Velocity hell

In PRV I spend a lot of time messing with velocities. It's so difficult. Has anyone figured out a good way to make velocities easier to edit? Sure, all the functionality is there, but nothing about it is easy. For example, in a piano piece, how can I edit velocities in the melody line in a track and not also edit the left hand part (in the same track)? I can opt to only show velocities on selected notes, but then I can only edit velocities on the entire selection together. The only way to edit individual velocities is to NOT have notes selected, in which case I can't see the melody from the rest of the parts. Also, once the selected velocities are shown, I can't see the un-selected ones at all, so I can't see them in context. Who designed this POS feature? Did anyone test usability on this? SO AGGRAVATING.
 
Sorry for ranting. Anyway, how can I do this more effectively?

To edit individual notes, I prefer editing the velocity tails rather than using the velocity strip.
For editing multiple velocities simultaneously, I use the strip.
For wholesale changes, I use the process menu and sometimes the find/replace filter.

You can also write/run CAL scripts to do things, unspeakable things, to velocities.
 
Bob Bone
 

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In PRV I spend a lot of time messing with velocities. It's so difficult. Has anyone figured out a good way to make velocities easier to edit? Sure, all the functionality is there, but nothing about it is easy. For example, in a piano piece, how can I edit velocities in the melody line in a track and not also edit the left hand part (in the same track)? I can opt to only show velocities on selected notes, but then I can only edit velocities on the entire selection together. The only way to edit individual velocities is to NOT have notes selected, in which case I can't see the melody from the rest of the parts. Also, once the selected velocities are shown, I can't see the un-selected ones at all, so I can't see them in context. Who designed this POS feature? Did anyone test usability on this? SO AGGRAVATING.
 
Sorry for ranting. Anyway, how can I do this more effectively?

 

1. Take a deep breath and Bre-e-e-a-the. 
2. Open the controller pane so you see the velocities in that view.
3. Lasso select all the right hand part notes.
4. Hold down the Alt key and draw the required velocities in the controller pane.

Usually the right hand is playing other notes besides just the melody, so I can't simply select the melody, I have to do a lot of Ctrl-clicking on individual notes. And isolating the melody on its own track means I would have to record in an unnatural way. 
 
FWIW, assuming it's already recorded and you are just tweaking velocities, this is what I would do (especially if the right and left hands don't cross):
Drag the melody notes in the PRV keyboard down to the left hand and cut/paste into another instance of your piano VST....or better yet, clone the track and delete the left hand notes in the cloned track.
Then draw the velocities using the velocity controller lane, then (if necessary) tweak individual notes.
Probably 10 ways to go about this but wanted to throw my 2 cents in.