Hi Ivan,
If you are using the Microsoft Wave Table, I have had issues with that synth
for quite awhile when I was using it. Try playing a file in windows Media or
some other player, and then try to play it in QWS. I even had to play a file
in both programs at once, then stop one to get it working with QWS.
However, one time I pressed control y to redo something, not knwoing it
would active synchro start, which then will not play the files when pressing
space bar. Go to the play menu and make sure that's turned off.
I'd advise you get a keyboard as you were planning. Even if you wanted to
use software synths, you'd be fighting a battle. But if keyboards aren't an
option right now, here are my thoughts on the software synths I've seen.
SFZ and Timidity are both soundfont synths, Timidity is a synth driver and
SFZ is a vst. They work but SFZ doesn't respond to note velocities as well
as others do which may present problems, and the chorus is terrible.
Timidity has its fair share of problems like awful chorus, and only able to
use the standard drum set, at least on my and my friend's machines. Synth
Font is good but it's harder to use and doesn't have any midi effects,
you'll have to use VST for those which I have never done within Synth Font.
Overall the Yamaha SYXG50 is your best bet if you can get ahold of a full
version. Yamaha didn't make it available after they discontinued it and it's
ashame they didn't, for 25 or 35 dollars it was probably the best synth
you'd get from them for the money and many people still use it because it's
fully xG compatible and has many memorable sounds in it.
Hopefully I have helped at least a little bit. Good luck!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Pivac" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 6:28 PM
Subject: QWS List playing midi files
Hi Joe,
Many thanks for your reply re my query playing midi files with QWS. I
don't
actually have any synths connected to my PC. With the original QWS
program, I could just open a midi and play it using the spacebar. I could
also delete instruments and carry out other tasks in QWS. Once I had
finished changing a midi file that I had downloaded from Internet, I could
then record the midi as it was playing then finally save it as a wav or
mp3 file to play through an amp as a backing track.
As yet, I don't have a keyboard of any kind as I play guitar. However, I
am seriously looking at one and that's the reason for installing QWS
again. I hope this explanation makes more sense of what I have been doing
and want to achieve?
Many thanks
Ivan
Ivan Pivac
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