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Chrisulrich
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Dear Anyone who understands Quick Score Elite OR SIMILAR NOTATION SOFTWARE!.
I'm hoping someone's had experience of notation software of some kind - I can't play keyboard because I'm disabled, have to use a mouse for everything. This might apply to other notation software too....
I use Sionsoft Quick Score Elite Level 2. There ISN'T a forum for QSE and I've got one huge prob. with QSE that I need an answer to so I can use it properly.
I've got 2 main multi-sound plug-ins I use with QSE. Sampletank 2.5 with Miroslav Orchestra and Proteus VX. Now if I choose a bunch of sounds from one of them, each sound comes up on its own little slider, complete with places to insert plug-in effects (like EQ and stuff.) One stave, one sound, one slider. So far, so pretty.
Except the sliders don't DO anything! The only one that does anything is the one the main synth. is on. That's the only one that takes any notice of the effects you use. Which means you're putting the SAME effect on the WHOLE SYNTH, not just on one instrument sound you've chosen from it. Yet the slider the main synth is on looks exactly the same as all the other sliders. The other sliders just slide up and down without changing the output sounds in any way. Neither do any effects plugins you put on the individual sliders change any of the sounds in any way. The only time they work is if you put them on the main slider that the whole synth. is sitting on - and then, of course, the effect's applied to ALL the sounds coming out of that synth, not just the single sound you want to alter.
Anyone got any idea WHY the sounds aren't obeying the sliders they're sitting on? Oddly enough, single-shot plug-ins DO obey the sliders perfectly. It's just the multi-sound VSTs who's sounds don't individually want to play ball. I know Sampletank's got a few effects built-in but they're pretty basic - one-band EQ for example - and my plug-ins do a lot more. And Proteus VX effects are VERY hit-and-miss - some sounds have built-in EQ, others don't, some sounds don't even pan (Grusty Guitar, for example - it never moves no matter what you do to it BUT it's got built-in EQ which is very useful!) But no individual sound from either - or any - package ever obeys the effects you put on the sliders. Right. Techie info that might or might not mean anything.
When you choose a VST in QSE, you get to either put it in an individual channel, or use All Channels. I've been sticking with All Channels because if I use an individual channel - and I HAVE read user guides on my legally bought software - I don't hear any sound coming out of the VST. Could the effect be only working on all the sounds because I've got them on All Channels, not an individual channel? I don't know enough to know if that helps.
What I DO know is that if you click on SOLO on ANY of the little sliders the sounds are sitting on, ALL the sounds from EVERYTHING go silent. You don't hear the sound you've soloed, you don't hear anything. Only if you turn Solo back off again do you then hear all the instruments at once (You can solo an instrument by clicking on its stave and pressing S, THEN you hear just that instrument, I just thought that what happens when you try soloing the sound in the SOUNDS OUTPUT section might have some bearing on the issue.
Anyone got any idea why?
I'm a REAL NOOOB with all this so if anyone answers - keep it simple. Please! If anyone needs more info to answer this, just ask me what info you need and I'll look it up on the program.
Yours respectfully
ulrichburke
I'm hoping someone's had experience of notation software of some kind - I can't play keyboard because I'm disabled, have to use a mouse for everything. This might apply to other notation software too....
I use Sionsoft Quick Score Elite Level 2. There ISN'T a forum for QSE and I've got one huge prob. with QSE that I need an answer to so I can use it properly.
I've got 2 main multi-sound plug-ins I use with QSE. Sampletank 2.5 with Miroslav Orchestra and Proteus VX. Now if I choose a bunch of sounds from one of them, each sound comes up on its own little slider, complete with places to insert plug-in effects (like EQ and stuff.) One stave, one sound, one slider. So far, so pretty.
Except the sliders don't DO anything! The only one that does anything is the one the main synth. is on. That's the only one that takes any notice of the effects you use. Which means you're putting the SAME effect on the WHOLE SYNTH, not just on one instrument sound you've chosen from it. Yet the slider the main synth is on looks exactly the same as all the other sliders. The other sliders just slide up and down without changing the output sounds in any way. Neither do any effects plugins you put on the individual sliders change any of the sounds in any way. The only time they work is if you put them on the main slider that the whole synth. is sitting on - and then, of course, the effect's applied to ALL the sounds coming out of that synth, not just the single sound you want to alter.
Anyone got any idea WHY the sounds aren't obeying the sliders they're sitting on? Oddly enough, single-shot plug-ins DO obey the sliders perfectly. It's just the multi-sound VSTs who's sounds don't individually want to play ball. I know Sampletank's got a few effects built-in but they're pretty basic - one-band EQ for example - and my plug-ins do a lot more. And Proteus VX effects are VERY hit-and-miss - some sounds have built-in EQ, others don't, some sounds don't even pan (Grusty Guitar, for example - it never moves no matter what you do to it BUT it's got built-in EQ which is very useful!) But no individual sound from either - or any - package ever obeys the effects you put on the sliders. Right. Techie info that might or might not mean anything.
When you choose a VST in QSE, you get to either put it in an individual channel, or use All Channels. I've been sticking with All Channels because if I use an individual channel - and I HAVE read user guides on my legally bought software - I don't hear any sound coming out of the VST. Could the effect be only working on all the sounds because I've got them on All Channels, not an individual channel? I don't know enough to know if that helps.
What I DO know is that if you click on SOLO on ANY of the little sliders the sounds are sitting on, ALL the sounds from EVERYTHING go silent. You don't hear the sound you've soloed, you don't hear anything. Only if you turn Solo back off again do you then hear all the instruments at once (You can solo an instrument by clicking on its stave and pressing S, THEN you hear just that instrument, I just thought that what happens when you try soloing the sound in the SOUNDS OUTPUT section might have some bearing on the issue.
Anyone got any idea why?
I'm a REAL NOOOB with all this so if anyone answers - keep it simple. Please! If anyone needs more info to answer this, just ask me what info you need and I'll look it up on the program.
Yours respectfully
ulrichburke