Hi Jackie,
Now that's interesting. I can't exactly speak for event editors and the like
since I never even came close to playing with one in other sequencers.
Although, I may be biased simply for the fact that I have used it for so
long and pretty much forgot what the others were like, except, not very good
accessibly. At least for me, QWS was accessible and didn't take a lot of
getting used to.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications?
Raymond, (& this is no offense to James) but IMO, its interface is
quite awkward. For example, in most midi programs, u can bring up an
event list editor, get a list of all events, & edit them. W/QWS, the
event list only goes by beat, u have to keep clicking to go to the
next 1, etc. U also have to right-click in order to edit the value(s)
u want. Then there's the note editor & control editor, etc., all of
which I'm used to being able to handle thru an event list. So, yes--I
could see where folks might find it slow or cumbersome or both,
especially if they were used to being able to do edits from a single
interface.
On 8/7/11, Raymond Grote <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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might even be the culprit
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