Basslint wrote:Thanks, nice to meet you as well! And thanks for the suggestion. I too struggled with Ardour's MIDI capabilities in the past but now I think it has gotten it down, that's why I switch to it. What do you think Ardour is lacking right now in terms of MIDI capabilities?
Well, the piano roll just felt so limited, elementary, slow & clunky to work with when I tried it last (2-3 months ago). You can't see the velocities of midi notes at a glance, for example. In other programs you can see the velocity of notes right underneath them and easily select one or multiple notes and drag the velocity up and down - same with other parameters. Have a quick look at the top picture here to get a visual idea of what I mean:
https://www.image-line.com/support/flst ... noroll.htm
And yeh, I'm an FL Studio user which probably has the best piano roll in the game so it's no wonder I think like this
But still, out of all the DAW's I've tried (loads of them), Ardour has been my least favourite for midi. Midi is a new function in Ardour though so I'm not writing it off or anything.
Tracktion Waveform is probably my favourite native Linux DAW I've tried so far (it's possible I'd like bitwig studio better if I spent more time with it but I'm not even interested as the pricing/upgrade plan is too much for me). Tracktion 7 is free so you can always get that, but I think the newer "Waveform" versions are better as I like the piano roll better in those versions:
https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform
Like bitwig, Tracktion also do this "new major version every year" thing which I hate. It's purely a business practice to keep reselling the same product every year and just doesn't make sense for any other reason. A new version shouldn't be forced out every year, only when a new version is really ready and has some major updates rather than small, incremental changes and bug fixes. Their software is pretty buggy too. It wouldn't be as bad if you didn't have to buy the new version
every year (assuming you want the latest updates), but that's not the case. I do pay for software and never pirate anything so it's not that I don't want to pay, I just don't like that kind of business model. That said, Tracktion Waveform is fairly cheap so it's not as bad as other DAW's with this
subscription like model.
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