Your staccato piano sound is a percussion instrument that is routed to another channel, probably something that isn't a part of the normal percussion map. It sets channels around channel 10 because that's the standard.
These consumer level keyboards do some non-standard things with what they play, and Yamaha is notorious for creating their own terms and standards just to be different from everyone else. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dewald van Deventer Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:56 PM To: QWS list Subject: Re: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a computer: Andre. Thanks about your step by step thing. That actually answered a question i had. That the left part of my keyboard to control the harmony of the style didn't want to play when i activated syncro start and recording on QWS. But using the function of style data solved it. Smile. Could you please just explain what you mean by strange sounds being played back to you. I also get weird sounds sometimes, but only when i lost a connection between QWS and my keyboard. Then the guitarres, bass, strings, everything of the style is played back as piano, except the drums of course, because that's on channel 10, and the rest is on channel 0. But, i've also noticed that QWS sometimes creates a track with nothing on it, except this small staccato piano notes now and again. Almost simular to that flute clicks instrument listing on my keyboard. It's only one specific staccato note not even in the harmony of my piece, just playing repetitively. I actually wonder why it splits the channels into channels 9, 11, 12, 13, etc. And not beginning at 1, and then, 2, 3, etc. for all the different patches of the style. I've rearanged the patches "instruments" of a style, and it sounds cool! Of course i'd have to do some editting once i've recorded the style, because sometimes when switching over to another chord, i press the note too late and then it leaves some staccato notes in the note editor, which i just delete. :) Just imagine what nice sterio sounds one could make with the instruments of a style. Guitarre panned to the left, piano to the right, drums in the middle, strings duplicated, and placed on each side ... etc. Oh yes, so by the way, i've created my own Yamaha PSR-E323 instrument list, which i will send to James when he's back in the new year. It's quite easy. I used my Yamaha manual and the E403 instrument list as a reference, and just removed exstra entries, for example: a sweet flute entry, which my keyboard doesn't have. In your case, you'll probably have some exstra instruments. Just refer to your manual to see what you have exstra. It works quite nicely if you have an instrument list. Makes it easier! God bless, 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: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: RE: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a computer: I've been thinking about this situation. QWS will only record what's coming in. This indicates to me that there is additional content on other channels coming from the keyboard as drum data that isn't on channel 10. Most keyboards don't send program change messages when they start playing, so of course since the track doesn't have the right program change set for channel 9 it will default to 0, which is most often a piano sound in general MIDI derived sound sets. (like XG stuff, for example) The question here is what patch the style is using for channel 9. Inputting that proper patch number should resolve the problem. The problem is not QWS, of course, as it's just recording what it's hearing, not changing anything. Try this: First play the sequence. Listen to where the piano notes hit. Now once you've got a feel where those notes hit drop the tempo on the keyboard to a slow speed and turn on the style. Listen at those spots where the piano played in your recorded sequence and hear what is playing that line on the keyboard. This will tell you what sound they have on Channel 9. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of André Baldo Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:51 AM To: QWS list Subject: Re: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a computer: Well someone once sent a Yamaha PSR-E403 definition to the list, and by what I know it has very little difference from the E413. The thing is: I am not sure if the instrument definition would have something to do with the problem, since the sounds are coming out strange even if I leave only the drums turned on and the program's channel to 0. It comes a piano track on channel 9 if I do channel split even if there should only be the drum sounds. I tried to do gm reset, gm2 rese, gs reset, xg reset, nothing worked as expected... But I'll keep on trying or fixing those things manually... Thanks anyway! André. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <[email protected]> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:56 AM Subject: Re: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a computer: Andre, does your keyboard have an instrument definition list? That might be the problem? I don't know--I don't have a yamaha--but I thought it might have different instruments than just the standard midi instruments that qws is configured to use by default. Just a thought. Does your keyboard also use xg? U might also need to send an xg message to qws in order to make stuff work correctly. Dewald might know more, & James Bowden, the program author, monitors this list, so I think I'll keep my mouth shut now so as not to insert foot any further & defer to them, since I'm just making a WAG or 2 anyway. On 12/29/11, André Baldo <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Turn on the keyboard; > 2) Press function button; > 3) press the category button 11 times til it gets to the option to send > style data to the computer; > 4) press the plus button; > 5) Turn on QWS and create a new track, and finally; > 6) press the start/stop button and here comes drums mixed with piano, > etc... > > Thanks for trying to help! > André. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dewald van Deventer > To: QWS list > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:38 AM > Subject: Re: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a > computer: > > > Explain to me what you do step by step. > Mine also does that sometimes, like when i load the "not yet split" file > into QWS, it plays everything as piano except the drums. > > Then is just set the number of the style on my keyboard, and it plays > back > alright. > > 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: André Baldo > To: QWS list > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:07 PM > Subject: QWS List Strange behavior between a keyboard and a computer: > > > Hello everyone! > > I have a Yamaha PSR-E413 keyboard and yesterday found out where to > configure it so that the style would be sent to the computer through the > USB > cable, thus being detected by QWS. The thing is that it seems to be > sending > the wrong instruments. What could be happening? Note that the channel in > QWS > was left at 0 so it would work, but when I did channel split, even some > drums were in the wrong place... > > Thanks, > André. -- Blame the computer--why not? 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