Hey Raymond, I have to say that qws seemed quite complicated to me when i started working with it. Another thing, which is a big credit to Andre, as soon as i started listening to some of his tutorials, i found qws getting more and more interesting for me, and understood more of it. For example, i've played with note transform for several days after i listened andre's tutorial concerning this. I use qws for every sequencing work i have to do now, and it works great. Lots of functions qws has i miss in daws, for example the quick note editing and midi assignments. So may be it's an idea to point the daw-lovers to Andre's tutorials. One remark i also have to make is that some of my sighted friends found qws quite scary as well, but that's more about how they found it look like, and as it is mainly used by blind musicians, i don't care. -- Regards, Leonard de Ruijter Playing in the dark
Sunday, August 7, 2011, 9:56:04 PM, you 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. > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
