Unmute Take Lane to Record another

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Yeah, I found the Auto-Punch Mute option. Unfortunately, using Punch in and Punch out is way too tedious for what we're doing. It's a lot of work to set up punch points for each line. It's much easier to simply drive between tracks and Take Lanes of each track. What makes sense here in any of the settings I've found or seen is that all of the comping and multiple takes are best suited for a guitarist wanting to keep the recorder going to nail that perfect take. For a busy vocalist, who is screaming or yelling their lines at the top of their lungs, looping is definitely not the way to record them.  
 
It's an understatement how revolutionary our line-by-line (not take by take) recording technique is to scream-o or fast-punk vocals. We're nailing the takes quickly and effectively without wearing out the vocalist. But with that said, it would greatly help accuracy and flow if the vocalist can hear the previous line just before landing the next line. Being able to switch back and forth between Take Lanes would be more efficient than switching between tracks. But so far, the only way we could figure out how to do this was to go back to tracking between tracks as we did in X2/X1. We simply could not find a way to have Sonar play the unmuted Take Lanes when tracking a new lane. I personally don't think it's possible in X3 yet. I'd love to be wrong, though. Thanks!

Yeah, Sound On Sound also muted. I don't think it's a setting. I think Sonar simply does not allow other Takes to be played back while recording another. I've not seen where it is possible, but had hoped it was by now.
 
Sidenote: The new comping selecting method is confusing if you're used to pressing "K" over a highlighted clip. It definitely takes some getting familiar with, but boy it made me punch some new holes in my proverbial wall. I'd like to disable all Comping tools when tracking. They rock when mixing or comping, but not tracking.

Well, crud. I'm not sure why this isn't working for me. Now, would I be able to create a new Take Lane manually and hear the previous one? Recording (even with Sound on Sound) on top of the previous Take doesn't visually give me a warm fuzzy yet. Plus, with this way of recording, comping is being done while we're tracking, saving even more time.

As mentioned in the other thread. Punch will mute previous takes when looping, regardless of the record mode or setting of Mute Previous Takes.  If you want to hear previous takes with Sound on Sound mode, you either need to be not looping or not punching.

Brian - just to clarify - are these takes in the same region that you want to hear or previous takes? I thought I understood what you were doing but brundlefly (in the other thread) has made me think perhaps I'm mis-understanding.
 
If you have takes in previous regions that you want to hear (as cues) for the next line then "sound on sound" as recording mode will allow you to do that while creating new takes at the current position, whether you are looping or not. If looping though it won't automatically mute the previous takes. You need comping mode to do that which will also mute the cue takes.
 

Karl,
   Thanks for asking. Let me step through just to simplify from my end.
Expand a new vocal track to show Take Lanes (1 Lane to start).
1) Record a take on a new track of lyric line 1 (first line on the lyric sheet). Stop. Disarm Lane 1.
2) Click the "+" on the Take Lane to create a new Lane.
3) Set the cursor about halfway back through the lyric Line 1 above.
4) With the first Lane unmuted, arm Lane 2 and click record to grab lyric line 2. Stop.
5) Now disarm Lane 2 and arm Lane 1 to record lyric line 3.
 
Record takes back forth like this (odd-numbered lyric lines on Lane 1 and even-numbered lyric lines on Lane 2).
 
So, inherently, what I'm trying to accomplish is limiting the number of Take Lanes to 2, but record multiple lyrical lines back and forth because they either overlap words or they're just too intense to get them all in a contiguous performance.
 
Hope this helps. Thanks!
 
 
 
 

Karl, thanks again for your help and input. I'll give this a whirl tonight. I want to have a better process down before they come to finish up vocals. It was my fault we didn't finish the session last night because of all the troubleshooting. Maybe what you're suggesting, although it doesn't sound visually easy to keep track of, may work well enough to call it a solid workaround. I'll report back.