Tho I still find it hard to make my edits as accurate with the new paradigm, they can be done very quickly... I'm not sure which procedure you're using here, but I use the smart tool almost exclusively these days.... I can drag select the bottom portion of a track and perform whatever edit quickly...
 
Not that many edits require a lot of precision and it can often be hard to get start/end points without going through changes... I still found the accuracy of my earlier (8.5.3 and previous) method easier and faster for those.... but time will tell with some of the new tools in speed comping....
 
I hope to find out first hand someday...
 
Keni
 
 

Beepster
I've also been getting better at using my keyboard controller for more tonal input and I'll be spending some time getting more proficient with my padkontrol for drums (although I'll have to do two swipes... one for upper kit and the second for kick drums which might be weird but I think it will work). So doing that with Input Quantize, slowing down tempos for input or outright step recording I'll likely end up spending very little time meticulously inputting data into the PRV with the trackball. Just editing and tweaking.
 
We'll see though but creating drum parts in particular with the PRV isn't nearly as much fun as hammering away with my hands.

That actually may be a big part of the equation...   I "play in" way more MIDI than I manually enter in the PRV.    For me, the PRV is more for editing and adding notes where needed.
 

I found this really weird at first when it changed in X2. After a few days, I came to the conclusion it was much better. I find it really quick to use now. I think it's not go obviousness on its side though. I'd say set aside an hour, messing around with all the gestures while looking in the help file about it. For me, I now only change tools from the smart tool about once every three months, seriously.

The PRV is where it's changed the most, but those changes make PRV editing more similar to editing everywhere else, once you click with it.
 

John T
I found this really weird at first when it changed in X2. After a few days, I came to the conclusion it was much better. I find it really quick to use now. I think it's not go obviousness on its side though. I'd say set aside an hour, messing around with all the gestures while looking in the help file about it. For me, I now only change tools from the smart tool about once every three months, seriously.

Same here.  I use the Smart Tool all the time, and only switch to others rarely.
 
One of the main times I switched was whilst comping, to use the Isolate tool, but with the new fast comping, I think even that will be redundant.

wow thank u guys...info overload on some ill need to dissect later...I knew it was from x1 to x2..just mistyped, plus I upgraded to 2 and 3 came out 2 days later.// lucky huh...  I figured it'd be said you'll like it when u get use to it...but I could cruz with smart tool in x1... from what I hope bikerboy said was I still can with a right click ..haven't tried yet.hopeful it is that simple ...love sonar have since2010  def like all the gadgets in 3... wow the nomads are cool sounding huh...only have 20 hrs in x3 as of yet..18 of which tracking of course.. only other thing makes me scream
when I set the grid to a 16th to nudge around it reverts back to whatever... sure its an easy fix
thanks again guys
 
 

The biggest change I remember is the change from lasso being on left click to it being on right click, and left click now being a different type of selection. It completely threw me at first, but it's actually loads more useful the way it is now once you get used to it.