Any tips for editing velocity and sustain in PRV?

I'm finding it really tricky to edit my piano recordings in midi.

I can do something like 20-30 takes to get it perfect, or as close to perfect as possible, but making tiny touches and getting the velocity, off notes and smooth broken chords through editing seems impossible.

The thing is my playing accuracy is terrible, and making countless takes is still easier than midi editing, I feel like I'm doing it wrong.

Also how to I mimick my pianos sustain pedal if inserting new notes? I tend to hit sustained chords with melodies or bouncy ragtime chords and I cant figure out how to add sustain manually to notes I insert or move.

That's how it seems, I've had plenty of practice but my accuracy has always been terrible and never improves.

     In the prv view, you can show controller lanes underneath the notes. One of these controllers ( CC 6 I think) shows when the sustain is depressed or released. Using the DRAW tool (from the hud ), you can add sustain pedal up or down at the appropriate time. Small triangles appear as you do so. To open the controller lane, press on the little plus sign at the left of the lanes eg in the volume controller lane.
    As regards timing, if you can get close enough , have you ever tried quantizing ? This will move selected notes to the nearest point on a  grid to a resolution of your specification . Sometimes this has worked for me , but it can make things worse if you're way out. I usually have to play something several times before going to work with quantize and editing in the prv.
   And another thing I do is set the project to a slightly slower tempo whist I record to give myself a better chance to be accurate, before reverting to the correct tempo. 
 
 

    When I quantize, I don't select individual notes. I select a group, or all of them ( by pressing Ctrl and A ). So in your example, I would select all the notes in the 2-4 bars, hit quantize, and listen to the results. You can press undo if the result is unsatisfactory.  Usually I will find most of the notes go to the right time, and those that don't I move manually. You could try a very fine resolution so the notes don't move much at all  e.g 1/32, or experiment with coarser resolutions until improvements ( hopefully ! )  arrive. But I have to say if the original timing is too far out results will be unsatisfactory.

Stephen@thesummerhouse
    When I quantize, I don't select individual notes. I select a group, or all of them ( by pressing Ctrl and A ). So in your example, I would select all the notes in the 2-4 bars, hit quantize, and listen to the results. You can press undo if the result is unsatisfactory.  Usually I will find most of the notes go to the right time, and those that don't I move manually. You could try a very fine resolution so the notes don't move much at all  e.g 1/32, or experiment with coarser resolutions until improvements ( hopefully ! )  arrive. But I have to say if the original timing is too far out results will be unsatisfactory.

I only needed to edit one note that was slightly off time in that case. When I tried quantizing everything, it got ruined too much as I use a lot of split chords and off time notes.

You need to use CC64 for sustain.