I am looking for a new host, and EnergyXT seems promising, but misses some little things.. I know you are still developping it, but please focus on real time musical abilities.... mostly MIDI tools and arpegiator...

-needs MIDI velocity scaling/setting, either incorporated in your tools or in another new tool.

-the arpegiator does not pay well in real-time. it is not working the usual way; if I hold a chord, it stops playing as soon as I lift one finger. This is very unmusical... it is difficult to describe but just have it behave like an hardware arp. on synths.

-would be nice if eventually you have a chord track and a master tempo track. The master chord track could be used to modulate the arps and other midi tools, including auto-accompagnement tools.

-could also have key filter (remove/transpose midi notes that do not belong to a key, or chord when following the master chord track)

My goal is to split my master keyboard, on notes or velocity levels, possibily with zones fades...rescaling/translating/setting velocity, on each zone is important. Also trigger/gate MIDI sequences and mute them from keys, and use arpegiators to the max. in real-time, all with musical results...

Also in MIDI sequence recording, I want to loop a sequence, record notes into it (quantized), adding them, BUT REPLACE them if there was one previously under it. Some sequencers did that, but no software I know now. It is like I am the only one remembering about thoses...!!!

Anyway I have 20 years exerience with electronic music, used MIDI, digital audio, CV/gate analog setups, using MIDI controllers/VSti now, and I am still looking for a nice host. Cubase is not my solution. You are close... I do love Buzz, but it is lacking in midi. Anyway if you need help, I could design some midi modules that people would love... best of luck in your development.

Checkout my MidiNinja plugin for some features you might be interested in...you can find it on THIS page

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