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Great work, is impressive how this program is becoming a great midi sequencer day after day. In less than a year this may be the best sequencer in linux, and maybe better than Cubase, ProTools and the like (at least in the MIDI field). Great work in the manual too, something that most open source software lacks.

However, it lacks for a couple of things that make it unusable for me when doing complex things: one thing is a more advanced tempo manager, something like the rosegarden's one, but I've readed in the forums that this is something planned. The other one is a event midi editor, like in rosegarden again, for complex midi editing. Another thing, a very important one, but this may be a bug: HOW THE F@#! CAN I ADD A NEW CLIP IN A MIDI TRACK???!!! I've trying this since 0.1.0 version, and I can't. When I click somewhere in a new midi track, the markers are moved, the red one when using the right button and the blue ones when using the left button. But I'm unable to find a way to add a new clip so I can open it in the piano-roll editor. The only way I have found is importing an exiting midi file and copying and resizing the clips to my tracks.

And now some feature request: drawing midi events would be nice. Now, when you click in the event window in the piano roll (the thing at the bottom), a new event is made and you can change its value, like in every sequencer I know of, but I'm talking about drawing in that windows and new events are created, like in a drawing program. I think that REAPER (for windows/wine) has something similar.
Another idea, but this may be a long term objetive, and with more people/programs involved: instead of doing separate programs that you must configure to make work them together, or doing a huge app for everything (like cubase), which waste resources and are very underused, why not doing something in between? For example, a program (probably based on lash) where you can launch and configure different apps: you start a new proyect and open qtractor for doing some midi stuff, then you open qsynth and qsampler for listening to it, the a DAW for recording, but you can close the sequencer to avoid wasting resources, after recording you can close synths and samplers and open a plugin host for inserting effects, etc. From there main program you can configure connections, jack server, lash sessions and that stuff. The idea is making a sort of host for audio programs. Probably I have to explain this better.

The last thing: I have no time for doing anything, and I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I would like to help where I can. I could help in some trivial coding or doing spanish translation if needed.