Teac GigaStudio 3 - Manual (Page 292)

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Type: drum not *.wav
QS: “all files with drum as a keyword that are not .wav files”
Comment: just wanted to mention again that the star doesn’t effect this at all
Type: Gliss*.GIG AND ((Pete AND String) NOT (violas OR tremolo)) OR drum .GIG
QS: “gig files with both keywords “pete” and “string” but aren’t violas or tremolo and
also have a keyword that begins with ‘Express’” Oh, yeah, I forgot, give me all .gig files
with ‘drum’ as a keyword too”
Comment: You really don’t know what you want do you? Several things to note here-
The one single file operator effected the whole search, currently the engine does not
support searching for multiple file types unless you want all file types. The Control Word
OR, when not in conjunction with a NOT, opens up rather than narrowing your search,
which can result in a lot of unwanted hits, which is incidentally why OR is not the de-
fault operator, narrowing the choices to fit your intention is the point of a search en-
gine. Finally, CONTAINS searches as with ‘Express’ above are really useful when you don’t
remember how to spell the ends of all them there European music words...
Type: ((((Pete AND String) NOT violas) OR tremolo)
or
Type: Pete AND String) NOT violas) or tremolo)))))))
QS: Doesn’t crash, returns results of dubious usefulness.
Comment: You need to drink less coffee. QuickSound will handle badly formed syn-
tax but no guarantees on the quality of the result. generally if you open a bracket you
need to close it and vice versa.