John T
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Changing separate tracks into take lanes
Is there a quick and easy way to do this? Sometimes I record on my non-computer based mobile rig, and then transfer stuff to Sonar for mixing. So anything I have multiple takes of comes in as separate tracks. Is there any kind of quick and simple method of selecting all the takes and turning them into a bunch of take lanes on one track?
post edited by John T - 2013/10/25 15:14:27
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 14:20:27
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☄ Helpfulby John T 2013/10/25 16:42:19
Not right now. It's a bit of a bear, I agree. I've talked to Dev and they agree so I think we may see something in a point release this cycle.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 14:26:26
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Ah, ok. Would be a really handy one for me. Select all the tracks, and then have a right click "Consolidate as take lanes" option or some such.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 14:26:46
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☼ Best Answerby John T 2013/10/25 16:42:09
John T
Is there a quick and easy way to do this?
Sometimes I record on my non-computer based mobile rig, and then transfer stuff to Sonar for mixing. So anything I have multiple takes of comes in as separate tracks.
Is there any kind of quick and simple method of selecting all the takes and turning them into a bunch of take lanes on one track?
yes! I wanted to try this out and actually came up with a way to do it.. .. It's really important you do exactly like this though to make it work.. :) - Create a new audio track and make sure it's located at the very top in the Track View window
- Also make sure this track has NO take lanes created (no empty ones even, that is)
- Select all the clips you want to include among the take lanes
- Left click the very bottom clip (of the ones you've selected) and drag and drop them on the new track at the very top. (It's important that you click and drag the bottom one)
- You've now got all the clips as take lanes in the top track! :)
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 14:39:03
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 15:16:57
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☄ Helpfulby John T 2013/10/25 22:45:59
John T
Ah, ok. Would be a really handy one for me. Select all the tracks, and then have a right click "Consolidate as take lanes" option or some such.
That's exactly what I'm thinking. It would be similar to how you'd put tracks into folders etc.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 15:27:03
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John T
Ah, ok. Would be a really handy one for me. Select all the tracks, and then have a right click "Consolidate as take lanes" option or some such.
Agreed. In the meantime, Loptec's solution seems to be a great workaround.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 16:40:05
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☄ Helpfulby John T 2013/10/25 16:42:02
Loptec, it's posts like this that make this forum so valuable.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 16:42:32
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 17:00:49
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☄ Helpfulby John T 2013/10/25 22:33:48
dubdisciple
Loptec, it's posts like this that make this forum so valuable.
Haha! Wow, thanks! =)
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 18:52:08
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+1
Nice, helpful find. GJ!
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 20:22:30
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Seth - super glad the team is looking at this and listening to these comments.
Loptec - thanks for the ingenious work-around!
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 22:44:32
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Loptec, all I want to know is how on this earth did you manage to find that solution? I can't imagine what you had to do to work that out.
That is fantastic!
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/25 23:02:14
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How ingenious, thanks loptec.
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/30 11:57:46
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Go Sweden!
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/30 12:19:54
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John
Loptec, all I want to know is how on this earth did you manage to find that solution? I can't imagine what you had to do to work that out.
That is fantastic!
That's what I want to know! The whole time I was reading his solution I was thinking "How many times did he try this before he came up with the 'right' method!" Good going Loptec
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/31 00:28:49
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Loptec
John T
Is there a quick and easy way to do this?
Sometimes I record on my non-computer based mobile rig, and then transfer stuff to Sonar for mixing. So anything I have multiple takes of comes in as separate tracks.
Is there any kind of quick and simple method of selecting all the takes and turning them into a bunch of take lanes on one track?
yes! I wanted to try this out and actually came up with a way to do it.. .. It's really important you do exactly like this though to make it work.. :)
- Create a new audio track and make sure it's located at the very top in the Track View window
- Also make sure this track has NO take lanes created (no empty ones even, that is)
- Select all the clips you want to include among the take lanes
- Left click the very bottom clip (of the ones you've selected) and drag and drop them on the new track at the very top. (It's important that you click and drag the bottom one)
- You've now got all the clips as take lanes in the top track! :)
Verified this also works in X2. "Loptec, all I want to know is how on this earth did you manage to find that solution? I can't imagine what you had to do to work that out."
Prolly like this: - Explore workaround solution with gamer's mindset/curiosity-looking behind every nook, cranny, door or corner of the gui environment.
- Use intuition or "educated guessing" based on experience
- PERR-SEE-VEEER-RENCE
or a combination of the above, huh Loptec?! "That is fantastic!" Agreed! Best, HeyDan 
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
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Or, trying to move a bunch of tracks when suddenly "crap where did they all go?!?" :)
Great find either way :)
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/10/31 06:19:17
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Sanderxpander
Or, trying to move a bunch of tracks when suddenly "crap where did they all go?!?" :)
Great find either way :)
Ha ha!! We might have a winner here folks 
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Re: Changing seperate tracks into take lanes
2013/11/02 14:49:43
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Hey! Have been kind of busy lately and haven't been around, but I'm really glad my find got so appreciated! =) heydan
Prolly like this:
- Explore workaround solution with gamer's mindset/curiosity-looking behind every nook, cranny, door or corner of the gui environment.
- Use intuition or "educated guessing" based on experience
- PERR-SEE-VEEER-RENCE
or a combination of the above, huh Loptec?!
Good guess! Mostly the second one however! :) I already knew that; if you have clips selected on several tracks and drag and drop them somewhere, the clip you grabbed on to ends up where the mouse pointer is and the other clips spread out from this position on the tracks above and below. If you've click and drag the very top clip, all clips spread out below the clicked clip when you drop them and if you click and drag the bottom clip they spread out above. I also already knew that Sonar creates new tracks at the bottom of a project if you drop an audio clip below the existing tracks.. It's not possible to drop clips ABOVE the existing tracks though.. This got me to try this method to see what Sonar would do with the clips in my selection located above the clip I clicked and dragged (all of them, in other words) if I dropped them on the track located at the very top. As I suspected Sonar couldn't create new tracks above track one, but instead placed all clips on this same track. The track also automaticly placed all the clips on separate take lanes, to my great joy. :) I had to try this again though, to make it failsafe. I deleted the clips from Track 1 and selected and dragged the clips to this track again. This time it didn't work though.. All clips ended up on Track 1, but they didn't end up on separate take lanes, now when the track already had take lanes created. ..So I deleted the empty take lanes and tried again and (again) it worked. :) I was lucky I guess that Sonar acted exactly the way I suspected it would this time. This is NOT always the case though, I might add ;P Sanderxpander
Or, trying to move a bunch of tracks when suddenly "crap where did they all go?!?" :)
Great find either way :)
A very good guess too ;)
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