Features/Capability vs Limited but more comfortable and fun to work in

[funky lime]

Personally, for midi editing which is what I do mainly, I don't find it the smoothest experience, despite heavily customising it. It's perfectly usable. The zoom behaviour in the midi editor when switching between midi items is an example of things that I find irritating.

Have you tried the MIDI Editor Magic scripts? I work almost entirely in MIDI, and that package solved that exact problem for me. Now every clip opens to exactly fit the content by default (I changed the Mouse Modifiers -> Media Item -> Double Click default action to run the script, as suggested in the thread), though this is only one of many options available. And I have a few shortcuts and/or toolbar buttons in the MIDI editor to run other versions of the script for various other use cases.

I used to dread MIDI editing in Reaper years ago but these days it's second nature. And not to talk about fight club, but the MIDI side of things should be getting even more love from the devs very soon.

[mgiambro]

I have nothing whatsoever personal at stake. You just invented that bit. Do you know what "a strawman" is? it's ok if you don't, but learn to read: I said what_you_wrote is a strawman looking for an argument to call home. It means there was no case of a DAW that is feature-rich but a drag to us and there was no case of a cut-down feature-poor DAW that's "fun".

I's beyond unnecessary to make it personal. But this was such a boring exercise that now that you show *yourself* I know from specificity to avoid the shit.

Thank you for the patronising response. You've obviously taken exception to the thread, hence your initial passive aggressive response. That's why I said you seem to be personally afronted by it.

And yes, I do know what a straw man is. I only skim-read your posts enough to see they are hostile.

[mgiambro]

Personally, for midi editing which is what I do mainly, I don't find it the smoothest experience, despite heavily customising it. It's perfectly usable. The zoom behaviour in the midi editor when switching between midi items is an example of things that I find irritating.

Have you tried the MIDI Editor Magic scripts? I work almost entirely in MIDI, and that package solved that exact problem for me. Now every clip opens to exactly fit the content by default (I changed the Mouse Modifiers -> Media Item -> Double Click default action to run the script, as suggested in the thread), though this is only one of many options available. And I have a few shortcuts and/or toolbar buttons in the MIDI editor to run other versions of the script for various other use cases.

I used to dread MIDI editing in Reaper years ago but these days it's second nature. And not to talk about fight club, but the MIDI side of things should be getting even more love from the devs very soon.

Thanks for the tip. Will definitely check those out.