re. Is there a way to verify that the CC event is being recorded by looking into the file?
hell, yes. :) while on the MIDI clip that conveys the recorded material, double-click on it or just (right-button-)click and select Clip/Edit... from the context-menu, now entering the MIDI clip editor or, as some like to call, the piano-roll or matrix editor:)
select "Controller" and then "4 - Foot Pedal (coarse)" (this is a the old GM assigned name for that controller number, fwiw.) on the drop-down list on its right--all CC#4 events, if any, will appear on the bottom time-line pane, depicted as like a bar-chart graphic;
turn on View/Windows/Events for showing up the complete MIDI event list, where among everything else, "Controller", "4 - Foot Pedal (coarse)" event items might get listed iif they are indeed parts of the subject MIDI clip contents.
re. Is there a way to verify that the CC event is being recorded by looking into the file?
hell, yes. :) while on the MIDI clip that conveys the recorded material, double-click on it or just (right-button-)click and select Clip/Edit... from the context-menu, now entering the MIDI clip editor or, as some like to call, the piano-roll or matrix editor:)
hth.
cheers