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Thank you for taking the time to reply. Now that I've spent a bit more time with Qtractor, I can clarify some of my positions:

1. A faster, more efficient workflow...

I must admit, I did miss the "shortcuts" menu, I was looking for the word "key" in there, like "hotkeys" or "keyboard shortcuts". That does address many of my concerns with editing, however, I still think that the workflow for editing MIDI could be made more efficient. For example, it would be nice to be able to draw a MIDI clip with the mouse, and not have to give it a name in a dialog window(perhaps just a generic name, which I could re-name later if I need to). The same applies to the dialog for merging clips, I think it should just be given a generic default name and not show a dialog window. Also, I feel it's preferable to be able to loop a MIDI item most of the time, rather than having to create many copies of it.

2. A more detailed user manual.

I'd be happy to contribute whatever I can to improving the manual :) I'll make my own copy of the .odt manual, and once I feel I've made some useful additions to it, I'll send it to you to review.

As far as the donation goes, that is for the work you've already done, I'm not asking anything specific in return for it. Any future donations I make will depend entirely on how Qtractor is progressing in overall features, stability and quality, sort of a "pay for performance" arrangement if you will...

3/4. plugins and ubuntu support

It turns out that Ubuntu (and probably most distros) just put the plugins in /usr/lib/vst, /usr/lib/ladspa, etc... So it's just a matter of entering those as plugin paths. IMHO, it might be a good idea to include those paths by default for each plugin type.

Overall though, I think Qtractor is a very nice DAW already, and it has a lot of potential to be even better.

Thanks,
Jeff