Originally Posted by debitspread
Wow -- so interesting. 'Ya learn something everyday. Or I did anyway. I now see that the Piano Roll works fine as long I'm editing MIDI material. I don't know why that wasn't obvious to me from the very beginning... but, alas, it wasn't. Many thanks to all of you for your comments and guidance. I'm really looking forward to using my newly-found MIDI editing tool.
It isn't really obvious and you're very far from the first person to not realise it.

As DC Ron says, Melodyne can be used to tweak things after generation. "Playable Real Tracks" can be used for segments within the RealTrack, but that's really intended for small treaks ... it actually switches for those tweaks from the RT audio to sforzando and samples from the RT file, then back to RT audio. If you want to control the whole track, though, MIDI and VSTi is probably the best way to go.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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