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"...+in midi editor, have the ability to switch display to fixed note length (sort of drum-view)
- that might be possible soon, yes...."

this gets us to 3.5/4.

Now, the last bit:
"...drums are usually set to the MIDI channel number 10. You might choose another ..." this is really easy with today's technology (assign any midi/drum voice to any channel). In Qsynth, for example, you just go to channels, double click to any channel and assign anything you want from that soundfond. One can even save the settings (give a 'preset name')

"..whether it can comply with a GM standard..." really, no one is using GM Standard these days anymore. "No one" - an audio (computer) recording musician who decided to make decent drum tracks. GM standard is useful to get a song going, as a sort of demo, but as soon as that stage is finished, one gets to the deeper level of taking serious care about the drums. I am speaking from a professional musician's point of view.

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"...+be able to edit these three midi tracks in ONE midi editor window
-this is where Qtractor falls short to the intended requirement: currently, there can only be one MIDI editor instance per MIDI clip; it is the MIDI clip the object of editing, not tracks, not less nor more...."

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"...All that to say that there's probably little purpose in splitting drums over several tracks, at least in Qtractor and give its current one-track-one-channel model...."

This is the battle of Faith and Practicality.
Faith: Why do it? Is it any purpose in it?
Practicality: Is it possible to do it?

I can answer the Faith question: why do it? to me, that is the same question/answer as for (y)our general involvement in Linux audio: why do it? Why are you doing all this? Why am I spending time testing and feebacking? Why the Linux community does what it does... Why am I insisting on this feature so much?

The answer is, we all believe that we are giving something valuable to the humanity (there is more to it, of course). But instead of putting money to charity, we use our talents.
And I strongly believe that a dedicated drum-editor-multi-channel track will make great difference in the whole perception of Qtractor, especially now that it has the amazing tempo/time signature feature built in.
And will also give 'weight' to Qtractor, as it will be a fairly rounded DAW.
And it might make it a leader in the Linux audio community as no DAW has this extremely important feature.

Wow, so much philosophy in so little space. Need holiday. 'See you' in april.

Viktor