Instrument definitions are *simple* if you use the method I posted here a while ago for doing them in Excel and Notepad. But yeah, compare them to the sound list first, because GM/GM2/GS/XG might be far easier.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul nimmo Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:35 AM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: QWS List Using qws with a Yamaha dgx-660. Hi, thank you very, very much. Yes I have the manual and it does have a patch chart and it's quite accessible so I will try all the below. I had a suspicion that 0 was omni but thanks so much for that. I put the piano on channel 1 but will definitely try the gm set before I dive into something as seemingly complex as creating my own instrument definition but if I do I'll submit it of course so others don't need to do so. Thanks so much for this. Cheers! On 2017-05-19 12:33 AM, Nicole Massey wrote: > Okay, since it's a Yamaha product you can find the manual online, because > almost everything they make has online PDF files of the manuals. You may need > a converter, like PDF to TXT, to convert it to something OCR'd. But if you > can find a patch list you can make your own INST file for it without much > problem. > That said, if it's GM compatible then you can know a nice set of things. For > one thing you're going to be able to use the GM sound set, which is a > standard definition file for QWS. Second, chances are good it responds to all > 16 MIDI channels, with the drums on channel 10. So try things out by pressing > ALT+Enter and changing the MIDI channel to 1. Then set your instrument > definition in QWS to GM for the port in question and press V until you get > violin, then arrow down to strings or Massed strings, depending on what the > particular file says. Press enter. Now press shift+Home and press the space > bar. You should hear string sounds instead of grand piano sounds. If you > don't then play with the program numbers and find out what you hear. This > will also prove that you don't have a GM compatible instrument. Also, if you > hear nothing then there's a MIDI channel issue, and you'll want to use the > MIDI channel entry in the track properties to find out what plays. Note that > many tracks will sound like a piano -- that's because that channel hasn't > gotten a program change yet, but you want to find out what channels are live. > Why does it always work with channel 0? Because QWS uses channel 0 for Omni > mode, so it'll send on all 16 channels when the channel is set to 0. Change > it off this to do any real troubleshooting. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of paul nimmo > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 11:03 PM > To: QWS list <[email protected]> > Subject: QWS List Using qws with a yamahah dgx-660. > > Hi all, ok, have been using qws for quite a while but really only using it > mostly with softwaare synths etc and hadn't used it for a few versions. > > Have a new yamaha dgx660 which I love so decided to give it a try with qws. > > It has usb midi and qws can see it as portable grand so I set it up for both > input and output. > > What I'm wanting to do is this. > > I laid down a piano track which went very well, no problem. > > What I'd like to do now is overlay some strings. Is there an easy way to do > this? > > I'm quite comfortable with reading manuals but don't see any documentation on > how this can be done, i.e. when you set up a new track everything is > basically set to 0 in properties. > > So I guess: > > 1. does anyone have an instrument file for the dgx660 or any of the dgx > series, I'm assuming they are similar? > > 2. Has anyone had any experience with these or similar instruments, for > example, will assigning theh instrument s a general midi instrument work, > docs for the 660 say it supports gm/gs and a subset of xg. > > 3. if not to any of the above, how do I tell qws what patch number I'm using > for my strings on the keyboard. > > 4. Last but not least, am I missing something in not being able to find any > documentation on this because I'm quite happy to go document diving in fact > it's a good wind down before bed etc. > > Thanks in advance to anyone able/willing to take the time to help here, I'm > trying to create something from the ground up for someone very dear to me and > I'd like this to sound good and go well, <smile>. > > Qws looks like the right tool for this job if I can only learn how to make it > fit, <smile>. > > Cheers! > > > 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]
