let's talk about MIDI regions

one idea that is in the air for Ardour 6.0 is to move away from the idea of
MIDI regions entirely. in the simplest terms:

pro-regions:
     makes editing MIDI more like editing audio
     allows easy copying of motifs, themes, drum fills etc. without having
to select stuff

anti-regions:
     greatly complicates the basic nature of MIDI tracks
     hard to overdub MIDI - does this create a new region, or edit an
existing one
     MIDI CC data ("automation") always needs a region, somewhat
counterintuitively
     MIDI data is much more discrete than audio, and can be easily
selected, then
          copied, moved, pasted etc.

without regions, a MIDI track would just be a single context for MIDI data.
each new overdub would add more MIDI data to that context (possibly
replacing or altering existing notes in the case of MIDI-illegal note
overlaps). edits would be done via cut-n-paste. MIDI CC data ("automation")
could be added to a track at any point.

discuss.

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