RodC
Max Output Level: -84 dBFS
- Total Posts : 302
- Joined: 2005/11/10 08:37:11
- Status: offline
Take lanes verdict
I haven't purchased X2 yet, but I have been looking at the videos quite a bit. I really like layers in X1, 8.5 etc. It appears that take lanes will take up a lot more real estate. Can they be shrunk to very small sizes like layers can be? I also don't like more room being taken up in the inspector.
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 22:57:23
(permalink)
A) they are selectable by track (see them or not, you choose)
B) each lane can be sized independent of the others
pretty much as you'd like it to be.
|
RodC
Max Output Level: -84 dBFS
- Total Posts : 302
- Joined: 2005/11/10 08:37:11
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:03:37
(permalink)
When you resize a track does the take lanes all size at the same time? The videos really don't show much of this.
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:06:12
(permalink)
Nope. Not in "normal operation" but I have not tried the "smart zoom" on tracks with lanes open yet so I can't say what happens then.
|
dke
Max Output Level: -76 dBFS
- Total Posts : 724
- Joined: 2007/07/07 15:17:51
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:17:30
(permalink)
The track lanes don't smart zoom with the track, though resizing a track lane affects all lanes on that track. The smallest you can make a track lane is double the size of a minimized track.
I really like the track lanes though there is certainly room for refinement.
Dan
Sonar Platinum ( x64), Windows 10 x64, HP Envy i5 2.9GHZ, 8GB, Tascam 4x4 USB, BX5a Monitors.
|
Psychobillybob
Max Output Level: -73 dBFS
- Total Posts : 882
- Joined: 2003/11/13 20:52:44
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:33:54
(permalink)
If you use much automation, like in manual ducking, the take lanes are great
I'm using SOnar Platinium on a 6 core Lynx Audio machine and a ton of vintage pre-amps/eq's/comps I build for fun and sometimes money, REDD.47/API/Neve I also use the UAD stuff, and also use a Macbook Logic 9 through Apogee...
|
RodC
Max Output Level: -84 dBFS
- Total Posts : 302
- Joined: 2005/11/10 08:37:11
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:41:08
(permalink)
dke
The track lanes don't smart zoom with the track, though resizing a track lane affects all lanes on that track. The smallest you can make a track lane is double the size of a minimized track.
I really like the track lanes though there is certainly room for refinement.
Dan
Wow, thats pretty large. I have some tracks with 8 or 10 layers that are pencil thin. Seems like we loose more real estate with every new feature.
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:55:48
(permalink)
RodC
dke
The track lanes don't smart zoom with the track, though resizing a track lane affects all lanes on that track. The smallest you can make a track lane is double the size of a minimized track.
I really like the track lanes though there is certainly room for refinement.
Dan
Wow, thats pretty large. I have some tracks with 8 or 10 layers that are pencil thin. Seems like we loose more real estate with every new feature.
Hey Rod, I guess we see track lanes differently. That's not bad or good. Just different. I would only use lanes for multiple takes (as I used layers) and then construct a single track from those many takes and kill all the unwanted fluff. To each his own, but if I thought to use lanes the way you do, I'd make each lane a track and then bus them to maintain one FX chain (if that is why you use layers over tracks, which is what I imagine you are doing).
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:56:49
(permalink)
Rod, I did not mean to be presumptuous in how you use layers, BTW. I was just expressing what I imagined you use them for.
|
Beepster
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 18001
- Joined: 2012/05/11 19:11:24
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/28 23:58:16
(permalink)
As was mentioned you can make them collapse however I was kind of hoping the would behave graphically just like tracks. Seems weird they used a completely different way of handling them. That said though they are WAY better than layers... like... way better. Way.
|
RodC
Max Output Level: -84 dBFS
- Total Posts : 302
- Joined: 2005/11/10 08:37:11
- Status: offline
Re:Take lanes verdict
2012/09/29 08:22:25
(permalink)
I use layers several ways.
First I use it to hold lots of takes and mute the ones I don't. If you don't save 5 or 6 you know the client is going to say "do you have that one I recorded 4 times ago? It was perfect now that I think of it" :) Or you are playing a part with an old un-predictable synth, sometimes what the band played 6 takes ago fits perfect with the 9th take.
Second, if you have a sound that you want to "layer" and not have a bunch of different automation or levels going on. I end up using this on old non midi synths a lot.
I also like to use them to archive multiple takes, and still have quick access. If I'm working on guitar sounds and I have recorded several takes, I like to have a track that is archived nearby, I can then drag clips to it to quickly clean up the current track and save the old work.
|