# Transparent MIDI notes in the MIDI editor view

**URL:** <https://forum.zrythm.org/t/transparent-midi-notes-in-the-midi-editor-view/467>\
**Category:** GNU/Linux\
**Created:** [November 17, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/transparent-midi-notes-in-the-midi-editor-view/467 "2025-11-17T10:01:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![apoorv569](https://forum.zrythm.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@apoorv569](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/apoorv569)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/transparent-midi-notes-in-the-midi-editor-view/467/1 "2025-11-17T10:01:28Z")

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I compiled and installed Zrythm v1 branch my self on Arch Linux. For some reason when I draw some notes in the MIDI editor view thing, they all appear transparent or something.

 ![2025-11-15_14-09](https://forum.zrythm.org/uploads/default/original/1X/16de1df8ad989154d5fd895df8d942248425957e.png)

You can see here the notes are barely visible. Also the clip in the timeline have no gap showing in between notes for some reason.

After cloning the repo I ran these commands to build Zrythm,

`cmake -B builddir -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/lib/qt6 -DZRYTHM_CHECK_UPDATES=OFF`

`cmake --build builddir --config Release`