Yep, that's not uncommon for someone's first INST file. You've got some sort of error in it. We now know that it's not your name line, because that would make it not even come up. Check each line to make sure that you don't have a space before the name of each patch, as that'll do it. You can do this -- in the INST file opened in Notepad, hit Control+H and find a comma followed by a space, then replace it with just a comma. Go to Replace All and when it finishes tab once more to Cancel. Save and close, then open QWS up again and see if the error designation goes away. If it doesn't you're going to have to make sure it is all correct step by step. In this process you'll find yourself opening and closing QWS a lot -- because it loads the INST file each time as it comes up, you have to shut it down to force a reload, so it's easier if it doesn't lose the error code to just shut it down and open it up again after you save your modified INST file. Open the file and another instance of Notepad. Copy all of the patch definitions to the second Notepad file. Create a line that says this: -1,0,0Test Now save the file and open QWS and check to see if the error is gone next to the file name in the instrument list. If so then you've got a clean header block, and if not then open another INST file, like the GS one, and compare them to make sure you don't have any formatting weirdness. Next remove the test line you created and use the other Notepad file to copy about 30 lines and put them in the original file again. Save, open QWS, and see if your file comes up clean. Then keep doing this routine until you get an error, and that last group you copied will have your error. If you have multiple errors then you'll run into this many times, but check the second notepad file for anything you fix to help reduce the possibility of this. I know this is possibly slow going, but it's part of error checking. There are faster ways to do this, and it's one of the many reasons why I build my INST files in a combination of Notepad and Excel, but just using Notepad there's not much else you can do besides go through it in this step by step way. Questions?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Williams Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 1:27 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: QWS List Instrument list format I have checked the formatting as far as I can. When I look in the lists of instruments available in the menu, my instrument (DGX205) comes up with a message "DGX205 error loading". It reads the names of the other instrument lists as normal. I have a feeling what I'm doing wrong is something so obvious. Brian On 20 Jun 2016, at 7:06 pm, Brian Williams <[email protected]> wrote: Many thanks, I'll do that and get back to you. On 20 Jun 2016, at 7:03 pm, Nicole Massey <[email protected]> wrote: First, open an ini file for another instrument and make sure your header information and structure of the patch table is correct. Then save it and make the file name comply with the standard list name options. Then you want to save it in your c:\program files\QWS folder, assuming of course that you use C: as your primary local disk on your machine. Now open up QWS and go to the instrument entry on the settings menu (I think that's the right entry, if not someone else please correct) and check if it's in the list of possible options. If it isn't then you have a problem with your file. Open it up and check for any non-allowed characters, like question marks, extra commas, slashes of both types, asterisks, etc. If you don't find any respond back and I'll give you a trick to help to figure out just where the problem is. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Williams Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 12:57 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: QWS List Instrument list format I am trying to create an instrument list for Yamaha DGX205. I think I have done it but can't remember how to save it so that it comes up on instrumentalists in Qws On 20 Jun 2016, at 6:39 pm, Nicole Massey <[email protected]> wrote: They're ini files. What did you create a file for? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Williams Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 12:24 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: QWS List Instrument list format I am attempting to create and instrument list for my keyboard. Can somebody please remind me what file extension it should be saved with so that it appears in my list of instrument lists.. Many thanks and hope Brian I have created it in notepad.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] 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] 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] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
