Where can I find audio tutorials explaining how to use qws?? Once an Eagle Always an Eagle
On Aug 7, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Leonard de Ruijter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
