I want to make an precise edit but can't get the clip tall enough to make a proper slice. A quick solution would be good. I double clicked but it opens the loop constructor thingy which I'm assuming I do not want for this type of thing. Cheers.

I'd imagine this is the type of workflow thing the take lanes in X2 will help with. Sorry for the derp guys but I'm still working my way around the nuances of how to make this stuff happen. Seems it's the little things that trip me up. Blerg.

Are you working in Track Layers? Is that why the clips you want to edit are too small to work with?

If so, maybe try Rebuild Layers and/or Remove Empty Layers to see if that tidies it up a bit.

Drag to another cloned track.

@Steve... Yes I am and I want to hang onto a bunch of these takes. It's displaying all of them stacked on top of each other at once. When I uncheck the Show Layers option it gives me a usable size but I'm not sure how to bring the one I want to the surface (I could do that easily in Nuendo but obviously X1 is very different) and I'm not sure how snip it without snipping the others. I'm gonna delete a bunch of takes to get a little more wiggle room but I see this being a major problem in the future. Fortunately it sounds like X2 will solve this but obviously that doesn't help me tonight. I hope you've been well, Steve and thank you. Cheers.

timidi,
 
Good idea.  However, is there anyway to lock it's position within the timeline so that you don't have to realign?  Another posibility is to clone the track, delete all non essential takes and remove empty layers as mentioned above. 
 
Adobe Audition allows you to lock a clip, but move it to other tracks, thus preserving its precise location.  This would be a cool feature in X2.  Maybe it's there but I don't know it!

@timidi... Well I'm still working out the solo. I want to take the first part I've done and then keep building on that on the same track. If I cloned something like that everytime my track count would be ridiculous. I'll figure something out to keep working tonight but it is something I'm gonna need to find a proper workflow for. As I said I'm used to Nuendo (a VERY old version) where you could pull up what ever take you wanted to the surface by right clicking and selecting. It even auto muted the ones underneath and any edits you did only applied to the top take... well it would apply to the top take and if you performed the function again it would apply it to the one underneath it. Whatever, it was weird but it worked. Kind of hoping to find something like that. In fact if I could just be able to pull that take to the top and snip it where I want without affecting the other takes I could work around that. Cheers.

@Flappmaggot... IRCC there is an option when you copy/paste clips to paste the clip at the original spot on the ruler. Even still that's pretty easy with a good slice and using the snap function.

You can open the track layers, select the one you want, nudge it down to a new track and work on that. 

If your track is at the very bottom, a new audio track will be created automatically for you.

Or else you can do the Clone with everything selected in the popup, deleted the layers / takes you don't want and work on the one you want.

Man... there has gotta be a way to do this without creating a new track. Oh well. One more reason to upgrade to X2 I guess.