The piano roll is something of a turn off. I do wish I could extend the height to greater than just under half my screen. Especially with velocity visible, the actual piano roll height is just over 20% of my screen height. This means scrolling the piano roll vertically is more often needed, or keeping it compressed enough that it is hard to work with. It is easy to toggle the velocity info visible or hidden with a key so that helps but I would rather just be able to stretch the track to the full screen height.djsubject wrote:there are a few of us that dislike T2's midi editingsuperddman wrote:but how can you work with MIDI? everytime I look at the piano roll I get a turn off. do most people get such impression the first time?
but midi editing dose have all the tools you need
& the rest of the program makes up for it IMO
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Subz
I disagree that all the tools needed are there. Needed of course is a subjective term, but the lack of aftertouch is one glaring omission.
There are also no tools for randomization of velocity or note position. If you want to select some notes to quantize only them, there is no percentage quantize. It would be handy to have more tools to manipulate velocity and cc data. For example, if I want to increase the contrast between the lowest velocity and highest of a group of selected notes while maintaining all the notes overall relationship, there is no means to do this. Another example would be an additive sine function to add vibrato like effects
There is no means to select cc data and copy it to repeat say the movement of the mod wheel or other controller. You cannot display more than one cc value at a time which is a pain when editing live performance.
Tools for the manipulation of velocity and cc data are rudimentary.
I would like to have more flexible control over notes. As one example, to be able to auto extend each note end to the start of the following note, or some percentage.
There is no simple save midi clip to library function.
All of these things can be accomplished manually and a few with reasonable workarounds, but they add up to a midi environment that is far from what I would hope for.
That said, I still would not trade Tracktion for other hosts avaiable on the Mac. It's amazing ease of opening a project, and just getting to playing some music and trying out new ideas is so satisfying. Hopefully, Mackie will have someone who loves midi working on the program and a year or two from now it will be much better in the midi department.
. OK I know, I'll be buying a shiny box soonish.