Comp numbering confusion?

If you're just loop recording or even stop/starting and recording a new pass each time, then yes, the lanes should be numbered 1-n from bottom up so the newest take is on top.  The only way I've seen anything diferent is if I manually add or delete lanes.
 
But I've never come across any type of "pre-slicing".   Only if I comp or splt clips will that happen.
 

Ah yes, the "left-overs".  

Yeah, it's very strange.  Today, I had a loop set and recorded about 10 takes with comp on.  The takes were labeled "1" to "10" from top to bottom.  I remember thinking that's not what I was expecting.  Anyway, I undid the recording and started again.  I got the same numbering results.  I went through the same process one more time and SONAR numbered the takes "10" to "1" from top to bottom.  It really doesn't bother me that much but I do have to check each time to be sure I know which order the takes are in.  If this is not a bug than I clearly don't have a handle on how comp is working.

Yeah, I think this is a bug also.  I was recording using comp the other day for most of the day.  The numbering order was randomly flip flopping throughout the session.  I could not determine a pattern...'seemed totally random.

stevec
Weird...  I haven't come across any random lane numbering... yet.
 

Well, it's not that the lane numbering is random it's that the ascending and descending order is random.  For instance, 1-10 in one loop recording session and then 10-1 in another session.  I cannot predict which way the order is going to be from session to session.

I am finding putting region based effects on a lane causes all the other takes in the selected area to disappear and the new region edited clip to occupy the bottom (oldest) lane.  I discovered this by accident, because the first lane was a guide vocal and I had subsequently muted that lane.  When I created the a region based Melodyne edit, I could not hear the vocal anymore and that's when I expanded out the lanes and saw the problem.  I would have either expected that the melodyne clip should have stayed on the layer it was being applied to, or created a new lane - not re-use the original take lane.
 
So, while the layers are much better in X3, there are indeed still some strange quirks.

This is indeed an X2 project that I've moved to X3b.  It was about 1/2 done in X2. 
 
I use "comp" two different ways.  I use it to help write and develop new lead sections and then I'll use it to get the "keeper" tracks.  I was in the write and develop stage in X3b when I noticed the comp numbering issue.  The way I write and develop is to put a track in loop mode and start laying down ideas for a lead section.  Normally, I record about 10 to 20 takes to see if something bubbles up that I like.  Then I'll hit undo recording, which removes all takes, and I'll start refining the lead ideas.  The process continues until I've got some pretty solid lead ideas and then I'll set up as session specifically to get the keeper tracks.  So, during the write and develop stage I do not delete individual takes.  Instead, I undo the whole session so that I can start again building on the previous ideas...mentally.

Interesting...   I haven't done any comping in pre-X3 projects, and also haven't seen any mis-numbered lanes.   So perhaps there's something to Dave's suggestion that the version where the project originated is a factor...
 

Cool, I'm certainly curious to see what happens!
 

Just got through with a new session and this issue not only popped up, it got much much worse.  This is a project I started in X2a, not sure it this is a factor or not.
 
I was recording three harmony parts at one, each to its own track.  We punched in an average of 8 times each at 6 different parts of the song, for around 50 takes total takes per track.  Things seemed to go smoothly until I tried to edit the various takes down to one or two "keepers" per section for further work.  The symptoms are:
 
1) takes out of order as described above.  One chunk will be in descending order, and then another chunk in ascending order.  Total of around 4-5 "chunks" in various orders, with a few random stragglers thrown in for god measure (e.g., take #24 down at the bottom while 20-23 and 25-28 are all above).
 
2) even better, there are multiple takes that are doubled.  The clips are not doubled, but there are e.g. two takes #16 one with a clip and one without
 
3) dragging clips around to clean them up results in frequent random behavior that seems related to the take doubling noted above.  Sometimes moving a clip to an empty spot on e.g. take #16 results in it seeming  to disappear. I noticed this in X2a as well and had thought it was fixed in X3.  Perhaps a new twist, or at least I only just noticed, is that I can sometimes find the clip at the *other* take 16.  
 
4) more than one clip on some takes.  Given the way we recorded this should not have happened.
 
In short, this was a major mess that took me a long time to try to partially fix out so I could recreate usable tracks.  I did not notice anything like this on other projects, but I never had this many takes before.  I am curious if anyone else uses this many takes and what your experience has been.
 
I already sent a bug report about the track order issue and they responded it was being investigated. I will follow up with this additional info.

neirbod
Just got an email to my bug reporter from a few weeks ago that the take order issue is "Submitted to Development."  Hopefully this will address my more recent, and more troubling, issues as well.

Great!   Maybe it will be fixed in ... X3d.