Thanks for the quick response.
Re #1 - I did read that section of the manual and tried to use the message length by typing in the message length and then proceeding to enter a message that corresponded to the entered message length. If you do it this way (which is logical I think), and you type a 00 as the last byte of the message and tab, the message length field will revert to 1 less that what you initially set it to (??) I took from this behaviour that setting the message length was not working. I see now, that, if you set the message length AFTER typing your midi message ending in 00, then the message length retains its value properly. Setting message length before typing the message should work in my view but no matter - I see how it works now.
Re #2 - Fyi - I am working on a second Dell monitor connected to my Macbook pro. Maybe that has something to do with the crashes when hovering over the preset change arrows in the MFC-101 preset section. I dunno but the program definitely has catastrophic failures intermittently in my environment (I've learned to save frequently).
Re: Cut/Paste: I've tried to enter full midi message values in an external editor and copy/paste them as per your suggestion but the full clipboard value seems to want to paste into the first byte of the midi message and I can't seem to highlight more than one byte of the message at a time to paste into. I guess there is a trick I am missing, but I'm not keen on spending much time on this aspect since requiring the user to go out to an external editor to do a simple copy/paste is pretty lame to start with. Yes - I have hovered over the copy/paste button but I don't see any way to copy paste from/to midi message only. There really needs to be the ability to copy from one or more bytes of the midi message only and paste that into the midi message of another preset. Sounds like you are working on that. Great!
Also Re: Cut/Paste: This also needs to apply to the "Program Change" strip of values in the preset section. As you may know the MFC-101 defaults to sending program messages on all channels in all presets which is probably not what a lot of users want. To change this one has to go to each preset and change the "Program Change" values to "off" for all channels except channel 01. This is a major chore on the MFC, and, has to be done whenever MFC might be reset to factory which I do once in a while. MFC-Edit is not much easier as I found out last night when I wanted to set all program change values to "off" on all channels except 01 in the first 50 presets. Maybe I am missing some info on this one also but I tried copy/paste from external editor and copy/paste directly in the "Program Change" values but neither appeared to work. I ended up having to click each "Program Change" value, move the slider to the bottom, and click "off" on each channel value of each preset for 50 presets. That's 3x15x50 or 2250 mouse moves to do that job! So maybe I've missed something here but if I did; I don't think whatever trick I missed is very evident. If this is how it's done then I guess I'm one of the few working in the preset section of this software otherwise there would have been lots of comments long before now.
I don't mean to be down on the software. You've done great work and I would recommend MFC-Edit to others. You also seem very dedicated to the support of it which is great. I just think the workflow of the software relating to repeating tasks (copy / paste is key) can be improved.
Thanks