General MIDI editing workflows

I think the thing that would make for the greatest workflow improvement for midi related editing and automation is the suggestion I made previously. Ill repost part of it here because it got 4 votes and I really think this would improve a workflow by eliminating a couple button presses for me. Its literally moving the midi macro view into an effect device.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/116554#Comment_116554

Per step editing/automation/"p-locking" is a lot easier when I don't have to tab between two different menus.

I don't see simple mute/solo automation or retrospect/capture midi so listing here.

Pattern append/merge and split.

+1 for time stretch midi (double/half)

+1 for proper automation copy/paste and automation follows events.

Fix busted cop/paste behavior so it copies as expected without forward positioning and offset pitch.

You are right about the mute/solo.

Pattern append is different from the crop pattern request. What I mean is the ability to glue two different patterns together. I did forget to mention after touch support.

Maybe this is specifically Maschine Plus, as I don't use the software much...but my interest is in the M+ not the software.

As a user, I want to configure midi program change as part of the midi settings for each maschine sound channel.

In order to, ... recall programs and presets on external hardware by sending midi program changes immediately on project load. Midi program change should also be sent on "double tap stop". This would allow me to load a project and just press play. This would also greatly help anyone in a live performance situation because no one wants to do the "preset tap dance" just to start the next song with the right sounds/patches/samples/effects. It only gets worse and wastes more time when you need to do it on multiple hardware units.

Why I think this is relevant to the topic? This make it difficult to start or resume work on maschine plus. These features have been a part of almost every midi sequencer and daw I've used in my life but are missing from Maschine plus.

The "lock state" trick from Tetsuneko is how I finally got Maschine to do midi program change... but I should not have to do the lock state trick for project recall.

1: Sending midi program change on every pattern cycle leads to drop outs occasionally when a preset that is still sounding is called up a second time...cutting off the previous note. Any edit youve made to a sound gets reset on pattern play or loop. This also does weird things to programs with their own clock (e.g. arps) and can lead to dropped notes, stuck notes, muted voices, timing issues.

2: Double tap stop is not a custom feature in my opinion. In almost every other midi or digital audio environment I've used since 2000, double tapping stop: returns song position to zero (and sends this for midi clock, midi time code, and even smpte i think), sends note off to all midi channels, (re)sends midi program change on all channels. For the octatrack and mpc, it also stops all audio sample playback and all audio processing (flushes all effect tails). For the OT it mutes all audio channels until the first audio "trig" occurs after pressing play. For Logic, Live, and other DAWs, it does almost all of these things on double tap stop too.

I don't expect full feature parity. But if we are talking "general midi" functionality, its not too leftfield to expect this relatively standard functionality. I'm also not trying to be too harsh about this, but this is a real headache right now.