Hi, QWS will listen for MIDI messages on any channel and most likely is recording everything all the time.
First thing to do is to check in QWS exactly what you are receiving for the distortion effect. Try using the Event list for this. If it is a system exclusive message (the most likely case), then it is not a channel message. That means, it doesn't contain a MIDI channel as such and it doesn't matter what channel you are using in QWS. The system exclusive message may well contain specific instructions to your keyboard, that only your keyboard understands, to configure the effects processors for particular channels. You will have to consult the manual for your keyboard if this is the case to see if you can tweak the parameters of the sysex to make it work on other channels. Incidentally, you did not say what keyboard you are using. Another thing to consider is that many keyboards do not have 16 effects processors, you may have to select which channels respond to the effects processors ... and you guessed, this is also done with system exclusive messages. Personally speaking, on my synth, which has three effects processors, I have created a template performance that makes channels 1, 2 and 3 take the default effects from whatever sound I select. That means channels 4-16 do not have dedicated effects processors; I then have to arrange that sounds which rely on effects go on those first three channels. Hope this helps a bit. With best regards, James. On 13/06/2012, Alexander Westphal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > > When I create a new project with a track on CH01, switch something on my > keyboard, like a distortion, what I found out today, it works. Now when > I create a second track with another instrument on another midi channel > and I also want to change effects, it does not work. Now I found out, > that my keyboard sends data on midi channel 1! Do I have to change the > channel manually on the keyboard or can I tell QWS to listen on another > channel for such messages? > -- > Best regards > > Alexander Westphal > 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]
