One mouse click for sustain pedal down AND up????

I don't use the PRV much, except for drums.
How do you insert a pedal event in PRV?
In Staff view, you can drag the pedal up event wherever you want, as determined by your Snap settings.

I tend at the piano to keep the pedal ON (IE DEPRESSED) until the next note or Chord: then I do a quick UP(OFF)and DOWN(ON) again.  This has the effect of keeping the pedal down most of the time, without producing a cacophony of overlapping sounds.
 
TO do that all you'd need is a mouse click that produces a tight ON-OFF OR OFF-ON sequence, microseconds separating the ON from the OFF.
 
This would be VERY useful.
 
Just making the note longer doesn't make use of the "sustain" sample that is part of the latest piano samples.  The sustain sample (activated when you depress the sustain pedal only) is actually very useful, because it provides a good amount of authentic room or hall sound.
 
Wonder whether there might be a way of tricking Sonar into doing this... or maybe some kind of aftermarket keystroke macro program....

MY SOLUTION.  
1. In CC64 Lane do 1 tight OFF/ON sustain sequence
2. Highlight and Copy that sequence.
3. Assign a dedicated PASTE key using KEY BINDINGS
Now... I'm going to experiment with this....See if it works.

This is an excellent suggestion.  I have been struggling with pedal up and down for a long time while trying to program it as well.
May be this has implication that the coders don't do much music like we do.
dan
 
 

seed
i kind of remember being able to just click and drag these markers along the timeline in the staff view
 
if i remember i'll try when i get home tonight

Yes... it does this in Staff View, but it's pretty cumbersome and mostly useless.  In staff view, one mouse click gives you sustain ON and, at an ARBITRARILY pre-defined distance, sustain OFF.      
 
That's just not how pedaling at the piano works in real time!!!
 
 If you study how you're pedaling works in real time, you'll see that the pedal is, in fact, DOWN (sustain on) most of the time (very, very often), and OFF just for a moment between dissonant chords or note progressions.   Hence pedal "OFF" then, almost immediately "ON"---- done with ONE mouse click in piano roll view---- is the way to go.   That's the opposite of what currently happens!
 
In other words:  Sonar/Cake needs to refine its pedaling option... and it would be VERY easy to do:
 
In a nutshell.....
1. User defined distance between sustain ON and OFF.  
2. User defined order---sustain ON OFF or sustain OFF ON.  
3. Doable in PIANO roll view,  not just in staff view, with ONE mouse click !!!

you can right click the on/off markers in the staff view and change their position in the timeline by manually entering a number
 
it's a pain but it works :)