This seems to come up for me often. I want to copy (or cut) some notes of a MIDI track in PRV and paste to another existing MIDI track, in order to try it with a different sound. But it will only paste it to the original track. Why can't I do this? It seems this shouldn't be too difficult to incorporate this into Sonar. Am I missing something???

You can do it with the Track View inline PRV (i.e., Edit filter set to notes) but I don't think you can do it in the Multidock PRV. It's intended more for editing an individual track. I have no idea how easy/difficult it would be to change this behavior.

 
Have you selected the destination track (track name has pale blue background) before pasting ?
Works for me.
 
 

Well son of a gun...I stand corrected. Paul, you're right...file under "I learn something new every day."

Anderton
Well son of a gun...I stand corrected. Paul, you're right...file under "I learn something new every day."

I'm just discovering this at this very moment.  I never have the PRV docked, instead in a floating window, but just tried in the multidock  and encountered the same problem.  I'd expect switching prv tabs in the multidock to automatically select the related track.  Why would you also have to select the track, especially since it's more than likely hidden by an expanded multidock ?

Paul P

Anderton
Well son of a gun...I stand corrected. Paul, you're right...file under "I learn something new every day."

I'm just discovering this at this very moment.  I never have the PRV docked, instead in a floating window, but just tried in the multidock  and encountered the same problem.

Wait...this is getting weird. I just tested it with the PRV docked, and it worked fine. I picked a track, clicked on the track number in the upper right (which is how I interpreted what you said), it turned light blue, I pasted...done.
 
Perhaps this needs to be the next tip of the week, done in glorious detail and with Technicolortm screen shots.

Anderton
I picked a track, clicked on the track number in the upper right (which is how I interpreted what you said), it turned light blue, I pasted...done.

 
I don't use the track pane in prv either .  I usually open a window per track, so I was referring to selecting the track in Track View.  I now see that selecting the track in the prv is the same thing.
 

Perhaps this needs to be the next tip of the week, done in glorious detail and with Technicolortm screen shots.

 
Please do.  I'm sure a lot of us have our particular ways of doing things just because that's how we stumbled across them, not because they're necessarily the best.  A study of the various options would be nice.

That's a new trick. I use Paste Special, where you can designate the destination track.
Recently, I've switched to the track view and I simply SHIFT+CTRL+DRAG the section I want copied. I now find that faster.

Paul P
I'm sure a lot of us have our particular ways of doing things just because that's how we stumbled across them, not because they're necessarily the best.  A study of the various options would be nice.

Don't assume I'm necessarily using the best...it was just a few minutes ago I figured out how to paste in the docked PRV.  And even that might have been by accident due to not understanding what you said correctly. Or maybe I did.

   What I was referring to was: I select some notes in the PRV, cut or copy, switch to a different track from the PRV track menu, then paste. It pastes to the original track. 
   Often I want to select a harmony & just move the harmony to a different track, and do it all in the PRV to make it nice and simple.