > okay, insert track 2, choose another instrument, assign it to channel two > and when I arrow between the two tracks, the first track will play it's > instrument but the second track will play a layer of the second assigned > instrument plus the patch that I selected for the first track. I made sure > that local was off as well so I'm not clear on what would be causing this > strange behavior. > > Thanks for the help. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > James Bowden > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 10:48 AM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List got it working > > Hi Scott, > > Yes, you can loop a track and it will go round as long as you like. However, > if you record on another track, please be aware that the other track is also > looping. > > So, if you want a free length on the second track, your best option is to > Copy the first track and use the Paste Multiple command to make lots of > copies of it, effectively making a finite loop. > > Regarding your questions about the Quantise tool, can I refer you to the > Audio Tutorial on the QWS website about the tools: Go to qws.andrelouis.com, > then choose Downloads, then Audio, and it's Tutorial 5. > > The beat division in the Quantise dialog, by the way, is a beat division, > not a bar division. So if you are using sixteenth notes (we call them > semiquavers in the UK), there are four notes to a beat, so the value you > really wanted is 4, not 16. > > I hope this helps, but do get in touch if you have any further questions. > > With best regards, > > James. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Lawlor" <[email protected]> > To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:59 PM > Subject: RE: QWS List got it working > > >> Hi James. >> >> So I could create my own arpeggio patterns, record them to whatever note >> value I want to use, quantize it and then if I wasn't sure how long I >> wanted >> it to play, could I loop that one track to play indefinitely while I >> recorded other instruments on other tracks? >> >> Also, I had a couple of questions about the value fields in the quantize >> dialog. >> >> I recorded a piano part and it had some 16th notes and when I quantized it >> and chose 16 as the beat number, strict was at 100 and swing was at 0. >> when >> I played it back, it sounded too perfect, like there was no human feel to >> the playing so I'm assuming that the strict value needs to maybe be half >> or >> do I need to change the swing value from 0 to 50? >> >> Now, what I'd eventually like to do is maybe get into some VST synths, >> nothing like Omnisphere because this computer probably couldn't handle it >> and you have to jump through a bunch of hoops with hotspot clicker and >> third >> party scripts to get it to work but I'm sure there are pretty simple VST's >> out there that still have a lot of sounds. >> >> If I can create loops that can play for a long time, I can play those >> tracks >> while improvising over them for my live performances on the internet, >> something that Andre and I were talking about a little at any rate. >> >> I'm really excited to start exploring the possibilities of all this to >> enhance what I already do which, according to my wife and some other >> people, >> is really weird anyway. lol. >> >> Scot >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> James Bowden >> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 4:20 PM >> To: QWS list >> Subject: Re: QWS List got it working >> >> Hi Scott, >> >> That's great you got QWS working. Well done for sorting out your computer. >> >> With arpeggios, you have two options: >> >> Either you can just play the notes - sequencers are good at playing notes, >> and yes, you could use the Step Record function, or RealTime Record and >> Quantise. >> >> The other option, as you say, is to use the Arpeggiator on the FA8. I >> don't >> personally own an FA8, so will only speak from my experience with other >> Roland gear: yes, you can send MIDI clo ck to synchronise things, but >> you'll >> also need to tell the synth to be in Slave, instead of Master mode. If you >> do this, make sure to switch it back to master mode when you're not >> sequencing - otherwise, without a clock, the arpeggios just might not move >> at all! >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> With best regards, >> >> James. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Lawlor" <[email protected]> >> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:58 PM >> Subject: QWS List got it working >> >> >>> Hi there. >>> >>> >>> >>> I got the program working after eliminating duplicate ports and removing >>> a >>> bunch of entries from sound video and game controllers, stuff that I >>> didn't >>> even know what it was like microsoft sync clock and microsoft streaming >>> server. Sound video and game controlers had 17 items in it and now it >>> has >> >>> 4 >>> and things seem to be working better. That's an area I never really >>> checked >>> on in all the years I've had this computer so that probably accounted for >>> a >>> lot of problems so thank you Andre for that document in the roland folder >>> about removing ports. How's that for a run-on sentence? lol. >>> >>> >>> >>> one thing I'm wondering about is the following situation. >>> >>> >>> >>> The roland fa08 has an arpagiator and I'm guessing that you can use step >>> recording in QWS to create arpageos. but I like playing these in >>> real-time, >>> it just feels more natural to my way of doing things. If you've got >>> arpagiator mode turned on in the hardware side of things and you play >>> chords >>> into QWS, I'm assuming that if you don't quantize anything that it should >>> play back correctly right? I'm guessing that the trick would be to get >>> the >>> metronome to time exactly in sync with the arpagiator on your keyboard >>> but >> >>> I >>> guess midi clocking would take care of all that wouldn't it? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for the tips. >>> >>> >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> 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]
