Changing velocities in PRV = what's the trick?????

 
I can not draw in the velocity data in the controller pane. How do I change the velocities????!!!!!!  also, cannot get multiple take lanes in the PRV controller pan as in the video.  PLEASE HELP!
 
just watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5z9BKWD-I
go to 25:50 approx for the PRV demo stuff

Ok based on your problem.
 
If you want to select all the kick hits use the keyboard on the left to select the note and all the kicks will be selected.
 
Next click on the mouse wheel and the HUD will pop up. Right click on the wrench and select edit.
 
Then move the mouse over the middle of one of the selected notes until you see the mouse curser change to what looks like ili and click on the note, drag up to increase the vel and down to reduce.
 
have fun 

Are you using X2?

If so, in the PRV... as Tom said, click the keyboard key that represents the kick to select all kick notes.

Then, using the Smart tool, you can do as Tom said and hover your mouse over the top of one of the selected notes until you see the Draw tool with lines show at the eraser end of it. Then click and drag up/down to raise/lower velocities of all selected notes.

OR you can use the Controller pane and hold down Alt while clicking and dragging the mouse over the selected note velocities to draw in new values. The first method is easier though.


You can also use the Event Inspector to do all kinds of parameter changes on MIDI notes. Check out this free video...
* Cakewalk SONAR: Event Inspector Editing - http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/video.asp?ID=7

Scott

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if i want to select only some of the kick notes and adjust all together, how do I do that?  once I zoom out, my curser seems to turn into a magnifying glass, how do I turn that off?  I don't want to change all of the kick velocities on t he entire song at the same time, i used a few midi patterns, and need to adjust each one (pattern) to get all of the velocities consistent, so I need to change, for example 12 measures at a time, not the entire song.  In my previous version of sonar, i was able to zoom out, select all of the midi notes i wanted to change by "drawing a frame/box" around them and them and then change the velocity.  What I seem to get now are all of the bells and whistles which I am having trouble figuring out how to work with them.  I can no longer select by "drawing a box" when I am zoomed out. very hard time getting the velocity change to appear while hovering over the midi note, once I get it and click to change it, it creates a new midi note.  it seems to be very tempermental! I did find a feature that would show only the velicoties for the midi notes selected, however doesn't really suite any purpose, would think if you selected midi notes and only saw those velocities for the selected notes, you should be able to edit those and only those notes, NOPE! not how it works, once you draw or click into the controller pane, it will edit all midi note velocities.  I gotta say, I really feel like this version was actually a step backwards when it came to midi editing. I could be wrong, but I could use an in depth tutorial video on PRV. I did watch a demo mentioned previously, but that does not toouch on any of my specific needs.

am using X2

You're probably running into the same thing I did. In x2 the icon stays as a pencil all the time and this is confusing. 

Make sure to select only the notes you want to modify (right click drag or click on the note in the piano roll to select all of that specifc drum) and then make sure to ALT click drag on the velocity pane. If you click drag, you will change ALL notes and be very frustrated :)

ALT + click is the trick, with the smart tool. 

I'm sure you're already using it, but the Notes -> "Show velocity on selected notes only" is a god send.

Cheers,

Josh

garrigus & josh:  Well I spent the whol day working on drum tracks in the PRV. Your posts really helped thanks!!  I learned alot today. I imported some midi patterns and then edited them as need and really have been trying to make them sound like a human drummer, so it took some time. Found on pattern with several 16th note fills on the snare and toms, when I zoomed all the way in, there was only 1 "tick" (midi note), where I was expecting 4. Any suggestions on this. And also, in Sonar 5 I was abble to "paint" in parts, for example, I could pick the note length value and then just draw/pain them in.  Is that feature still there?  Probly is, and I just didn't stumble accross it. Again thanks for your help!!!

what I mean by "tick" is shows only 1 midi note, however when that note triggers it actually is playing back as 4 16th notes, like a roll.  I have zoomed in thinking there were several notes squashed together or on top of one another in the display, but nope, it shows as one note. As I was zoomed in I also was looking for multiple velocities and there was only 1 velocity there. So I thought maybe there was a trick to that. I imported the groove from either groove monkey or whatever came with session drummer.

As far as note length values, i guess I meant, I could pick "1/4" and paint(drag the mouse over while holding the click) in notes and it would autofill/snap each note to the quarter notes (on the beat) of the measures, or if I picked 1/8, it would put them on each 1/2 beat. I'm sure this is confusing, cuz it is hard to explain.