Is there a way to import audio into a take lane of a track?  I was sent several takes of a bass part and rather than have them on separate tracks, I'd prefer to import them into take lanes in a single track for comping.  I couldn't find a way to do it.  Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hi. Have you tried to drag and drop them from from the Browser to one track? As far as I can figure out, you need to do one at the time. When you expand the take lanes, you will see all takes in their own lane. Hope it helps.
All the best.

I would do the following if you need to import many tracks (but since you only need to import several tracks, Ken's method will do the job fine):
 
1. Drag the files into the blank area of the Track view (this will create new tracks, with each having one clip, as you already know).
2. Select the files (clips) imported and hit Ctrl+X to cut them.
3. Hit Ctrl+Alt+V to bring up the Paste Special dialog.
4. Select "New" from the Starting Track drop-down, tick the "Paste to One Track" box, then click OK.
5. Expand the Take lanes of the newly created track.

Here's how I do it.
 
1) Select the target track (where you want the audio to go).
 
2) Open the Media Browser (press B and click the Media tab).
 
3) Navigate to wherever you have the audio stored.
 
4) Right Click on each file one at a time selecting "Insert at Now Time".
 
All the files will land in the selected track and a new lane will be created for each audio file. If you trimmed the start of the audio files so they all line up before all this they'll line up in the project as well.
 
Note: When you do this all the Lanes/Takes will be audible at once so either click one of the Lane's "Solo" buttons (thus muting all the other Lanes) or select all the clips, press K on your keyboard (to mute them all) then click on the lower half of one of the clips to Promote it. That last method is what you'd want for comping the takes together.
 
Cheers.

Awesome, I didn't even know you could do that!

Thanks for the great ideas!  All of them work, but I liked Beepster's the best.  It was a bit qucker.

Happy to help. I've approached this task in the ways described here (and many others) throughout a LOT of collaborations.
 
The "Select Track", "Browse", "Insert at Now" method just kind of bubbled up to the surface as being the most precise and efficient option.
 
I may stumble across an easier method (or once Cake rebakes the Browser new methods may appear) but for now that way is foolproof.
 
I would however like it if I could select an existing LANE and toss a file into it and maybe have some kind of "batch" import option where I could set my target tracks/lanes for each file in a dialog, Click OK and have all the files land where I want. Currently it all needs to be done one file at a time if you want things going to existing tracks (AFAICT).
 
Cheers.

I would however like it if I could select an existing LANE and toss a file into it and maybe have some kind of "batch" import option where I could set my target tracks/lanes for each file in a dialog, Click OK and have all the files land where I want. Currently it all needs to be done one file at a time if you want things going to existing tracks (AFAICT).
 
That's what I was trying to do, but couldn't figure out how.

Ya... we aren't quite there yet. I don't think any other DAWs can do this well either though (could be totally wrong on that) so it's not like we're missing out.
 
A special import dialog for this type of stuff with lots of options to fire files right where they're needed (like Track/Lane designations, timeline points, sending the same file to muktiple tracks, etc for each file all in one dialog/action) would be awesome. Maybe allow things like conversion settings too (like if files are different samplerates/bit depths we can set that stuff and maybe choose the import render/conversion options for best quality).
 
Meh.

A special import dialog for this type of stuff with lots of options to fire files right where they're needed (like Track/Lane designations, timeline points, sending the same file to multiple tracks, etc for each file all in one dialog/action) would be awesome. Maybe allow things like conversion settings too (like if files are different samplerates/bit depths we can set that stuff and maybe choose the import render/conversion options for best quality).
 
I agree.  That would be useful.