I really want to like this feature, but it is simply half baked and erratic and a pain to use at this point. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if there was an option to switch back to the track layers method, but since we're stuck w/ take lanes as the only option then I think Cake needs to to do a lot of refinement of this feature for the next update, b/c as it stands now, the implementation is on the poor side imo.

+1, everything I do with take lanes takes longer than doing it with the track layers did. I especially hate the way zoom works with take lanes.  It's almost like the idea for this feature came from someone who never used the product.

I tried them out for the first time and was disappointed. I thought wow, I can copy a clip to another lane rather than use a delay effect. Nope. You can't highlight a lane and paste to it and if for some miracle it does, the clip above it disappears.

It seems to be half baked, as mentioned above. Great idea though.

Yeah, I was having the same problem pasting a clip into a lane. I selected "Take 5" and it pasted into "Take 3".

Guitarpima


I tried them out for the first time and was disappointed. I thought wow, I can copy a clip to another lane rather than use a delay effect. Nope. You can't highlight a lane and paste to it and if for some miracle it does, the clip above it disappears.

It seems to be half baked, as mentioned above. Great idea though.

Is rhis fearure meanr for xomping?

Just had my first bad experience with take lanes - with a client sitting there.

You cannot copy from a take lane to a track - it kept pasting itself onto a Midi track...two tracks up from where we wanted it.

You cannot bounce to clips, then drag to a track either.

That sure would make comping a simple drag n' drop experience...

We had to first bounce to clips, then solo each track and bounce to tracks for each segment that we wanted to keep.

Zoom would be great too if it worked like it does in tracks.

The numbering of take lanes also needs to be looked at as well.
When you clone a track for a new section of the song, and loop record to take lanes in the new track, the lanes start with the next # take, rather than starting at 1. (Since it's cloned, it thinks it's the same track. The work-around is setting up a new track, but that slows you down...)


This is huge when the client is starting to monitor his band member's takes, starts at 1, only to find out Sonar X2's take lanes started counting takes in this track at 17... A little simple math, but it throws you a curve that slows you down...


I agree that take lanes are a great idea, and if they worked, would be a better way to loop record, but I'm going back to multiple tracks option for loop recording, for easier editing.

Yep - Wanta' love those Take Lanes... Just can't yet...

MG

bigboi


Is rhis fearure meanr for xomping?

Lose your "t" and "c" keys?
 
 
Lanes are stupid.

And bring back or incorporate Layers, which worked & functioned just fine.
I like idea of Lanes but as it's so erratic & dysfunctional  it very much 'One step forward, two steps back'.

+1 for this. I just create new tracks for new takes as the take lanes work so bad.

+1