Nicole, I am new to the list. Can you tell me a little about QWS. I am trying to write midi files on a Mox8 and am having some problems and I'm wondering if this mite be a better option for me. Also what is the cost? Is there a website?
Thanks, Terry Nord -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Massey Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:38 AM To: QWS list Subject: RE: QWS List Instrument table for M-audio Delta? Yes. There are a lot of GS and GM sound font collections that will cover the general MIDI patch list, so that's a good option for you with BassMIDI. The Proteus VX also has a great mix of sounds, including some nice pianos and winds. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Goldstein - Resource Center Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:04 AM To: QWS list Subject: Re: QWS List Instrument table for M-audio Delta? Thanks very much. I knew that I wouldn't get sound directly out of the Delta itself--I just didn't know how to phrase it. It's good to know so much is available, especially that Midimag has some of them. I'm really not interested in fancy sounds. if I had a piano and English horn sound I'd be fine, but let's say, something roughly equivalent to the kinds of standard GS sounds like what was on the old SoundBlaster. Is there a setup that would involve only a few files of various types that could be copied into one folder? This "virtual midi cable" idea sounds interesting. A real MIDI cable doesn't do much on its own, so I take it it's something that grabs the midi and sends it to the soft synth? Feel free to write to me offlist at [email protected] if it gets beyond what should be on a list. I'm happy to accept recommendations of where to go and what to download and how to proceed. I just want to get this workable enough to play with and perhaps demonstrate. Thanks for your help already. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 5:25 PM Subject: RE: QWS List Instrument table for M-audio Delta? There are two popular options, but first let me address something. The Delta series of audio cards don't have any sounds of their own -- they're exclusively audio interfaces. So you can route things out of it, but don't bother trying to make it make a sound on its own. The first option is with a driver. Bassmidi is popular and much lower latency than the GS Wavetable Synth, but you'll need soundfonts in the SF2 format to populate it. There are a lot of great options for this, and there are sites with boatloads of sound fonts, including the Midimag FTP site. The other option is to use either a virtual MIDI cable or VST hosting program. MIDIYoke and VSTHost both do this. I use the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI router here. Then you can use stand-alone (for MIDIYoke or the Sonic Foundry apps) or VST's for the VST hosting program. You can find free VSTs and stand alone synths on the web. I personally like the Proteus VX program, which is freeware. (I also have an inf file for it, too -- it doesn't handle banks the way you'd expect) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Goldstein - Resource Center Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 1:52 PM To: QWS list Subject: QWS List Instrument table for M-audio Delta? Hi. I am playing around with QWS and hope to be using it seriously soon. I run a resource center for blind musicians and have been attracted by its ease of use and accessibility in more ways than one. I wonder whether you could give me guidance on how to get simple instrument sound files that would work better than what I'm getting through the Microsoft GS Wavetable and the cheap default sound card on my computer. There's just too much latency. I don't have a MIDI keyboard with built in sounds hooked up at the moment. My computer has a second sound card, an M-Audio Delta, which I have been using with Cakewalk Sonar and its soft synth generated through the Asio audio drivers. The QWS manual mentions that there are instrument files around on the Internet that could do a similar thing for QWS. Where could I get such files, what do they look like, and what's involved in installing them? Is it possible I already have what I need, courtesy of some directory in Sonar? the instrument table I'm using when I run Sonar is a Sound Canvas emulator called TTS-1. I was also wondering whether you were aware of problems opening the rich text manual on your site with Microsoft Word (I have Office 2003.) I started going through the trouble of opening it in my text editor and getting rid of backslash commands (globally) until I was inspired to try WordPad, which opened it perfectly. 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