Why does the Piano Roll switch to audio region when I click next to a midi note??

Figured it out, the view pop-up in the piano roll has an option Selected Regions!

Posting this in case someone else has this problem.

Thank you to me for figuring this out!  

Thanks, but it does not look like you clicked in the MIDI region in the piano roll. This is what triggered it to switch to the audio region. I tried the setting you suggested, but they did not change a thing.

I made another GIF here showing it and the settings. What is strange is that some MIDI regions do not exhibit this behavior, and others do. You can see I select the Studio Violas, and the Bass, they do switch, I select the muted Studio Cellos and the Bass MIDI region, then it does not switch.

Thanks again!

As I said, and as I have shown in the video doesn't matter what track is selected some MIDI regions when open in the piano roll have respond as expected not random switching to another track when you click inside the piano roll, others do. why would this be inconsistent if it is designed to work as you explain? And if it is designed to work as you explained, it makes absolutely no sense that someone would open a midi region. Click in it to select a group of notes and have it immediately switched to another track region.

if I open a mid region, I should not be required to first select the track that MIDI region is on, that is an added step complicating a simple process of selecting a note or a group of notes.

and again, why does this happen only with certain many regions on certain tracks?

Thanks for trying to help,

I have given feedback to Apple before posting here, and I do both things when I find something like this. I believe in helping improve software and reporting bugs whenever I can.

In your original GIF, you did not click in the MIDI region in the Piano Roll, so I didn't think you understood the issue. Not sure if you do now.

So, if you click in the Piano Roll in a MIDI region, does the Piano Roll sometimes switch to another track? This is not consistent; some MIDI regions display this behavior, and others do not as demonstrated in my second GIF, so you probably need to have a large session with multiple MIDI tracks. By the way, in your latest GIF, with only 1 MIDI track and one audio track, it is working as I would expect, but this is not the case in my session.

Just for clarification and in case someone at Apple is reading this, when I have a track selected, doesn't matter which one, then select a MIDI region from another track, that MIDI region opens in the Piano Roll, and I can click in the piano roll and edit MIDI notes as one would expect. But as demonstrated in my GIF, in other MIDI regions on other tracks that are not selected, this does not work, clicking in the MIDI region next to a MIDI note, it switches to the audio region of the selected track, not what one would expect, and is deeply disruptive to a workflow.

If you do understand the issue, and you still say there is a reason for this I would love to understand under what situation anyone would ever want to open a MIDI region in the Piano Roll, (whether clicking it or typing [E]) and have it switch to another region (even if that track is selected) as soon as one clicks inside the region they just opened in the Piano Roll. If I am opening a MIDI region, I intend to work on it, and it should never switch to another region.

Best, Mark

Thanks, but why should I be required to select the track before opening a MIDI region? Why would the MIDI region open if I can not work in it? I am switching from MIDI region to MIDI region on different tracks hundreds of times in an hour. Why is there an extra step of needing to select the track first? What if I want to keep a track selected so I can play an instrument while I work?

I don't get how this is acceptable behavior to anyone and not a glaring bug.