List of all new Midi functions in the past 2 years

Alston Release - January 2015 - Pattern Tool
Alston Release - January 2015 - Midi Time Stretch
Alston Release - January 2015 - PRV Zoom
 

Pattern Tool is part of the Alston Release. It's that paint roller tool, where you can copy and roll out the pattern.

Was that in Alston or before?
 

When was that added?

Here's a few.
 
Pattern Tool
Onscreen Virtual Controller
PRV Enhancements
The new PRV features more realistic piano keys, optimized vertical zoom resolution, and many other improvements.
MIDI Enhancements - in many of the updates
SONAR now allows for MIDI time-stretching, velocity layering, and additional functionality to make editing MIDI even easier.
50 fixes and enhancements for the Piano Roll View in Cambridge, more in Dorchester and most updates sinceetc etc
Better Drum Maps

Thats the time span you indicated. However there were others through the months. Some in 2016. Then again you asked me to show when the PRV zoom was implemented and I did. Its unreasonable to then say it was fully two years ago. It seems that you have a view that even against the evidence will still hold to your faulty premise.   

iirc, the most recent midi changes happened around @SilkTone's reports?

Kamikaze
So again, two years ago, not really in the last two years, It's January 2017 now. Nothing has happened since Alston with any new MiDI editing functions.
 
I had missed the very bottom of the screen when I posted, my firefox has been loading funny this evening, but it's all two years ago.
 
Hopefully they add something before the end of this month, So I can't make a post i February listing nothing in the last two years.
 
 

Two years ago isn't in the last two years? Who knew?..

Several of the ones I listed came after Alston, but I guess we see what we want to see.

As for genuinely new features as opposed to enhancements (which is entirely different to bug fixes), perhaps there are limits to what else can be done.

jb101
Here's a few.
 
Pattern Tool (Alston)
Onscreen Virtual Controller (Not really)
PRV Enhancements
The new PRV features more realistic piano keys, optimized vertical zoom resolution, and many other improvements. (Alston)
MIDI Enhancements - in many of the updates (Fixes, but not new functionality)
SONAR now allows for MIDI time-stretching, velocity layering, and additional functionality to make editing MIDI even easier.(Alston)
50 fixes and enhancements for the Piano Roll View in Cambridge, more in Dorchester and most updates sinceetc etc (Fixes)
Better Drum Maps (Okay maybe, I don't use to know how it changed)

So with the exception of the drum map changes, which aren't really helping editing, which is the functionality I'm getting at. It's 3 things two years ago all in the Allston release.
 
The Keyboard doesn't really expand functionality, unless you are on the move.
 
In the 2 years since the release and I did in my OP mention Alston,  PRV, SS and Staff View have had nothing added. There is another post running at t he moment talking about controller data being more clumsy than in 8.5. Yet the demand for these functions has increased for many users with more and more capabilities of Orchestral Samplers.
 
We are not seeing new features and functions for editing MIDI, we are seeing fixes, but my title indicates functionality. The drum maps and do help with the set up, but it's not helping beyond that.

ralf
 
But then, what would be needed? A better drum map editor and improvements for staff view (triplets, staccato, and several other) would come to my mind. After all, midi is a pretty old standard and midi editing is well supported in Sonar.

I see a few MIDI ideas over here that would be nice to have ...
 
http://bakery.cakewalk.com/Ideas/Views

Enhancements are not fixes.

Kamikaze
The chord track another feature that was popular. I've long requested a midi chord device, but I've never used Cubase, so I don't know the chord track, and if that would serve the purpose, but I think it's along the same lines. Both ideas received a lot of votes.
 
There has been a lot of fixes. a lot of integration advancements, such as ARA (which is amazing), but the focus for me feels like it towards mixing. Many are in favour of this, but in the compositional side, there has been improvement to audio, not to MIDI. I personally think the balance is off. It's not like MIDI is dying, the soft synths and samplers are more capable than ever, and what they can produce is still advancing. 
 
Admittedly ripple editing would fall into both MIDI and Audio functionality.
 

I'm going to check out the demo of Cubase Elements 9 when it is released in a few weeks.  I downloaded the user guide, and after looking over the MIDI section on the MIDI chord track, the chord features, plus the arranger track, it might be useful for composition work.  Then just export the .mid over to Sonar for tracking and audio mixing. 
 
Elements doesn't have the professional version of notation and score editing, but the other MIDI enhancements seem to be there.  The Pro version also offers the full recording and mixing environment, but Sonar does that well too, and I already know it
 
Elements 9 is already out, but they are not releasing a demo until their first maintenance release.
$99
https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/cubase/cubase_elements.html

abacab

Kamikaze
The chord track another feature that was popular. I've long requested a midi chord device, but I've never used Cubase, so I don't know the chord track, and if that would serve the purpose, but I think it's along the same lines. Both ideas received a lot of votes.
 
There has been a lot of fixes. a lot of integration advancements, such as ARA (which is amazing), but the focus for me feels like it towards mixing. Many are in favour of this, but in the compositional side, there has been improvement to audio, not to MIDI. I personally think the balance is off. It's not like MIDI is dying, the soft synths and samplers are more capable than ever, and what they can produce is still advancing. 
 
Admittedly ripple editing would fall into both MIDI and Audio functionality.
 

I'm going to check out the demo of Cubase Elements 9 when it is released in a few weeks.  I downloaded the user guide, and after looking over the MIDI section on the MIDI chord track, the chord features, plus the arranger track, it might be useful for composition work.  Then just export the .mid over to Sonar for tracking and audio mixing. 
 
Elements doesn't have the professional version of notation and score editing, but the other MIDI enhancements seem to be there.  The Pro version also offers the full recording and mixing environment, but Sonar does that well too, and I already know it
 
Elements 9 is already out, but they are not releasing a demo until their first maintenance release.
$99
https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/cubase/cubase_elements.html

Chord Track in Elements is different than the one in Artist/Pro. You might want to try Artist since it's much more capable. I run Pro in the studio and Elements on my laptop.

There could be upcoming extensions to the MIDI spec, so companies are waiting on them before doing extensive updates. Just sayin.'