Hybridizing Staff View and Piano Roll tools?

Hi arcadesonfire . . . you're preachin' to the choir here ! . . . your suggestion of a hybrid staff/PRV is a great idea.
I also spend a majority of my editing time in staff view, but I have found as you have, that many things are better accomplished in PRV view. So, I'm constantly going between the two views to do my editing. For now, these are the tools we're given, and I haven't heard any rumblings around the forum about staff view updates for quite a while.
 
All I can offer is my shortcuts (which you may or may not already know about) to make switching back and forth between the staff and PRV views, and midi editing more efficient:
 
1) use staff and PRV in the Multidock
2) to switch between views quickly . . . keyboard command . . . hold down Shift + Ctrl, and use left/right arrow keys to toggle between the views of the Multidock
3) to use multiple staff view tabs in the Multidock . . . right click on tab, select "lock contents" . . . then you can create other staff view tabs without disturbing the other ones.
4) select a note (or notes) in staff view . . . a lot of the edits can be done using "Event Inspector" in the Control Bar
5) keyboard shortcuts (square brackets) "["   and   "]"  to quickly transpose note(s) up and down an octave at a time
 
 

im not a staff view user at all. but I sure hope cakewalk does a couple updates to staff view to satisfy the long time staff view users. the SV users would be dancing in the streets.
I could be wrong but it almost seems as though they are fazing it out and putting more efforts towards the PRV.
 
Been using cakewalk since Pro audio 9. I would like to score some of my music but I think I would go with an external score editor to that. I do like your idea though. I would be interested in trying it.
I just don't see them putting to much focus to this area, but like I said, I could be wrong.
 

I hope someone from the Cakewalk is reading this. I am also suffering the lack of possibilities in Staff View. To jump from SV to PRV during editing is quite annoying. I am Cakewalk user since DOS Version and tis area is always the weakness of the DAW. I am not expecting from Cakewalk to score my music, for this I am using Sibelius or Finale, however Cakewalk should consider an improvement for editing music in the Staff View.   

wienryk
To jump from SV to PRV during editing is quite annoying.

FWIW, I usually float the Staff View above the docked PRV; I do 90% of the editing in the PRV, and just use the SV to confirm the displayed result is as-expected.
 
But my SV needs are admittedly limited. If you want to compose in the SV, that continues to be a challenge.
 
Dave

Then floggings will indeed, continue.

Zargg71
Hi. How about undocking SV / PRV, make half screen size. Open MD with SV / PRV, and adjust to fit the other. Save as screenset. Then you could switch with a keystroke. Would that work? Hope it helps.
All the best.

That's what I've done for a couple years, but it is a pain in the behind; it's really unnatural to a music reader. Nevertheless, thanks for offering the idea!