I'm a lonely liker of take lanes.

When things split in a way i don't like, a bottom half swipe fixes it.

I usually keep playing until i get a take i like, but sometimes after hours off practice, my best take gets bungled for a bar.

So, zip zip, i replace the bar with one from my 72 previous takes.

Loop recording is reserved mostly for people I'm rushing through the session. I don't do much of it unless you count looping the tune.

Before i got an ssd, i had to delete takes rather quickly to avoid io related drop outs. Now they pile up to the sky. An interesting measure of practice time.

gswitz
 
I'm a lonely liker of take lanes.

No your not. I love CW comping feature. I can do as many takes of vocals, guitar, whatever I want, then go back and (here is the key word) QUICKLY comp a section, or a whole song.
 
A lot of the frustration of take lanes is really a misunderstanding of how/why they work the way they do. Example, when loop recording, just have a few bars before the recording starts and a few after the recording stops selected and loop that! CW is one of the only DAW's that I know of that has separate Loop Recording and Loop Playback.
 
Is Take Lanes/Comping with out bugs? Certainly not. But do these bugs make this great and innovative feature unusable? That's a big Heck No!
 
My suggestions, if you want to edit a comped trk like you would any other trk, Flatten your comp (not collapse. Two different things) then copy and paste the comped trk to another trk and edit till your heart's content.

I use take lanes. I record whatever number of takes I need in a track named something like "solo_draft", then split all the takes in the exact same place when possible (at natural breaks, often only couple bars long). I then copy-drag the best of these little individual take sections into a new regular audio track (without lanes) which I usually name something like "solo_aggregate". At that point I abandon and archive the "draft" take and use the "aggregate" track thereafter. 

rbecker
I use take lanes. I record whatever number of takes I need in a track named something like "solo_draft", then split all the takes in the exact same place when possible (at natural breaks, often only couple bars long). I then copy-drag the best of these little individual take sections into a new regular audio track (without lanes) which I usually name something like "solo_aggregate". At that point I abandon and archive the "draft" take and use the "aggregate" track thereafter. 

 
^this. Best method I've found. All the pros of take lanes ( speed comping, quick auditioning of options) but the stability of a new fresh audio track with just the clips needed. This new track is where I clean up, finalize fades, Melodyne then call it done.
 
Beauty of this method is if a client wants to reach back into the archive and search for different options on certain lines ( or look for doubles) you just open up that archive, audition things, pull what's needed and re-archive.
Only when a song is really done will I delete the "take archive". Fast and efficient.
My vocal comping time is literally cut in half to what it was several years ago.
 

I'm trying to deal with takes. Example: recording bass guitar with one DI signal + parallel Sansamp signal. After recording few takes it's a headache to comp my takes well and do some quantising stuff. In Reaper I usually group tracks that I will comp and quantise later. And then I do stretching for kick drum and snare drum. Others tracks moving automatically and that is very simple.

Yeah, comping anything with multiple input sources is tricky. I'd like to see that built out as a feature. Take lanes as they currently stand work really well for single mic stuff. But I'd like to be able to comp different takes of say, 8-12 mics on drums just as simply. Possibly, this is something of a niche requirement, though.

Grem

gswitz
 
I'm a lonely liker of take lanes.

No your not. I love CW comping feature.

Yeah, me too. I can think of ways it could be expanded, but I can't find anything to dislike about it.

I love take lanes. I couldn’t work without them.

I'm a big fan of speed comping, which requires Take Lanes. However I do them simply and "by the book." I don't get into any detailed editing, I use Take Lanes just for comping and choosing the parts I want. 

^^ Speed comping is my only use as well, one track only. For that use it is ideal, but I can see where complex variations have caused issues for some.

gswitz
Now they pile up to the sky. An interesting measure of practice time.

I admit I got a chuckle from this Geoff. Good thing you are not running tape! Try finding your best take then

Oh the things we take for granted with computers.