[Ardour-Users] help needed to ascertain a MIDI design question

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 22:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 13:56 -0500, seth burrows wrote:
> > 
> > Hey Paul
> > 
> > 
> > In REAPER when you drag the tail of the note over an already existing
> > note of the same pitch, it won't let you: it just ends the first note
> > at the point that the second note begins. 
> > 
> > 
> > If you drag the entire note over another note of the same pitch, it
> > deletes the note that occurs later in time.
> > 
> > 
> > Hope that helps some.
> 
> Yes, now I remember that I've seen this too, for some sequencers or perhaps for Reaper only?!
> 
> It would be better not to shorten the note for the graphic, because if
> you move it to another pitch, you might want to have legato, but Ardour
> should detect such legato of the same pitch and handle it this way.


Hm? Perhaps Qtractor does this too, but Rui often has the 'short blanket
syndrom'. He fixes something regarding to anchor issues and sometimes
the notes are not really at the wanted positions ;).