Cakewalk please take a serious look at take lanes.....

I really want to like this feature, but it is simply half baked and erratic and a pain to use at this point. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if there was an option to switch back to the track layers method, but since we're stuck w/ take lanes as the only option then I think Cake needs to to do a lot of refinement of this feature for the next update, b/c as it stands now, the implementation is on the poor side imo.

I tried them out for the first time and was disappointed. I thought wow, I can copy a clip to another lane rather than use a delay effect. Nope. You can't highlight a lane and paste to it and if for some miracle it does, the clip above it disappears.

It seems to be half baked, as mentioned above. Great idea though.

Is rhis fearure meanr for xomping?

bigboi


Is rhis fearure meanr for xomping?

Lose your "t" and "c" keys?
 
 
Lanes are stupid.

+1 for this. I just create new tracks for new takes as the take lanes work so bad.

+1 

I hate track lanes!!! Really, don't get what the baker's where thinking...
track layers worked much better.

I'm on board here as well. I really am not liking the Take Lanes. There's some erratic behavior, yes, but it's sooo easy to get lost in the lanes, ESPECIALLY if you have your tracks assigned to Folders. There should have been at least some way to lighten or darken the Lanes vs the color of the tracks. When the lanes are collapsed, you can easily be fooled into "seeing" audio on the track, but it's audio from only the first Lane, not the only lane you may have Solo'd, for example. Mute buttons aren't always working properly (or rather, as expected) for Lanes. So, I agree, there's still something left to be desired. Can't please everyone, I know, but I'm personally no longer using lanes as a result, hoping Cakewalk will take another hard look at them.

Aside from the cutting and pasting issues I see I lake lanes much better than layers. You can get around the copy and past thing if you use the mouse to drag the clip to the lane or track you want it to go to. You just need to split on the snap to boundary and it will move easily.

Cake, what ever you do PLEASE leave the Automation Lanes. 
Love em'. The old system plain old sucked. but Automation Lanes are awesome.

Mike

I beg to disagree that Layers had gone as far as they could... I could think of many ways to keep them and advance their' utility...

Right off the bat? Have both available!

I just can't manage to stater how much I dislike them... All in the name of a few adjustments which could have been made to Layers and not brought all the adverse aspects of Lanes...

I too just cannot work with them tho I continue to try.... I sincerely hope that the Bakers have some plan underway to rectify these issues as this is more than a simple weak point. It is a major "in-your-face" item and is causing much trouble for far too many users...

For me I find absolutely no benefit and all increased problems... They couldn't even manage to keep the zoom features consistent with the previous versions and have left me in non-stop discomfort and increased my workload instead of streamlining my workflow...

Cakewalk had something a step above the competition.... Layers have been around a while and The Bakers found a versatile method of improving theis only to abandon it and join the fold...

To me? A bad choice... and I see it is so to many others... Bakers..... Are you listening? I know you monitor all these conversations and I can only hope that some of you see the importance and tend to this asap.... Not waiting for another major release as that is gonna hurt everyone...

For those who find it an improvement? I hope the solution maintains what you need/like about Lanes, but for many of us this has become a glaring issue...

I can't manage to state strongly enough how much this issue is painful.... and debilitating for me.

Sure I manage to get my work done anyway... But with much extra work and frustration that was enver experienced in Sonar before...

Please! Fix This! Quickly!

Someone hear our plea....

Now back to my comping nightmare.... I'll scream so more about it later...

Meanwhile, keep up the talk... Let's make sure The Bakers know just how dis-satisfied so many of us are and how badly these issues need to be addressed...

...and for those happy with how things currently are? I hope your projects are fun and plentiful.... Just don't forget those of us suffering in the wake of this....

A very sad Sonar user.... Please don't destroy my faith in Cakewalk.... Even tho Roland now "owns" it...

Keni

"They're not finished baking yet." Cakewalk's ovens are too slow for their cooks.

Whew! It's not just me being Mr. Negative ... you guys hate Take Lanes too. They really suck. No other way to put it.

I swear someone at Pro Tools has planted a saboteur at Cakewalk.

I don't agree at all with supporting both layers and lanes, IMO the best way forward is too pick one and do it well, not half baked having to wait for the next version or 2, if ever, of getting a well developed important feature implemented. 
Dan

I especially hate the way zoom works with take lanes.  It's almost like the idea for this feature came from someone who never used the product.

 
Yes! Who wants to zoom the empty track space next to the track header and have limited Zoom in the Lanes.
 
 X2 is designed for touchscreen implementation I'm afraid. That must be why we've got the "Smart Tools" that often take two hands to make an edit. 

Mike McQ loves 'em.  It's the main reason he upgraded to X2