Hi Raymond, In my opinion, QWS is certainly the best sequencer I have come across in my time. I needed absolutely no help in using it, and in actual fact my previous school over in Worcester have now started using QWS in their music department. It was actually a member of the computer staff, Peter Bryenton, that introduced me to QWS, and I have never, ever gone off it, in the eight or so years I have been using it. >From a tools viewpoint, I think it has a lot more tools than Notepad could >ever give, and though it doesn't give most of the hardcore audio productionist >elements like Cubase or Cakewalk, it is certainly enough to be able to record >pure MIDI both quickly and efficiently. Put it this way, even recording a full ten plus track song using the on-screen keyboard is quicker than it took me to set up and record a single drum track in Cubase. That was my primary method of recording MIDIs until I got my keyboard fairly recently. Hope that helps. Regards, Damien.
----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Grote To: QWS list Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:56 PM Subject: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? 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.
