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Working with freecycle project files
That could be done, but I tend to see freecycle more like an offline processing tool. That is, you do your beat slicing and then export the product as a sampler articulation file (eg. SF2, for example, which you load into qsynth/fluidsynth), and then trigger the slices from qtractor as a MIDI sequencer. Have you tried this route? I believe this is the original intention of the freecycle program, but we really never know in advance how creative all you folks can be :)

IMO importing the audio file beat-slices into qtractor should be fun, but I think you'll end up with something that is not quite equivalent; yeah, you can have the sliced clips alright, but then you loose the DSP that freecycle offers and is hard to mimic or map in current qtractor signal processing path.

volume and pan curves to tracks
That's right, it's a planned feature. Not only for volume and panning, but also for any plug-in control parameter. Automation: record, playback and editing of any control parameter as an envelope curve.

The mixer idea doesn't hold very well though. There's one single reason: qtractor mixer is just a monitoring an control tool that assists in recording and playback within the qtractor session context. It is not intended to function as a generic mixer, that you might use to process external material. The pass-through feature of duplex buses might help in emulating what you're asking, though.

Regarding connection setup, qtractor already does its deeds and saves all bus ports connections on a session basis, all of which should be automatically restored later on.

Hope that answers all your questions, for now ;)
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela