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Dear Rui,

I'm trying to get used to Qtractor at the moment, and I have a huge problem getting started. While I understand that it might be up to the user to sort out connections to JACK, I find it an enormous hindrance that no template or instrument is included, and no links to such vital resources seem provided (please correct me if I'm wrong).

At the moment, it's impossible for me to check if Qtractor is working because despite it receiving MIDI data, I hear no sound because I don't have ANY instrument or effects available, and Qtractor didn't even ask me where I might have put them.

I guarantee Qtractor would gain a huge following if functionality could be checked right away with basic drums / piano. There must be some open source instruments available, but I'm having a hard time finding them.

On a side note, it doesn't seem like using the mouse to create MIDI files is an option, but not everyone who wants to make music is equipped with a MIDI master keyboard.

I hope I'll sort out my present problems and start working soon,

Thanks a lot for your work and for thinking about your users ;)

Best regards,

Smoke