Qwerty input, or as I like to call it, dirty qwerty is tedious and more
time consuming than say, going down to the local music shop or online
store, and buying yourself a usb to midi interface.
The fact that you have a keyboard already is a bonus, and means that once
your midi interface has been setup, you will be able to start writing in
meer minutes.
In my personal opinion, I would suggest totally giving up on the qwerty
idea because unless you do everything very slowly or only want to make
fairly basic pieces, you will be spending more time playing the music in,
than you will making it sound good.
If you already have a midi interface in the form of a gameport lead, or a
usb connecter on the back of your keyboard, setting that up and starting to
make your music will give you much more satisfaction than attempting the
qwerty method.
Hopefully some of this info will help you a little.
From: dave Bond <[email protected]>
on Friday, December 26, 2008 2:35 PM
HI,
Well, I have just been introduced to QWS and am having trouble getting
started. I am a musician more in my dreams, and am interested in
"playing
around" with this for now. I am 53, and happen to be blind. QWS is, as
far
as I can tell, very accessible, but I'll need to do everything with
keystrokes.
I do have an old midi keyboard (full size keys with midi out ports only),
but I think I'll content myself for now by just creating some things
using
the computer's keyboard. That is, unless that is more difficult than I
think.
So, who would be willing to explain a few very basic things to help me
create a few measures of music! I thought I could insert a track, then
use
step record to get something going, but that didn't seem to work.
I'd also like to know if there's any hope of using my old Yamaha keyboard
to
input into QWS. Based on an article I read about connecting to the
computer/QWS, it seems like it might be possible.
many thanks.
Dave
P.S. I would be willing to call someone over the phone if that would
be
easier!
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
(Proverbs 12:15)
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