Desperately need two lanes of markers

I guess no one wants two marker lanes, well people it is your cakewalk too and if you don't care about usability then suffer without it like I do.
 
This is the second time I have asked for 2 marker lanes. I am now stalling on a project for that reason alone. I have to go in one by one and add these markers. It is so time consuming I am wondering about other daws. 
 
It would be nice to not have to go searching for a piece of paper with the chords or lyrics associated with each project they are in my project where they belong. This is such a simple thing, lyrics and chords... really the most rudimentary part of making music. And cakewalk does not address either other than a lyrics view that is nearly impossible to work with.
 
If you can't give us two marker lanes then give us text tracks.

Why a DAW Might Not Be the Best Song Writing Tool
https://tropicaltheartist.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/why-a-daw-might-not-be-the-best-song-writing-tool/
 
This person has hit on the problem I am outlining here in this thread.
 
 
Excerpt
"Very few DAWs (if any) help you write lyrics to chord sequences, or make lyrics fit into the rhythm of your track.  At best, you might use a DAW to loop a section of music, while you try to write the lyrics, but it’s not too good at supporting this lyric to music fitting process.  Whether you start with chords first, or melody first, or lyrics first, fitting them together is usually not best done inside a DAW."
 
Comment:
Why are DAW's terrible for writing lyrics? Because they have terrible text interfaces into the midi stream.
 
The problem is adding chords and lyrics inside a DAW because the DAWs have not been modified to accommodate lyrics AND chord lanes. The concept is quite simple...
 
There needs to be at least two text lanes. Both are equally as vital.
 
And how many songs have lyrics and chords? Nearly all of them. How many DAWS accommodate text and chord lanes in the track view? Nearly none of them.
 
Try and get a guitar player to record along to your song by reading the chords strewn out on a piece of paper, it is terrible.
 
I need text tracks yesterday...
 
Why shouldn't a DAW aid the creative song making process from start to finish?
One that does will have a superior feature that none other has and most song writing artists need.
 
I would like to know that this is going to be addressed soon.
 
Excerpt"
"You see, a DAW is designed from the point of view of you already knowing what you want to record."
 
Comment:
Really? 

Thanks AntManB! I had that ideal lurking in my mind I considered using audio clips but my mind had not gotten far enough into the idea to consider midi clips. I will try that for this song and see how it works out. 
 
I would really never dream of writing lyrics in Cakewalk, I use Microsoft Word because the spellcheck just makes things easier. (and rhymer.com always got that open)
 
For me and my way of creating a song in a DAW is like flight in getting the song off the ground.
 
I write the lyrics and sometimes, not always, the chords. Sometimes the chords are straight forward and sometimes they are quite a bit more complex and convoluted.
 
Each song is very different but, I first find a basic drum track that fits the song style. Either a drum loop or these days more often, Addictive Drums 2.
 
I usually use a basic beat rather than the metronome because I figure I will need drums anyway and it sounds more realistic. Though sometimes I will leave the metronome on anyway while recording to tell where beat one is accentuated in each measure.
 
Then I try and play the song on my guitar and sing it into one audio track. I allow the vocals and guitar together in this track because it will only be a reference track and not be in the final song. Sometimes I will use two tracks but the guitar will still bleed into the vocal mic. 
 
This is where I am usually looking over to a lyrics page in Word that I have resized both the cakewalk window and the Word window so they can fit side by side. Mind you, this takes my eyes off cakewalk for the most part. This is getting the song off the ground. Once I have the reference track recorded I can then begin nailing down the song structure. This is where markers come in. Recording this reference track saves me hours of work. Otherwise I would have to map out the song on paper and that really is very tedious.
 
This way my reference track is easily mapped out to cakewalk's predetermined tempo. I play an estimation of how long the instrumental sections will be but I can split my reference track and move the section later to add or subtract a measure or two. 
 
As for the basic chord track I find a piano or guitar to be a good reference rather than a pad.
 
A piano has a nice attack where a pad is a bit to murky for some to sing along to.
 
This process is where the markers help to really map out the song and make it easy to add vocals and other instrument tracks along side the reference track. At that point with the markers the reference track can even be muted so as not to distract.
 
Not all songs I can do like this, sometimes I have to use a piano rather than an acoustic guitar or even a loop for my reference track and sometime I do not know at all how the vocal melody goes.
 
In this case I need to be able to sing several takes and experiment with the vocal melody and timing.
 
Once vocal comping is done then I can do my vocal markers. By this time my markers are usually chords.
 
Each song is different and the chords and lyric timing often evolve differently depending on the song difficulty and style.
 
Having two wheels under me (vocal markers and chord markers) help steady and balance the song till it can get off the ground.
 
Whether you think of it as getting off the ground or landing the song, the principle of needing two text lanes for chords and lyrics is still the same. Once these two text tracks have been fully satisfied then song can now be glued into place with other instrumentation and vocal tracks.
 
This probably belongs in a techniques thread but oh well it also cements my case for the need for easy to insert, on the fly, lyric and chord text events. 
 
I try and get the song mapped out fully before adding too many instrument and melodyne tracks. Sliding whole sections of a song to insert a measure can be tricky after the fact but it can be done with a bit of wrangling and cakewalk's great editing tools.
 
(Psst, the smart tool would be great for adding and editing text tracks.)
 
:)

Hey TheMaartian!
 
I was unaware of that program TuneSmith, EXCELLENT TIP!
 
I am going to buy it along with the rhymer plugin. It does more than I need but, that is a sign of a great program!
 
Who knows I may evolve into the deeper features of the program with time.
 
This is also a great program for Cakewalk Platinum to offer import of chords and lyrics into their ermmm... ahem, "newly designed text tracks"! 
 
REALLY excited about purchasing it and it works with Windows 10 too!!!
 
TOTALLY AWESOME!
THANKS!
 
 

I am still waiting for text tracks.... Band in a box has chord tracks...
 
I hope to see that this features is "in the oven" soon or I will be looking for a new sequencer for my early song creation needs. Cakewalk is great for editing and every update editing gets much better, once the tracks are solidified, but it is terrible for brainstorming initial ideas.
 
Seriously cakewalk is nearly unusable without text tracks for early song formation... 
 
I don't need load balancing though it is nice, I don't generally need multiple select and fancy new color schemes... I need chord tracks and text tracks. Practicality and usability over aesthetics. Color schemes I rarely ever even use, it is rather an after thought than a necessity.
 
Chords and text are rudimentary tracks and I hope your programmers get this on the FAST TRACK, it is interrupting my workflow terribly now. 
 
I seriously am thinking of changing sequencers and I just bought lifetime updates. Been on this Cakewalk train since DOS and without text tracks this is seriously no "cakewalk" anymore.
 

 
I need text tracks yesterday... I said this last month. Please indicate that this is in the works. Several years ago I wrote about this on these very forums and so have several others voiced this vital feature need. I have nearly 200 songs I have created in cakewalk and I am tired of jumping the same hoops time and again because there is a single marker lane and/or no text tracks. These text tracks don't need to be that sophisticated the markers certainly aren't. 
 
I end up with an entire new song virtually in my head because there are not multiple text and chord tracks to help nail down the song ideas and early structure formation.
 
Please halt some of the feature plans and address this need first.

+1 .   I use the markers to watch chord changes. Second or third lane would let me add so much more info.

I like your idea! I also have been needing this.
But shouldn't be limited to two...it should be "limitless" and you select from a dropdown which you want to view/show. Dropdown from saved marker-lists.