X3 Take Lanes Mystery - Am I Doing This Correctly?

I think this question had come up before and I don't think the empty lanes are supposed to be automatically deleted, though I really don't recall why.
 
That said, it would be convenient to have the "delete empty lanes" command wired into the bounce command, at least as an option.
 

 
Steve, Craig - many thanks for your replies, and for the clarification.
 
I'd already knew about Remove Empty Take Lanes, I just couldn't understand why SONAR doesn't automatically remove any empty lanes during the bounce. Try as I might, I can't think of a single good reason for leaving them there 
 
 
 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
Steve, Craig - many thanks for your replies, and for the clarification.
 
I'd already knew about Remove Empty Take Lanes, I just couldn't understand why SONAR doesn't automatically remove any empty lanes during the bounce. Try as I might, I can't think of a single good reason for leaving them there 

 
If you use lots of Take Lanes as a "sandbox" for recording multiple takes, bounce only some of the clips as an intermediate step, and all empty lanes are removed, you'd need to create more lanes every time you did intermediate bounces. However if you were correlating particular parts to track numbers, you couldn't create lanes with the numbers that were removed. IOW if you had Takes 1-5, Takes 2+4 ended up empty, and you wanted to start a part on a new Take 4, you couldn't. If you create a new Take, it will be numbered Take 6.
 
Of course everyone's workflow is different but I rarely use Take Lanes, do a single bounce, and I'm done.  I end up dragging clips to newly-emptied Lanes, recording into them, and so on. For me, it would be more troublesome to keep having to create new empty lanes every time I bounced than it would be to right-click and delete any remaining ones when I'm done.