Hi all,
Here's an interesting question. When I learned QWS, I didn't have anyone to
help me out with it, just the setting up the keyboard part. And I had to learn
most of the tools and functions myself. While I am a decent musician, I don't
consider myself better than everyone. But QWS just came natural to me, a little
more than I had expected. There are sighted people I know that know way more
than I do, who use other programs which are not at all accessible. They have a
whole workstation in front of them, and they can do way more than impport midi
data and play it back, they can tweak pretty much every synth and effect
peramitor there is. Whether they actually know the ins and outs of it I don't
know, but it sure seems like they do.
Now the question. I know people who are impressed with the work I do, contrary
to my opinion, lol. but, they wanted to know how I did it, but they're sort of
geared into something like I said above and I'm not sure exactly how to
approach QWs. I initially said, "The manual's really good, you should
understand it." I was under the impression that QWS's features were pretty
familiar to any midi sequencer that knows what they're doing, and it would be
ridiculously simple. But then an hour later they'd uninstall because it was
either too complicated for them or too slow. I then realized that QWS and a DAW
are pretty different, QWS is like Notepad, where it doesn't offer amazing
functions with one clikc. You have to use the thirty or so tools that it
provides you, in the way you want them, not go by some factory of presets
already made for you and tweak it from there.
So am I even partially right? Is QWS really complicated from that standpoint,
or could it be lack of patience? We've all seen what Andre can do with it, I
myself found it hard to believe that he used QWS at first since I'm nowhere
near that level.
Maybe some of you here have had similar experiences and can give more insight.
