chilldanny


Take Lanes a work in progress - fair enough.
But to not have any option to use Layers as many would prefer, is just, well, rude.

Automation Lanes on the other hand, superb and welcome addition.

I guess 1 out of 2 aint bad ;)

Yep I can relate to that. I stated here when the clamour was for automation lanes that I doubt I'd prefer them over the edit filter system and I was right (don't tell the wife though ).

At least I do have the option to carry on with the edit filter plus the luxury of using the lanes when I need them for multi envelope editing.

I guess that's the point, I would imagine that you as a user would be pretty 
miffed if they'd dropped the Edit Filter.

But hey, can't please everyone all the time eh?
(something I relay to the wife quite often )

I use these here thangs called "tracks" instead. 

Me too. 

Thanks to everyone for acknowledging the issues with take lanes.  I don't feel so "alone" in my struggles anymore! Lol!

8.5.3, for the win!!! (Again). I have to wonder why these new Lanes were rolled out broken after two years of development. Layers worked very well conceptually and just needed to be debugged a bit, not replaced with something that wasn't thought through or finished. Even an improved edit filter may have been a better route.

I have a hunch that Lanes will be like FX Chains - a structural change that's being implemented now, but will be improved over time. I've been using them, but am not quite sure I've figured out how best to exploit them yet.

I have a hunch that Lanes will be like FX Chains - a structural change that's being implemented now, but will be improved over time.

 
We can certainly hope.   I, for one, still pefer Lanes over Layers, but there's not much I disagree with in the OP.   As counter-intuituve as that may seem.
 

+1 Steve. I think there's far more to come yet and let's face it lanes are just layers, repositioned with better controls. I can't really see how they were going to get those better controls given the space limitations of the track header.

If a "Break out lanes and minimise track" button was there and they could be re-sized to greater extremes the change would all be positive as far as I can see. At the moment they are a little more clumsy but the room to improve is quite literally, greater than layers ever was.

FastBikerBoy


+1 Steve. I think there's far more to come yet and let's face it lanes are just layers, repositioned with better controls. I can't really see how they were going to get those better controls given the space limitations of the track header.

If a "Break out lanes and minimise track" button was there and they could be re-sized to greater extremes the change would all be positive as far as I can see. At the moment they are a little more clumsy but the room to improve is quite literally, greater than layers ever was.

Exactly.  I think they decided that in order to bring layers to the next level they had to take a different approach.  That meant re-writing a lot of code.  They were able to get to a certain level with Lanes, and then had to release X2.  I'm sure they will come out with a "rebuild" function and other functions that people liked in Layers..

Another +1.   I'd imagine that Layers simply didn't have the potential of this new take on things (pun intended), and being part of the X series UI has built-in room to grow.