Feature request: remove events within selection

First, I want to say how much I've been enjoying Pianoteq, especially with the improvements to realism and presence introduced in v8 and v9. The binaural presets and virtual binaural mic are brilliant, and I hope to see continued refinement here over future releases. This really sets the software apart for me - plenty of piano VSTs sound like polished studio recordings, but few offer the level of spatial immersion that's now possible with Pianoteq.

Then there's the other thing that keeps me coming back (usually to the standalone MacOS version): the app's dual purpose as an automatic archiver. Having it always running and quietly capturing my sessions has supercharged my songwriting workflow. Love it.

Which brings me to my request. The existing MIDI editing tools are great, but there's a conspicuous gap. We can select a range, delete before or after the playhead, and remove events outside of a selection. But we still can't remove events inside a selection. The functionality is essentially already there; it's just missing this one complementary operation.

When I'm working through especially adventurous song ideas, I rarely get it right the first time. I'll play until I hit a wall, then back up a few bars and try again, sometimes dozens of times before I find the best path forward. By the time I've worked through a full passage (or whatever it turned into), my performance is absolutely littered with false starts and repeated attempts. My goal is always to re-learn a passage once I've found it, capture a clean take, then save that as a properly named midi (then wav, assuming I still like the thing). But re-learning complicated material is far more time consuming than it needs to be when I have to constantly scrub through all my missteps just to locate the moments where I actually moved forward a couple bars.

I know the obvious response is "just use a real MIDI editor," or even "just record in your DAW." But the beauty of a pure Pianoteq workflow is that it's frictionless and it just works; the moment I have to round-trip through another app, that falls apart. And unlike every DAW I've ever tried, the app runs flawlessly on my system. No glitches, no friction, no headaches. A simple "remove events inside of selection" option, mirroring the existing "outside" function, would make it so much faster to turn exploratory recordings into usable rough cuts. And rough cuts are truly all I'm after here; I don't care if the sustain state gets briefly interrupted, and I'm not asking for a note editor. If I want that level of precision, I can fire up Cubase. With any luck, I'll have it open within ten minutes and won't be cursing the Steinberg Gremlin again.

For those of us using Pianoteq to catalogue song seeds, this would be a genuine workflow improvement. It wouldn't add clutter, just one more item in an otherwise hidden context menu.

Thanks for your consideration.