"This is why QWS, which deals with MIDI in the most native way of any sequencer, doesn't finish out measures like the other programs do -- when you stop recording that's where it stops, no matter where in the bar it is, and it'll finish out the beat but not do anymore beats after that point."
so this also explains a big problem I had before and why I only use qws rarely now. I had trouble with the other, smaller, off the wall time signatures like 5/8 . when you have an odd number of things like three of those 5/8 measures and then return to regular 4/4 time, qws throws the entire metronome off by an eight or quarter note. Then sure, you can use things like sync the current midi state or send the current changes with I think control q and w but nothing I did made the metronome stay on where it was supposed to be. This, sadly, made it impossible to do easy things like previewing sheet music I had written. I still use it with less complicated things though. For the rest of things and for what it is worth, even though its not the most functional in midi in accessible terms I am sticking to reaper, for some features, like: you can select many notes and edit them all at once, changing their pitch, length or whatever, even simultaneously. Or you can select all notes with same pitch with a single command and manipulate them as you wish. All of this without ever leaving the editing window. It is easier to use some vst's, change their parameters and just save that audio. Grid based editing is hard to get, especially if you come from a qws background, but its sometimes speedier and more effective when moving or quantizing things around, because you can do it all by assigned key commands and there are no intermediate dialogs to open, no number calculations to make (as in 0.96 ticks equals an eight note). Oh yes and those weird complicated time signatures do not throw your click off now. Now, once I say all of this I absolutely do not mean to take the merit away from qws. Its fine for some of the more elemental editing, for previewing midi files quickly, for only using midi for recording a quick mock up of something and it was the first sequencer most blind people ever used. I went so far as to translate its interface into Spanish seeing as I enjoyed it a lot. But as your musical career goals grow and your ways of doing things also grow and change because of demand, i would not exactly recommend it for the serious, ambitious or pro music production. Right. Forgot to mention that editing controllers and midi events in qws is certainly much much easier than in reaper. 2018-02-08 23:14 GMT-05:00, Nicole Massey <[email protected]>: > Yes, and sort of, both. > In QWS, the time signature is sort of layered onto the file to make it > easier for us to navigate around. There is no time signature in MIDI, as > everything is timed based on number of clock ticks since the start of the > song. This is why QWS, which deals with MIDI in the most native way of any > sequencer, doesn't finish out measures like the other programs do -- when > you stop recording that's where it stops, no matter where in the bar it is, > and it'll finish out the beat but not do anymore beats after that point. > This is important to keep in mind when copying and pasting things on > tracks. > What this means for your particular song is that when you record the chorus > you need to change the metronome to a 3/4 one and keep in mind that there's > a difference in number of beats. So, for instance, 8 bars in 4/4 equals 32 > beats, but the same eight bars in 3/4 is only 24 beats, so if your zoom > level is 4 beats per measure your eight bars in the chorus will consist of > only six bars. > Remember to change your zoom level back from 3 beats to 4 when you've > recorded your chorus, otherwise you'll have eleven bar verses with an > additional beat that will throw everything off in each chorus by a beat, > making clean copying of the track segments a major headache. And if you're > using something other than multiples of 4 for your verse and chorus lengths > then you'll have some calculating to do to make it work out. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Wells > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 8:16 PM > To: QWS list <[email protected]> > Subject: QWS List Changing Time Signature During Song > > Hello: I am attempting to record a song with 4/4 time in the verses and > 3/4 in the choruses. Is this possible with QWS? I have looked through help, > but I am not finding how to accomplish this. Thanks for all of the helpful > messages I read here. > 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] > -- Juan Pablo Bello Cel. 313-879-2884 To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
