Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2019 11:12 pmSure, if you're 100% ITB and entering things into a piano roll, then a lot of that won't apply. But that's kind of the whole point too. MIDI is this big wonderful protocol for interfacing all kinds of different gear. Studio One just isn't good at that whole concept of interfacing with different gear. It was a seemingly deliberate design choice to say, "hey, we need to have virtual instruments in our DAW but don't want to write an entire MIDI implementation from ground up cause that will take too long, what else can we do?" So they created some kind of method for taking basic MIDI messages, turning that into some kind of internal protocol, and declaring their job complete. All these years later, all the things they didn't account for are exactly what makes S1 weak on the MIDI side.
I'm not trying to bash either: I was really hoping versions 4 to 4.5 would be all about improving MIDI. Now I hope version 5 will be. Presonus could continue to ignore it, but doing so would be at their peril as Cubase looks to improve its ease of use and workflow - taking direct aim at S1.
I think the point and the direction in which Presonus, with not only being a software company but also a hardware company was to move forward with their own innovations and systems rather than being held back by old legacy protocols. Here's one example...that takes that route.
https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One-Remote