Yes, it does. Thanks very much.
Actually, I've used the on screen keyboard for about a year now because my real
keyboard is hooked up to the other computer, which takes me about 5 minutes to
set up. And, when I have an idea, I only have about 10 seconds to record it
before I forget it...
It's very encouraging for me to know that some schools might support the usage
of QWS, since it doesn't have all of the features of finale or other notation
programs that some like to use. I'm not sure if mine would let me use it, but
I'm pretty sure they'd let me after awhile once they saw that the stuff they
use has practically no text that isn't a graphic on the screen whatsoever.
I've also use QWS with VST Host, for doing vsts, as a lot of us do. I also use
Gold Wave and other plug-ins for making and editing my own samples, and sf2comp
for making those samples into soundfonts and then QWS to sequence them. So,
with the right tools a simple program can go a long way.
----- Original Message -----
From: Damien C. Pendleton
To: QWS list
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications?
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.
