Re: [Qtractor-devel] Recording/Playing Program Changes

[Ralf M. <ral...@al...>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:42:06 +0000, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>if you want to have different instruments to play you'll need to split
>into separate MIDI tracks *and* different MIDI channels of each own.
>
>so, everything is working as designed ;)

I criticised this years ago. It doesn't comply with the MIDI standard.
If a musician wants to live record and play back the MIDI
recording, splitting a track not necessarily does the trick. Some
sounds require to do the program change at a well-defined position in
the time line. For example, the DX7 factory preset ST.HELENS requires a
program change to the factory preset EXPLOSION. A split track, one for
ST.HELENS and another for EXPLOSITION won't work, since you need to
play one note and do the program change. Let alone program changes to
immediately stop e.g. a vintage delay, for example of a SPX 90 II.