stickman393
Life's too short for this

Agreed, in the category of let's drop mouse support...
 

MacFurse
When I first started with Cakewalk, years ago.....I mainly used it for midi, creating backing tracks. It was relatively easy and trouble free, but midi editing was still young, and not very good,

I guess if you are a guitarist, wind or string musician, you 'may' see midi as just a tool for creating a backing track. If your are keyboard player, then midi really is the gateway into a composition world. Midi for me has never been abut being a backing track. Midi editing hasn't really changed that much fr most users (That includes me, but nt say Sharke) in 25 years and was good back then too. Sure we have extra tools but we are generally achieving the same thing. The fact that it was set up so well in the 80's and 4 decades later it's essentially the same, kind of says that it's here for the foreseeable future, it does what we need and will need.
 
Adding midi capabilities is what BandLab users will be wanting really.

Midi is vital in my musical world.  I create all my tracks with my midi keyboard with the only exceptions being the drum and sax tracks.  I'm constantly humming when I'm working and sometimes I'll come upon an idea I really like and thanks to midi it will become a tune.  I realize this is nothing earth shattering and that a lot of people create music this way.  I just feel that using loops like with BandLab is cheating.  You're not really creating and developing  "your" original idea but rather arranging the ideas of other people.  So, without midi, I'd be dead in the water because I can't play drums or guitar, nor can I afford to pay someone for their services at this time.

TheSteven

stickman393
Life's too short for this

Agreed, in the category of let's drop mouse support...
 

LOL 

With the amount of composition that i personally complete strictly in the midi world, it would be senseless to eliminate it

I think the OP was employing reverse psychology here: advocate for dropping midi, which would generate a huge backlash; thus midi will not be dropped. Hmm, maybe I should advocate for dropping staff view...

michael diemer
I think the OP was employing reverse psychology here

commonly called trolling

I hope they keep it. I need it with my virtual samplers and any keys I want to record!

The MIDI people have spoken!

Phoen1xPJ
The MIDI people have spoken!

SUCH SWEET WORDS !!!