You can do a lot of the work in making an instrument definition file using Excel, and it gives you both a high level of control in what is in the file and also helps with error checking. QWS doesn't like missing data and it'll return an error on the file if something is missing, so you can see fast if something's amiss in Excel, far faster than if you try to find it with a text editor. The slight modification that would make this even easier is if QWS accepted tabs as well as commas for definition files. Then it'd involve far less steps and delay and it'd make error checking far faster. But I don't know what it would take to do this with the program, and James has limited time to work on QWS these days.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Wells > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 12:38 PM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List QWS Casio CDP200R Instrument Definition > Configuration File > > Thanks for this. I do believe this or something like it is how Lila is > doing it. > On 12/24/2014 12:04 PM, Nicole Massey wrote: > > There's a fast way to fix this if you have Excel. > > Open the Inst file. On the first line of the sound list replace the > > comma with a tab key press. Back up to the number before the tab and > > highlight it, the tab, and the number after it. Press Control+C to > > copy the three characters (Notepad treats a tab as a single > character) to the clipboard. > > Press Control+H In the find box place a comma. Paste the number, tab, > > and other number in the replace box, then remove both numbers. Tab or > > shift tab to Replace All. Go make a sandwich, as this may take a > while. > > Press Control+A and Control+C. Open Excel and press Control+V to > paste > > it in. This should get you a set of columns with data in them, and if > > you had things sitting on cell A1 then your bank number should be > > column C, with Column D as your program name. > > In cell E1 type this: =c1*128 and press enter. Now copy this cell and > > go to the end, then highlight the entire column from your last row to > > E1 and paste the values in. Highlight the entire row from E1 all the > > way down. (Use > > Control+Shift+down arrow to do this) Copy to the clipboard (Control C > > Control+Shift+again) > > and move the cursor to cell C1. Hit the context sensitive menu key > > (the one next to your right control key) and arrow down to Paste > > Special. Press the down arrow twice to get to "Values" and hit enter. > > You should have the right values in your bank cells now. Delete row > E. > > Press Control+end to go to the end, then press Control+Shift+Home to > > select everything. Paste it into Notepad, then reverse the trick you > > did to convert commas to tabs, so it turns all your tabs into commas > > again. Save the Inst file and open it in QWS, making sure it works > > correctly. Then close Excel and don't bother saving anything. > > This is far faster than trying to do it by hand, and trying to use a > > find and replace in Notepad to change these will also change program > > numbers, which you don't want. > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > >> Of Richard Wells > >> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:22 AM > >> To: QWS list > >> Subject: Re: QWS List QWS Casio CDP200R Instrument Definition > >> Configuration File > >> > >> OOPS! I'll bet my Privia PX-350 M is wrong as well. We will > >> investigate further and send you a corrected file. > >> On 12/24/2014 12:48 AM, SethJ wrote: > >>> Thanks. Unfortunatly, you forgot to multiply the bank MSB numbers > >>> by > >> 128. > >>> For some reason, Casio only gives you the MSB number, and not the > >>> combination, like Yamaha does. Therefore, if you take the preset, > >>> "-1,4,2,Elec.Piano", you would get, "-1,4,256,Elec,piano". . > >>> Thanks for doing this, though. I started making my own instrument > >>> list, but I've only had time to get through the basses. If you > >>> don't have the time to fix it, I could do it as well. I find > coding > >>> rather fun, and it shouldn't take me too much time. > >>> Seth > >>> > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > >>> Of Richard Wells > >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:38 PM > >>> To: QWS list > >>> Subject: QWS List QWS Casio CDP200R Instrument Definition > >>> Configuration File > >>> > >>> Hello Seth: My wife was able to obtain and use the .pdf for your > >>> synthesizer. She has created a complete instrument definition > >>> configuration for qws attached to this message for you. Please let > >>> us know how it works, since we do not have this synthesizer to > test. > >>> Thanks On 12/19/2014 11:12 AM, Seth Lowman wrote: > >>>> I don't necessarily need the instrument list for the PX 350. i > >>>> would like the one for the Cdp200r though. i've tried to make the > >>>> list myself but Casio doesn't make their data lists very > accessable > >>>> for visually impaired users, so I was unable to obtain the > required > >>>> information. if someone could help me with this I'd be extremely > >>>> grateful! 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