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Hi Alex,

It's really awesome to have you to try Qtractor. I am certain that you'll break it to pieces in no time :) Or haven't you already?

Ok.

Multiple midi channels per track.
Before you ask, there's one design flaw that Qtractor does suffer in deed: one MIDI track is synonymous to one MIDI channel. Yep, old-skull sequencing :) That's one rule. But, let's talk about something else. Tracks are routed to buses. Now I know that buses, in Qtractor at least, are not the same as you might know from other books. Failing to have a better naming, I just call MIDI buses as being the same as MIDI ports. So, one MIDI bus does have 16 logical MIDI addresses or channels to deliver. Delivering or rendering, as I prefer to call it, is exposed at an actual corresponding ALSA sequencer port. Yet another multiplexing feature to acquaint for, I know ;) So, put simple, you'll add and connect as many MIDI buses as multi-timbral samplers or soft-synths you have to swallow those MIDI notes that are spit out from Qtractor as a sequencer (reality speaking, those are actually fed by ALSA sequencer). Yeah, it's not as easy OOTB, but you're one hell of a power-user, so let's do it! >:) OTOH, as bottom line as your question could ask for, I'm afraid, you'll end with a straight NO! MIDI tracks are NOT multi-channel, quite the contrary, when dealing with MIDI, sorry.

I'll answer to your other issues later, so don't get away so soon ;)

Cheers
(and happy to have you on board, if only you cauld stand for the cruise, eheh)
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela