PRV Window, Controller Pane
Preface: I'm sure this will be moved, but it shouldn't be. It is a big big big problem.
Background: it seems that I am one of the heaviest users of the PRV for multiple tracks and multiple controllers.
History: the PRV controller pane shows a line for each controller for each midi event channel for each track. Every midi track I use has a volume, pan, modwheel, and expression controller, plus notes that have velocity, plus pitch bend.
See attached photo #1, for the view of four related tracks, each carefully managed so that all midi events in the first track are assigned to midi channel 1, all midi events in the second track to midi channel 2, all in the third track to midi channel 3, and all in the fourth track to midi channel 4. I'm working on a lengthy post to help others with how to do this and why ..
Obviously, the controller pane is absolutely and completely worthless like this (the image is from a large monitor, one of three large monitors I use with sonar).
In order to be able to use the controller pane, I drag it up so that it fills the entire monitor. PROBLEM 1: ALL CONTROLLER LANES ARE THE SAME SIZE AND THAT CAN'T BE CHANGED! See image 2, next.
You'll see that the individual controller lanes are still too small to be 'drawn' into, and, of course, the note area, the essential piece of PRV, is squashed to almost nothing. If you were to look very closely, you'd see: at the top, there is a velocity strip for the selected track (#4 shown); for the first of four tracks, there's a CC1 strip, a CC7 strip, a CC10 strip, and a CC11 strip. As I prefaced, they are in this neat order only because I made a point of setting the midi event channel numbers to correspond to the order of tracks in the window. So track one uses only midi event channel 1. For the second of the tracks, all events set to midi channel 2, we see four more strips - CC1, CC7, CC10, and CC11. For the third track, likewise, and for the fourth. The controllers for the selected track (#4) are highlighted. It's all organized, easy to understand: BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO USE!!
If I select a different track, see the next screenshot:
Here's bug 2: there ARE CC11 controller messages in the second track, as well as CC1, CC7, and CC10. Why are they not shown? No idea.
Here's bug 3: you look at the controller pane, left side, and you see all those selectors, one per strip? THEY DON'T WORK. Any one of them gives the same thing: you can only select a controller PRESENT IN THE SELECTED TRACK. (or a "new value type"). But the point is EVERY SINGLE STRIP is the same thing, except for the active and selected controller, and mysteriously except for CC11 of track 2.
Please don't move ... took me a long time to get all this prepared.