Just to elaborate on how I did this before in Nuendo and it would be a cool feature for Sonar to have is you literally just right clicked on the clip and it gave you a numbered list of the takes. You selected the one you wanted and it would come to the surface for playback and editing while muting all the other clips. It was super handy. I do like Sonar's way of showing all the takes separately but if it had a way to do what I described while the layers were hidden it would be perfect.

With track layers visible, select the clip you want to edit and then turn layers off. The clip will appear on top.

@Steve... Thankyouthankyouthankyou... I KNEW it had to be something easy like that. If I could send pints through the internet I would. Cheers.

Cheers

Cheers indeed. That would have been a real problem. As a guitar player I'm sure you understand how important this can be for leads... which is exactly what I'm doing. Thanks again.

Okay... that was a little messed up. Doing slices that way unmutes a random take underneath it which would then come to the top after the slice. So I set my slice point with the Now Time indicator with the take expanded, switched back to show layers, made my cut on the take I wanted and it worked. Very odd. Yeah... definitely need take lanes methinks.

SteveStrummerUK


With track layers visible, select the clip you want to edit and then turn layers off. The clip will appear on top.

Thanks also, Steve, I didn't know that.  There have been several times in the past I have needed this.
 
Now I try it on an old project it seems so obvious.  You're a star.
 
Thanks again.  I learn more about this program every day.
 
Jonathan.

I clone the track, and then delete the dups.

Much easier to use separate tracks, edit, and then drag the good bits to a new track.

Hold the shift key when dragging to maintain time.

Best is to use control-shift drag to create copies in the new track, instead of moving.

And then bounce to clips.

Or, route all tracks to same bus, and use the bus as the source to bounce to tracks.

Regardless of what X2's new lanes bring to the table, I wonder why the maximum vertical zoom is restricted to the height of a track?

I suppose it might be a throwback to a time before track layers, when it might have been assumed that we wouldn't need to see any more of a single waveform to be able to work on it (or even two waveforms in the case of a stereo track).

I know absolutely nothing about programming, but I wouldn't have thought it would require a big change in the code to allow us to zoom in closer vertically.