I do see the occasional thread about them. and tbh I have never even had more than a cursory look at them, so are they really all that useful?
What do folks actually use them for? 
Just askin' is all

I am sure if you looked at the longer threads about take lanes you will find users that find them useful for just what take lanes are intended for, takes. That is not to say that take lanes are in their final form. There are quite a few enhancements and fixes for that claim.

I find them easier to organize and work with than layers were. The notes section is particularly helpful. Different folks have different opinions on them though and they should probably introduce an option to use layers instead of lanes if the user prefers. It would solve a lot of the complaints.

It might be a better solution to address the issues with take lanes rather than adding back layers, which also had it's faults. It is hard to imagine that they would reintroduce layers, add the logic to control whether a project uses layers or lanes (or would this happen at the track level) and add methods to convert lanes to layers. Even with all of that added, CW would still need to address issues lanes and possibly sign up to fix layers too. Time will tell which way CW goes.

Take Lanes are a great idea. CW just should have afforded them more development/QA time, and gotten better feedback from Beta teams. It's implementation renders it unusable for some, but while others find them helpful, they do still need a bit of work--and that's not an opinion, that's a fact. There's some very obvious bugs in them, and definite mix-feelings about them still. The bugs/issues, or "cursidents" may not be experienced by everyone, but by enough people that the bugs should have been caught before release. Sorry to the QA folks. I realize time and resources can frequently be a challenge.
 
Once Take Lanes have been re-worked, bugs fixed, and feedback put to good use, they will be quite useful to nearly everyone. For me, I cannot trust Take Lanes for any sessions, so I cannot use them. For this, I wish Lanes still were an option at least.

Thanks guys. So essentially Take Lanes simply put subsequent takes automatically on to a new track or "lane"? Isn't this already possible using the existing CW methodology? 
I mean what is the real advantage to learning to use them? Especially when it seems the tool is so flaky.

It really depends on how you work. Some find comping lanes/layers easier than working with separate tracks. They also collapse into a single track.

Okay thanks - I might try and see if I can get some time to try them out.
 
Cheers

It's kind of funny to me because back in the Layers era I would hear lot's of people complaining about how unmanagable they were. Me I loved 'em! When I first saw the vids for X2 and specifically the Lanes portion I thought: "Cool! Better functionality for me and hopefully those who were complaining will have their problems solved." At first I had no issues but the more I used them they just seemed way to fiddly (though the cntrl-mute function is tres cool). At this point I use them but not without some trepidation which is really a drag.
 
The impression I get is they are usable for some but for others they have introduced more issues than they have solved. So my hope is they get some alpha brain waves and TLC before the next release. I'm ever hopeful.
 
Regards,
 
 

Take lanes are for comping, meaning creating a composite from multiple takes. For instance a singer might try 4 takes of a vocal track. Then you would select the best parts from the 4 takes to create the composite. Take lanes and the tools they provide should make this an extremely easy process. If using take lanes is not easier than using 4 different tracks for comping there is something wrong with take lanes.