Hi, The controller stuff isn't that difficult, but it's only useful if you're going to use that sort of thing. For what you're doing I wouldn't think it's of much concern, at least not now. As you predicted, there's no way to have QWS change the octave setting automatically for drums. One thing you will also have to be careful of with drums, is that if you check the option that says apply to all tracks and transpose the song, it transposes everything, including drum tracks, which won't sound good. You'll have to mute the tracks you don't want to change before you do anything to the rest of them. The tempo thing is something of a problem as you said. I hate dealing with that situation myself. Normally I just ignore the need for tempo changes and get the whole midi done first, or at least as much of it as I can stand at one tempo. Then I add tempo changes afterwards. It's normally a good idea to put tempo changes either on channel 1 or 0, but it really doesn't matter.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dewald van Deventer To: QWS list Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:30 PM Subject: Re: QWS List Drum kit on Yamaha PSR-e323 Raymond. You're a star. I got it right, both ways, using my keyboard and QWS' options. Luckily on my keyboard, i just press the functions button 9 times to get to main voice octave settings. And i just press the minus button or plus button to go down or up. But QWS also works nicely. I'm just not too up to date about all that controller messages and controller reassign and all that. Still sounds a bit Greek to me. Ok, so is there a way in QWS to, everytime i set channel 10 for the drums for it to transpose automatically? Probably not, wouldn't expect it. :) Another question that i had about QWS, is if you could set the tempo with just a few key-presses. Almost ajust it with shortcut keys. Like the start, length, velosity f5 and f6? I'm trying to learn a Beethoven piece, and it's a bit difficult to set the tempo everytime the tempo in the piece changes. I haven't read the manual through yet, busy with it, but ... Thanks, Dewald. Dewald Louwrens van Deventer Cell: +2782-461-4865 Fax: +2786-612-5921 E-mail: <[email protected]> Skypename: <dewie007> Facebook: <Dewald Louwrens van Deventer> --- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Ludwig Van Beethoven Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo ----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Grote To: QWS list Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:11 PM Subject: Re: QWS List Drum kit on Yamaha PSR-e323 Hey, I think I know what's going on. Basically, when you're using the keyboard on its own, it can send custom midi messages to itself that it recognizes. for most 61 key keyboards, the keyboard is transposed down one octave for drum patches. There's probably a system exclusive message to do that automatically, which the keyboard uses as soon as you switch to that instrument. When we use something else to change instruments, those messages aren't being sent, so you're not getting transposed down anymore. The easy way to fix this is to use the octave setting on your keyboard. On some keyboards there are butttons that will do it, on others you have to go into a menu, which is a pain. The octave setting doesn't use any midi messsages, it just sends lower notes to the midi output. QWS also has its own transposition that you can use by going to the options menu, and going to midi assignments. There's also some other cool stuff in there. Personally I just use the octave setting on my keyboard for situations like that because I can reset it quickly with one button press, as opposed to going into a dialog in QWS to do it. ---- Original Message ----- From: Dewald van Deventer To: QWS list Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:18 AM Subject: QWS List Drum kit on Yamaha PSR-e323 Hi list. Just a quick question this time. :) My keyboard has 12 drum kits availible. Voices 109-121. When i am connected to QWS, and have selected one of them, and play, i see, that the higher octave of my 5 octave keyboard is missing. When i press from C# to the top C, it doesn't play anything. But i actually figured out that QWS or maybe its the MSB and LSB thing again, moves the whole soundset one octave lower. In other words C1 to B1 gets left out. But the interesting thing is, that, i went into my metronum settings, and actually set my first tick as G#1, which is a drum stick tick sound. But when i create a track and select one of the kits, it only starts from C2. Is there maybe a setting or something that i could set. There's really some nice sounds in the lower octave i could use, like the drumrole, some other cool drum sounds. If it's not possible, it won't be a trainsmash, but ... Thanks, Dewald. Dewald Louwrens van Deventer Cell: +2782-461-4865 Fax: +2786-612-5921 E-mail: <[email protected]> Skypename: <dewie007> Facebook: <Dewald Louwrens van Deventer> --- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Ludwig Van Beethoven Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo
