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G3N-es,

Just following up here to mention I took a fresh look at my toolbar choices. I'm going to find some time over the weekend to refresh my icons and will probably even cover some or all of those related to the toolbars mentioned. That said, I'll just mention why I'll most likely never enable these toolbars. Most of my decisions are based on an ongoing attempt to achieve the following:

• The most common operations should always be mapped to an easy to use and readily available shortcut.
• Less frequently used operations can be driven via the pull-down menu(s).
• Where a thing is redundant between the Midi Editor and Arranger windows, the thing should be presented (or made available) in only the window that makes the most sense.

So with those rules in mind...

File - Contents are redundant and the toolbar itself is only populated with a subset of what's available with via the File menu. Personally, I've never had to use any of these items from within the Midi Editor. The File menu associated with the Arranger window is obviously useful but the related operations are not frequently used during a session (only beginning and end). Therefore, the related toolbar, is just "taking up space" 99% of the time.

Edit - These operations are frequently used during a session. So much so, they warrant being mapped to speedy shortcuts and therefore, provide no value being made visible. The only real value within this particular toolbar is the icon that shows the current edit mode. In order to benefit from that value, we'd have to take on the other 5 icons which I'd never click on because a shortcut is just so much faster. Also, we've been chatting about that Edit mode icon in the other thread. I'm kinda still hoping that thing can be EOL'd and the current status be moved to how the cursor is displayed. Maybe that'll happen, maybe not. Either way, I'd personally never want to rely on having to "glance" at that icon in order to know what mode I'm in (would rather keep my eyes fixated on the actual thing I'm working on). Therefore, the entire toolbar strikes me as redundant and bloated.

Transport - I've never felt the need to drive the transport from the Midi Editor window. In fact, the only time I actually click on ANY of the transport icons relates to when I record (since we already need to click other things like R in a track, etc...). All other (more frequently used) common transport operations are better driven via shortcuts.

Time - Totally redundant. No need to see the same information that's already visible in the Arranger window.

Scale - I just don't use it.

The only toolbar that adds any real value to the Midi Editor window is View though if I could, I'd even remove the Event Viewer icon if I could.

But yea, I'm going to try to find some time this weekend to refresh the icons and I'll certainly give some serious thought to adding support for some of these bars.