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Originally Posted by schwa
That may or may not be beyond the intended scope of the notation editor in REAPER. At present, the notation editor provides a view of persistent MIDI data, which you can edit. But the usual purpose of written notation is to provide a guide for the performer to interpret. Should we provide a faithful* view of the data, or let the user make individual cosmetic edits that only affect the notation view without changing the underlying data? For now, we are focusing on getting the faithful view correct.
* There is already display quantization, to prevent freely played MIDI as being displayed as an endless series of tied 256th notes, so one could argue that we're already not displaying the underlying data faithfully.
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IMHO, the notation view should faithfully display and edit MIDI data, with the added feature of display quantization for cleaning up the display. Any cosmetic changes which would deviate from the event time, duration, or pitch of the original MIDI events within Reaper should only be allowed outside of Reaper, in a graphical notation publishing program.
I've been waiting for years for a MIDI notation editor in Reaper, especially one which handles tuplets without arbitrary limitations regarding emedded rests or ties. But I strongly feel that it should be a MIDI editor first. Having said that, I'm all for rudimentary printing and music xml export/import. (Along with other FR's already mentioned.)
I am knocked out by what Schwa has accomplished and continues to tweak. I'm certain there are some large, well funded DAW companies who would have given a left body part for his talents.