Okay, now that I've gotten a chance to work with QWS, finally, (Took forever to dig through the garage to get my Axiom) I've gotten a chance to figure out how it works. There's always a learning curve. I had to bite the bullet and "read the friendly manual" to find out how to set up a track for recording, as my sequencer I've used for the past 23 years will let you just start recording on any blank track. Two things have thrown me off a bit. First, the metronome countdown doesn't differentiate beats to indicate the start of a measure until it starts recording. I found those beat differentiations help me get into the groove for the track. The second thing that caught me a bit off guard is that record initiates recording instead of arming a track to record. I'm used to hitting the record command, then telling it when to start through a key press, usually the play command. I haven't played with the synchro-start feature yet, but I plan to give that a try. I seem to be having a problem making it quantize things properly, but that may be a selection problem. I'm never quite sure where I am in the sequence, and I've deleted the wrong measure more than once. Attempts to select the entire track haven't made much difference to the sound of the track, and the lag issues I'm experiencing mean performances are a bit out of their proper place. I've got to find a better sound source for it -- this built in wavetable synth is driving me nuts with its lag problems, so I'm going to try Raymond's suggestion and also go through the stuff I have here for use with other stuff. Is there any way to get my M-Audio Axiom transport controls to start, stop, rewind, fast forward, etc? That would be quite nice and mean less taking my hands off the musical keyboard to go to the computer keyboard. The Axiom doesn't have enough space on it to put a computer keyboard on it like my Kurzweil K1000SE MkII Extended does, so I can't do this the easy way. Still, all that said, it's a nifty little program, and I love that it saves everything in standard MIDI files.
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