0007461: [Workflow] Consolidating MIDI regions trims the end of the resulting region

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007461	ardour	other	public	2017-08-30 11:20	2020-08-09 19:08

Reporter	unfa	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Ubuntu	OS	Linux	OS Version	Maverick
Product Version	5.10

Summary	0007461: [Workflow] Consolidating MIDI regions trims the end of the resulting region
Description	I found that Consolidate region works a bit differently on Audio and MIDI regions. For audio - I get a region that is exactly as long as my selected region. For MIDI - the end of the region is automatically trimmed to end with the last contained note. I'd personally prefer to not have the resulting region trimmed, because when I consolidate a few bars (precisely snapping region boundaries to the bar lines), to then duplicate them with Shift+D. I need to correct the length before duplicating, or my duplicates will be offset from the bar grid and not fit the beat of my music. If Consolidate didn't trim, but just put the end of the new MIDI region where the original region selection was - I'd have one step less to do with such operations. Do you think that's a good idea? Or maybe someone's workflow would break if that was changed? To trim or not to trim?
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unfa 2020-08-09 15:36 reporter ~0024910	Bump! I think the end truncation is not expected behaviour - with Audio regions, Consolidate Range doesn't truncate end silence, so I expected the new region to have the same extents as my selected range when triggering "Consilidate range". I'm attaching a screenshot - the tracks represent 1. Input 2. Operation 3. Results Truncating silence could be a nice function on it's own both for audio and MIDI regions though! What do you think? Screenshot_20200809_173111.png (32,211 bytes) Screenshot_20200809_173111.png (32,211 bytes)

x42 2020-08-09 19:08 administrator ~0024912	I do not know what motivated this, but this has a nice side-effect that in case there are no events in the range, empty regions are not created.

Date Modified	Username	Field
2017-08-30 11:20	unfa	New Issue
2020-08-09 15:36	unfa	File Added: Screenshot_20200809_173111.png
2020-08-09 15:36	unfa	Note Added: 0024910
2020-08-09 19:08	x42	Note Added: 0024912