Sort Lanes by Clip Background Color
I know this isn't important for many, but let me request it anyway.
The screenshot below shows lots of Take lanes in a vocal track. When you compare takes in a particular section (e.g. verse) and determin which take is the best, you might use the black text box embedded in each lane's header. But I don't use it. Because, typing text like "Better than 2nd lane, but not as good as 4th lane" for example isn't something I can do in 3 seconds, and also the text box can't be used exclusively for each section, meaning you have to delete the text you entered for the 1st verse when working on the 2nd verse, for example. So, the text box is useless for me. I've always wished I could remove the box and make the lanes as slim as minimized tracks.
So, how do I compare takes and determine the best one? I use clip background colors. In the screenshot, you can see blue clips and red clips. The blue ones are what I rated as good takes, and, after comparing them all, I changed the color of the clips I thought as best from blue to red. Rating clips by color this way is very fast and also makes it very easy to identify good and best takes. Of course, I now need to compare the red clips (some of which aren't shown in the screen, because they are in bottom lanes) and determine the real best, and then change the background colors of the remaining red clips back to blue. Sometimes, I need to go thought all blue clips again when the one I chose as best doesn't sound quite right. But, as you can imagine, this requires lots of mouse scrolls when the track contains many lanes (50+).
I've spent the last 3-4 hours doing this, and kept wishing I could right-click on one of the takes (clips) and choose "Sort Lanes by Clip Background Color" option. You know that Miscrosoft Excel's table has this feature (sort by cell color). I use it a lot. Very convenient.
I know this feature won't be implemented, because many in the Sonar forum don't even use different clip background colors in a single track. But I just had to request this.
Thanks