“Dear Steinberg team, it would be wonderful if VST Live included the complete Cubase sequencer. Thank you.”
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Or… if Cubase (or other DAW) could be used as an external Midi editor.
Or… if we could just drag and drop VL Midi clips to desktop and other apps. The reverse function already works very well, we can drag and drop a Midifile from Cubase to a VST Live Midi track. So bad it only works one way!
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.. sorry, we can not do that.
/Michael.
What do you mean with that? Or other DAW?
You know that VST Live already has an MIDI-Export function?
But I see : Drag MIDI Clips to another DAW is missing. Let’s see what we can do.
/Michael.
Hello Michael!
The idea was to open another program as a Midi editor when you double click a Midi Clip. This program could be defined in VL Parameters. The team would then be freed from enhancing the internal Midi editor.
This would work in a similar way as “External audio editor” in Cubase. Is it something you can consider?
If course, I’m aware of the Midi Export function, but I need to edit individual Clips.
Are ghost copies already on your list?
Thank you and have nice holidays!
… but which DAW actually supports such a feature? That would be a lot of work.
You mean the “Edit in WaveLab” function in Cubase? That’s a WaveLab-specific feature, and the WaveLab team invested a lot of work to make this possible.
I remember there was something like that in Cubase… but that was many moons ago.
I hoped that. Phew 
Yes, we will add drag-and-drop to Cubase (and other DAWs) . Give us a bit of time.
But let’s return to the MIDI editor in VST Live . We know many features are missing. Which ones are the most important for you? Please step by step . If you list 20 missing features , the task becomes too big
They are now on the list.
Thank you very much. Have some nice days, too!
Michael.
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Ideas are nice, but no program supports this. Drag and drop may work here and there (as Micha said, we are checking this), then drag/drop back again; for simple corrections (which was the initial intention to create a built-in MIDI Editor) it’s easier to use the internal editing features.
Do you remember the file format of Cubase VST, that let you save and import midi parts? Maybe this could be used?
Dear @musicullum please forgive my naivety. For years, I’ve been reading “external audio editor” somewhere in Cubase, and since I never tried it, I thought it was a function to seamlessly edit assets in another program, without exiting Cubase.
That’s audio. We were talking about MIDI.
Editing audio means editing an audio file which can be shared. With MIDI, things are much more complex as tempo and time signature come into play. Also, Cubase would have to have opened a project with matching project settings. We can streamline what can be done with drag and drop, we are working on that.
Drag and drop will be perfect!
@Spork , what I miss the most is filtered messages edition as we can find in Cubase Logical Editor, in a simplified version.
For example, I often have to modify the kick note in a drum Track playing a GM drum kit, changing all C1 to B0. Doing it manually for every clip is a real pain.
I’d like to be able compress all F#1 velocities, and many other various transformations.
what if creating separated MIDI track for it and transpose… even quicker, no?
One track per note? No.
I hope Drum mapping is on the list…
Please use Cubase and im/export. We work on drag/drop, but there are no plans to extend MIDI editor functions like you suggest as of now. We often explained that MIDI editing is an optional add-on for simple fixing wrong notes etc, which is usually not part of applications of this tpe.
@Spork was asking, I just answered 
Each time I import in VL a song exported from Cubase, it takes a while to link each track to a VSTi. If you consider a situation where a drum track uses B0 for kick drum and you need to replace them all with a C1 because the drum set has a better sound with this new note, what are your options :
- Spend lots of time on VL Editors manually changing every B0 into C1.
- Do the operation very efficiently in Cubase using Logical Editors to transpose only all B0, and then lose time again recreating all the layers, and then set up again assigning each track to the right Midi Out on the right channel.
This is just an example. When bidirectional Drag & Drop (or a .mid Clip Save function) will be there, It will become easy to edit a Midi Clip in Cubase without the need to reimport and reassign the whole song.
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Why not just simply MIDI Transform Note C1 to Note B0 ?