PRV - Editing CC's with Smart Tool doesn't work as indicated

Apologies if this has been covered already...
 
   I find that when I'm editing controllers in the piano roll, using the smart tool, that I'm not able to draw single data points for a CC. I can draw lines, but if I try to draw a single data point using freehand mode above or below existing data, nothing happens. I would believe this is on purpose except that it's giving me a pencil icon, yet won't write data. It seems like either a minor UI bug (I shouldn't get a pencil) or a functionality bug (it should draw when I click!).
 
To Repro:
1. Using the draw tool, put in a couple of CC values - being sure that those values are far apart (so you're getting a big long line between them)
2. Put your smart tool either above or below that line, and you'll get a pencil icon, but you can't actually draw.
 
I should note that switching to the regular draw tool works as expected - I can draw as many little neurotic CC controller points as I like. On a side note though, it does seem the 'dead zone' around the existing data is a tad wide. I have to zoom in quite a bit to be able to specify to within 2 or 3.
 
Thanks for considering!
Mike
Sonar Plat Cambridge
Win 7x64

Another factor: clicking in the time line, or doing one of a number of other things, can result in unintentionally Selecting one or more notes.  And then, you can't draw in the controller lane for notes other than the selected notes.    I am constantly battling this.   My workaround, since with the "smart (stupid) tool" you can not make a note with a single click: click somewhere NOT on a note in the PRV, that unselects everything.   Then you can draw in the controller pane as you might expect, creating a curve for whatever controller you are using. 

brundlefly
It's not having notes selected that prevents you from editing controllers on another track, it's that selecting a note moves focus to that track, and obviously you can only draw controllers on the active/focused track. Deselecting the notes won't move focus to a different track that you want to edit. You would still need to select that track in the tracks pane or select a note in the PRV that belongs to that track. Controller lanes are differentiated by type and channel only, they don't belong to a specific track.

You know, that might be one of the most straightforward, succinct descriptions I've seen for how CC lanes are set up in a multi-track PRV.   Particularly that last line.

Nicely said (three posts back), brundefly, but wrong.  Or, rather, not relevant.    Re-read my post to which you gave a misdirection.   The rest of what you said was ok, but specifically: if you have only ONE track involved, you still will lock up the controller pane by having one note selected.   That is, you cannot draw to adjust note velocity: the controller pane, the Note Velocity line, cannot be adjusted by drawing on unselected notes.   
 
This might be desirable in some cases, but as I said, getting notes selected accidentally by clicking in a slightly wrong point happens constantly. 
 
I fervently want CW to fix the controller pane.     Maybe I'll make a video of me fiddling with the controllers, starting with a hash of 90 thin lines and having to delete them one by one in order to be able to get to the one I want.    While the screen jumps with each change, so the mouse needs to be repositioned each time.      

And one more thing: this was posted by the OP as a problem report, which it is.    But yet again someone locked and moved.     Why why why do you need to do that?    I'm sure who-ever is responsible for reviewing the problem reports is capable of skipping those that do not seem of current interest, while everyone who has the same problem as the OP has to follow a link, leaving where they had been in forum-reading. 
 

williamcopper
Nicely said (three posts back), brundefly, but wrong.  Or, rather, not relevant.    Re-read my post to which you gave a misdirection.   The rest of what you said was ok, but specifically: if you have only ONE track involved, you still will lock up the controller pane by having one note selected.   That is, you cannot draw to adjust note velocity: the controller pane, the Note Velocity line, cannot be adjusted by drawing on unselected notes.  

Missed this post until now. Since you mention irrelevance and misdirection, I feel compelled to point out that this thread is not about velocity. It's about controllers. Velocity, while editable in the controller pane, is not a controller. And the word "velocity" did not appear in the post to which I responded or any previous post or in the thread title. What I posted is accurate with respect to controllers.

Thanks. No sweat. The devil's in the details.