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1. Transport control [...] should be on the interface somewhere.
Noted. Sometime soon there will be some new toolbar buttons for the switch. OTOH, the session restart question is already being dropped... now.

2. Dragging files in No Grid setting is hard.
It might be harder depending on the zoom level for the session track view (main canvas). When snap to grid is set to None, all graphical resolution unit is reduced to the pixel and that might be to rough of a grid for you to work with, specially if you're working in extreme zoom-out levels. To take finest control on where your clip is actually placed, you'll have to edit the clip start position by-hand, in the clip properties dialog -- see menu Edit/Clip/Edit... on main menu for audio clips or File/Properties... on piano-roll windows for MIDI clips.

3. Backward has a shortcut - Backspc. How come Forward does not?
That's easy indeed: have a go with Help/Shortcuts... dialog. You can set any key combination to whichever menu action there is and stay with it (it's global application configuration, not session/project scope).

4. Piano roll is still very dificult to work with.
a). When you change the grid settings, change the visual grid itself
I guess you missed that option or are using a very old Qtractor version. Have a look at View/Snap/Grid option on the piano-roll's window menu.

b). Allow dragging notes during placement vertically, between notes.
I'm afraid I don't quite understand this one. Can you try explaining it with greater detail?

c). Don't ask to save midi clips.
It is asking to save MIDI clips because those are actions that are actually destructive -- you're committing your changes to disk but there are some situations that you want to get them saved in a brand new file than the original, otherwise undo might just not help you there, so beware:). Anyway, in what situations exactly do you want to let it save changes automagically without asking any questions? maybe that can be arranged ;)

d). Copying is hard.
Do you have any suggestion in particular, specially regarding the floating copy/paste selection placemente and on how you could see this being any softer to work with? Have you tried to use keyboard arrow keys as placement helpers instead of just the mouse ?

e). If a note is placed at Beat/2 and the current setting is Beat, quantize the note relative to its current position
I beg to disagree on this one. Quantization (ie. snap) is always relative to the whole metronomic grid, never relative to any previous note position. Or so I think ;)

what's the difference between Transport mode Full and Master?
Full means that qtractor can act both as Master and Slave. A master is responsible to maintain timebase information to all other (slave) applications to which they will sync and react. Given that JACK transport design allows any client application to control the global transport state (eg. start/stop rolling) the option of Qtractor being Slave refers to the possibility of its own internal transport state being controlled by any other JACK transport client or ignore any request on that matter. For instance, if set to Master (ie. not Slave) Qtractor will not react to any transport changes requested by any other application (eg. QjackCtl, JAMin, Hydrogen, etc.).