Transforms to convert the major and minor scales to a Hajaz scale (also called Egyptian Minor or Hungarian minor) would be nice for an instant middle-eastern flavor to a melody. I'm trying to remember the exact change from minor to get this scale. I know you lower the second scale tone, but I've forgotten the other one. (raise the seventh? That might be it, but I'm not sure)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raymond Grote Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:09 AM To: QWS list Subject: Re: Re[2]: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? The problem with melodic is, when going up the melody line has a normal sixth and seventh found in a major scale, and when going down it is lowered to a natural minor scale. I could try making one to see how well it works. Another thing I was thinking of, how about a transform for inverting melodies, so if you wanted harmony, you could just run the inversion transform you needed and have an instant harmony track? I'd have a route to first and second inversions for major and minor. Anyone have suggestions for transforms? I really am into them now that we brought it up. If I send in transforms, how should I send them? Should I attach a file containing the data, and call it transforms.ini or something like that, that way I'm not overwriting anyone's user transform data? Or should I just paste it in a message and hope the line breaks don't interfere? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard de Ruijter" <[email protected]> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:04 AM Subject: Re[2]: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? > Good idea there with the major to minor. I've also thought about > creating those, since there are more then one major to minor So if > you'd like to share them with us, that would be great. > transforms possible, harmonic, melodic and such things. > -- > Regards, > Leonard de Ruijter > Playing in the dark > > > > Monday, August 8, 2011, 9:53:32 PM, you wrote: > >> I fully agree with you there. Once I loaded in a 15 minute file, and was >> looking for different things with the find function. It found something >> at >> the very end of the file instantly. I've never! had to wait for anything >> to >> be processed or found in qWS. Even notepad with text files sometimes >> makes >> you wait, but maybe that's because text files can be bigger than midi if >> they're long enough. But the same can be said for midi too. I get the >> impression there's no real size limit with QWS, because i've tried to >> push >> it several times, I've loaded 200 k midis and it didn't complain. The >> only >> time it did, was when I tried to load in a final fantasy midi and it said >> the midi wasn't a valid midi file or something, so I went into Synth Font >> and resaved it, and then it opened fine. The sound was unaltered too, in >> that there were no changed controllers that i could tell, nothing really >> missing. >> By the way, I've made a new major to minor transform, it sounds more >> natural, instead of changing the major sevenths to minor sevenths, it >> keeps >> them where they are. So it's more of a harmonic minor scale now but the >> minor -sevenths in the original untransformed data are still preserved. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Onj" <[email protected]> >> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 3:51 AM >> Subject: Re: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? > > >>> good morning. I cannot begin to tell you just how much of a proponent I >>> am for QWS. I'm probably the second longest user of QWS in the world. >>> I >>> produced my entire album with it. Recently I went to Birmingham in the >>> UK, not Alabama, and tought it to some students in Priestley Smith >>> school >>> for the blind. >>> From the feedback I got at the end, it helped them quite a lot, and we >>> produced some videocasts for the school intranet. If or when I get >>> permission, I will share those on-list with you all, so you can >>> hopefully >>> benefit from that also. >>> I was only there for one school-day but the students were receptive and >>> did really seem to enjoy the demonstrations I put fourth. One of them >>> was >>> of course, the famous note-transform. I played the very well-known >>> nursery rhyme old Mcdonald in F major, and used the major to minor to >>> turn >>> it into something rather different from the original. Picking something >>> that people know quite well for demonstration purposes really hellped to >>> get the point accross I feel. >>> >>> Although other DAWs have such features, how many of them are as easy to >>> use or to find as simply visiting the tools menu? How many programs are >>> forgoing menus entirely in favour of nasty ribbons or toolbars and >>> saying >>> bye bye to keyboard shortcuts? too many imho. >>> >>> the fact that I can run a basic set of synths on a Netbook and take QWS >>> with me literally anywhere with access to a qwerty keyboard and write >>> down >>> ideas is a huge bonus to me. What I think is that a rather large >>> section >>> of modern computer users have very little pacients and if the product >>> has >>> no fancy graphics they dismiss it out of hand after 3 minutes of using >>> it. >>> Truely it is their loss, not ours. We know what we have. We utilise it >>> to the best of our abilities and for myself, I'm very glad QWS came into >>> being. >>> For a free product, very few things come close in the midi world, of >>> matching it. Note I said midi, not midi and audio, for we all know QWS >>> does not support audio. >>> >>> Lastly, the size of the program and lack of CPU. Both are practically >>> non-existant, even with 32-channel midi files. Responsiveness. Fast >>> forward and rewinde in other daws and see what happens. >>> >>> That's really that for now, but just my thoughts on this Monday morning. >>> Thank you for reading. >>> >>> From: Nicole Massey <[email protected]> >>> on Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:52 PM >>> >>>> I haven't installed it yet, because I'm still waiting on some >>>> assistance >>>> to >>>> get one of my USB keyboards out of the storage space my studio is in at >>>> the >>>> moment, but I have read the manual end to end. >>>> >>>> One thing that struck me was its similarity to older DOS based >>>> sequencers, >>>> in that the approach tends to give you a lot of tools to work with >>>> without a >>>> lot of focus on bells and whistles. There's a very large list of things >>>> it >>>> will do to MIDI, but it leaves a lot of other stuff to other programs. >>>> >>>> In the computer programmer world, such a program is called a "gerbil." >>>> The >>>> mental picture is a small gerbil busily running in its wheel, doing >>>> what >>>> it's supposed to. Such programs are nice to find, because they handle >>>> things >>>> rather well. >>>> >>>> One of the points I like about QWS is that everything is done using a >>>> standard MIDI file. This takes a step or two out of porting the >>>> sequence >>>> to >>>> a notation program if you need it, or to a DAW should that be your >>>> intent. >>>> I plan to use QWS for my MIDI work while my studio is deconstructed for >>>> construction of the building, as I still have work I want to get done >>>> right >>>> now, and dragging a seven foot tall rack full of modules and support >>>> gear >>>> into the house (with three steps to get inside, too) doesn't seem to >>>> make >>>> a >>>> lot of sense to me. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>> Raymond Grote >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:18 PM >>>> To: QWS list >>>> Subject: Re: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? >>>> >>>> That's a good point. What I was trying to figure out is why QWS is so >>>> scary >>>> to a sighted person. It's nothing graphical, it just lays itself out in >>>> front of you and you have to do what you need with it. And it doesn't >>>> have >>>> as many functions but that's because it's only for midi, not even sheet >>>> music which I could care less about it. I'm sure there are other >>>> programs >>>> for it when I need it that I could use in conjunction with QWS. As I've >>>> said >>>> >>>> the only reason I can even think of is that it doesn't have any quick >>>> presets that you can just click or modify like some DAWs do. >>>> In any case, even though QWS's usage is simple, mastering it is not. >>>> I've >>>> had many people try QWS and play with it and figure out how easy it was >>>> to >>>> transpose or change to a different instrument, for example. But they >>>> know >>>> nothing about midi or theory. So it's even simple enough for them, and >>>> that's a good thing. If they're satisfied with it, then let them be. I >>>> really don't see how much simpler the interface could get. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Leonard de Ruijter" <[email protected]> >>>> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:43 PM >>>> Subject: Re: QWS List is QWS harder to use than most midi applications? >>>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>>> 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] >>>> >>>> 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] > >> 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] 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]
