Weird behavior upon expanding/shrinking MIDI tracks

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hi everyone!

I am having problems with MIDI editing. When I do MIDI in Ardour I usually click on the track header and then press the F key to “expand” it so I can see the notes. But I’ve noticed something about this has changed since Ardour 9 released:

  1. Upon pressing the F key the track will expand but the notes will look really thin (they’ll be barely visible) and this doesn’t change until I scroll up or down or resize the track again. Furthermore, when I double click the track header to shrink it back, the notes on it will look very big. None of this used to happen in Ardour 8.12.0.

  2. When the track is expanded and I double click on any note on the left it will zoom in/out and I don’t remember this happening in the Ardour 8.12.0 either, but it really bothers me because it’s very easy to accidentally resize it when I don’t want to. Is there a way to turn this off?

If needed, I can provide some images to show what I mean.

Any help is appreciated!

#2

The code that handles note ranges and note sizing was radically overhauled for 9.0. Unlike the code in 8.x, there are no longer off-by-one-pixel errors but at the same time it has become much less satisfactory in other ways. Work on this will be a focus for the 9.3/9.4 releases.

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#3

Also the midi note height in pianoroll and buttom pane seems too limited to me.

#4

There’s a user preference for the maximum note height … and the lower limit is 1 octave displayed

#5

Great! That’s what I was looking for.