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Hello again Rui,

I'm having such a lot of productive fun with your wonderful Qtractor app that I don't really want to criticise anything about it - it's that good! Even some of the 'quirks' (features?) can produce brilliant results (f'rinstance, recording the audio output whilst 'fast-scrolling' backwards in play mode ;-)

I am not a coder, neither do I have sufficient knowledge to get involved in SVN's or producing PPA's, so could you tell me when this new version will be turning up in Synaptic or a PPA for UbuntuStudio, please?

Where you say:-

"A new non-painting editing sub-mode has been introduced on the MIDI clip editor's piano-roll and is now set on by default"

...does this also alter the behaviour of the piano-roll editor when removing notes? It's probably user error on my part, but I do find it a bit disconcerting when the cursor 'auto-scrolls' to the end of a clip whenever I remove notes. On a long clip this can result in considerable confusion if I haven't remembered which bar I was editing ;-)

I'm also wondering what your plans are for the future of QTractor, because it seems to me you've already produced pretty much all that is needed in the way of functionality (yet you're still calling it alpha code?!? ;-) - perhaps just some ergonomics to smooth? (eg: Could Sysex be made more 'on the fly'; could it be easier and more immediate to 'write in and/or edit' controller data, preferably without having to first figure out which controller from your drop down list?); could there be a function to extend your excellent colour-coding scheme to bars as well as tracks - ie: 4,8,16 or 32 bar 'blocks' of different pastel shades along the top ruler? 'Icing-on-the-cake' stuff!)

Finally, could I second Louigi Verona's request to at least have the option to save piano-roll edits by default, perhaps with a new filename so edits remain non-destructive? Also to have the option to set up a new folder for each session instead of that seemingly redundant request for a filename before the system file selector comes up?

Oh dear, I think I'm beginning to 'tread on toes' now, despite my first paragraph, so I'll shut up and end by saying - 'QTractor is THE sequencer I have been searching for ever since my Atari ST packed up 23 years ago' ;-)

Obrigado muito muito, Senhor!