The more and more I use Lanes, the more I realize that there is no way any customer would want Lanes to work exactly the way they do. They are very obviously slapped into X2 and not
developed into X2. It seems they're very modular in code instead of integrated fully.
The reason I have come to this conclusion is that, per the suggestions I mentioned above, those suggestions would be more difficult to implement (more work on that team) than to simply
import a lot of the existing Track software to cut some serious corners. The buttons, the way Mute works, the way the Edit filter works independently of the Track, etc. All of this is very modular. There seems to be very little
feedback to the Track status as to what mode each Lane is in, so the Track has very little built-in intelligence of the status of its own Take Lanes. Conversely, there seems to be little control over Take Lanes at the Track level. Even though Track Mute/Solo supersedes the Lanes, it cannot control the Lanes' Mute/Solo, albeit the Record Arming sometimes can.
To make a practical example of my perception of Lanes, imagine shipping five music CDs to a customer, and although each CD comes in it's own protective case, you wish to ship them all in one larger container for a more protective and practical consolidation.
In a practical world, you only need to address the larger container to the recipient in order to get the five CDs to the customer. What if FedEx or UPS required you to individually address each CD to the customer, even though they are all sealed up in the larger container? Would that make any sense to you?
My perception of Take Lanes and how they were implemented into X2 is much like my example above. For instance, if you wish to set all the Take Lanes to show Volume Automation, simply setting that Edit Filter on the
Track doesn't do that correctly. You have to set the Edit Filter to Volume Automation individually or as a group-selection. That looks to me like an example of hasty modular coding and disparate functionality where it shouldn't be. In my opinion, Tracks and Take Lanes are integrated, but quite loosely.