[Ardour-Users] MIDI interference

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:38 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:05 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> writes:
> >> > To be honest, our workflow in this area is pretty horrible. In the
> >> > future, Ardour will default to "overdubbing MIDI writes into an
> >> > existing region", which will clarify what is going on, and allow
> >> > correct resolution of note on/off pairings.
> >>
> >> Maybe "transparency" should work in that manner (or be configurable)?
> >> I mean, I have no idea how to merge CC messages usefully, but at
> >> least note on/off could likely be combined in smarter ways.
> >
> > It's a deeply complex problem, and isn't part of the workflow most
> > users appear to expect anyway, so we will probably not bother to try
> > to improve it. MIDI is just different from audio, and it makes more
> > sense to "overdub into a region", where we can use logic we already
> > have in place for merging and resolving MIDI data.
>
> I wasn't suggesting to use different logic, I was proposing that
> "transparency" uses the same logic in an ad-hoc manner (which may mean
> creating a cached merged region under the hood as an implementation
> detail), leaving the original MIDI regions alone for independent
> manipulation (which may trigger regeneration of the cached merged region
> when it is needed).
>

I understood what you meant. What you describe, as well as the 3 or 4 other
solutions we've considered, all remain deeply complex even if for the user
all appears simple and obvious.



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