Hi fellow Sonarians,
I'm hoping someone experiencing the same issue I am might have a good workflow to reduce my stress-levels  
 
Situation:
on most of my recordings i use audio & midi.
Whenever I loop-record a certain section of a song on my midi keyboard i'll then want to keep 2 or 3 of the versions;
either for layering once rendered to (different synths) or because later on I might find the other take to fit better.
-> directly after recording I want to go into PV and edit any obvious mistakes.
 
Problem:
Now the problem is that in PV I see all notes of all layers displayed simultaniously (& on top of each other). This is extremely frustrating and makes it near impossible to edit. If I select a layer in TV before going to PV then in PV the selected notes will be highlighted, but as soon as you click elsewhere the selection is gone + it's just still painfull to have all notes visible....
As far as I know in PRV I can only select different tracks to be in view, but not select/deselect layers within a track?
 
What am I missing...AM I missing something ?
I really don't like moving each llayer to a different track (and then back again) just for the sake of editing.
How do you guys go about this.
What other ideas/methods are there to simplify. I think I must be overseeing something.
 
Thanks for your time,
Mat
 
 
Edit: Thread title updated & marked solved

Sorry, I don't know a solution because I don't use layers for MIDI. OK, I guess that is an answer, at least to the last part of your query.
 
My own method is to repeatedly rehearse a part until I can get it right most of the time, and then hit Record. If I mess it up beyond one or two easily-edited mistakes, then it's CTL-Z, rewind and repeat. It can be a time-consuming process, but there is a benefit: every time I play the part, muscle-memory gradually relieves me of the need to think about the mechanics and frees my brain to turn to expression and nuance. 

The PRV is not lane aware. To work with a single lane, mute all the other clips and enable "Hide Muted Clips" in the PRV View menu.

 
Sorry, I thought you said "Hi fellow Sontarans". 
 
When you say "layers", I assume you mean "take lanes". Check out this tip by Beepster!
 
Edit: What scook said. He beat me to it. Beepster's post has the complete step-by-step.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...oll-View-m2961559.aspx

Awesome, awesome! Mat says thankyou!
 
Bit; that's what I do when I'm playing/recording a very specific part to a song. However for the scenario mentioned it's mostly finding new idea's or just jamming along (and wanting to keep them in the take-lanes)
 
Thanks a lot Scook & TheMaartian (& Beepster)-> I guess that is the solution I was looking for.
Can't wait to try it out. Hopefully I'll find some time in the next days...
 
However; to me it seems like a "bug"/ unexpected behaviour that when I have the take-lanes collapsed and open PRV for a selected clip/take that it shows all the notes of all takes in that track.
 
Could/should this be a feature request I wonder?  (I think I'll put an entry in if there isn't already)
Maybe the track selector within the PRV should also have a take-lane selector..... that would be the best way to handle this IMO. That way takes can be shown/edited independantly of them being muted or not.

It is not a bug, the PRV was designed to work with clips at the track level. I would bet there already is a feature request for a lane aware PRV. While I avoid using more than one lane for MIDI, comp mode along with the PRV mute clips setting would always only show the current comped take in the PRV.