Thanks for the confirmation! I guess I found that the inline editing fit my brain so well that I couldn’t imagine the point of a separate window.
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I tend to side with the rabble on this one. I dunno if it’s like this for others, but my use of midi editing tends to be really modal, I.e. I don’t need to see anything else when I’m editing a MIDI region, and while I am doing that editing, I like the piano roll nice and big so I am not clicking teeny weeny little notes or scrolling up and down all the time. In Ardour, I find using the F key to maximize the track height and collapsing it when I’m done to be a perfectly cromulent alternative, but I can see the appeal of a workflow that’s more like other DAWs.
The Analyzer sounds very promising!
“serious mice” 
I was going to make a separate post for this question but maybe this is a good place to ask (I apologize if I overlooked it mentioned above by other users).
Before trying Ardour I had the similar opinion as others about the piano roll being built into the editor, but through my tests I found to have a similar opinion to the developers, that it is pretty “awesome” and that there are many nice benefits with this approach. All the MIDI improvements over the years have also been very helpful with this as well.
My question is, in Ardour it is somewhat common that if two similar ideas exist that one of them will get removed, which is a concern with this topic.
So I was wondering, now that a new piano roll window will be included, are there any plans on removing the piano roll offered in the Editor?
I feel that they both have their benefits so hopefully both of them will remain.
I have a couple other observations I have made from recently testing the nightly version, but I will post them elsewhere.
No, there are not.
really? I was going to say the opposite. There are often more than 3 ways to accomplish the same task. Prime example for that is assigning track-groups…
Please read the pre-relase dialog that shows up when running the nightly before doing so
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And to reinforce that: the way things have been done at the code level was to significantly refactor things so that it is the same code being used when editing on the timeline or in a separate pianoroll window/view.
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