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...but this has always been a function I have searched fruitlessly for in Midi sequencers and DAWs ever since the demise of my AtariST running Cubase 3, which at least attempted a 'Human Sync' function.

If I understand correctly, Rui has it sussed programatically with

"when you select a clip range that you believe is your recorded beat length (a quarter note if in 4/4), tempo may then be adjusted from that beat length."

and Simon has it nailed from a live performer perspective with

"I would prefer to make the selection with a horizontal extent in the range 4 to 10 bars in length, and then manually enter the number of bars to which the tempo has to adjust".

Combine the two and the high standard of ergonomics of Qtractor would be maintained.

Back to reality, probably the actual coding (auto-quantising the selected range of pre-specified number of bars to calculate new bpm?) could be a nightmare, especially if we're diddling around with 16th triplets ;-). I guess the input would have to be simple and clear cut for this to work, but oh, what a release it would be for building upon impromptu inspiration! At present, with all DAWs I've tried, the programs insists you switch from right to left brain activity to such an extent that inspiration often gets swamped in technicality.