Take lanes

Take lanes provide an alternative method of viewing and editing overlapping clips on tracks. Overlapping clips can occur when you record multiple takes on the same track. Take lanes can be expanded or collapsed on each track. When expanded, Take lanes are indented below the parent track. Take lanes can be created, hidden, and removed, and each track can have an unlimited number of lanes.

Take lanes provide many benefits, including:

Better visibility of clip data.

Less screen clutter on track strips.

Ability to quickly mute and solo individual takes.

Better workflow for creating a final composite take out of many separate takes.

To show a track’s Take lanes, click the track’s Expand/collapse Take lanes button .

Figure 200. Take lanes collapsed.

Figure 201. Take lanes expanded.

A. Parent track B. Take lanes

When you view clips in separate Take lanes, it’s easy to mute and solo them individually and eventually come up with a composite take, with only the best clips playing back.

When you use loop recording, you can store all your takes in the same track, and then use the Mute tool or Audition (selection playback) to hear only the ones you want.

If you enable a track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button , Cakewalk moves the track’s clips to separate lanes whenever any of the following happens:

You use loop recording in Comping or Sound on Sound mode, and choose to store takes in a single track.

You record over some pre-existing data while in Sound on Sound mode.

The track contains at least one overlapping clip.

 

Note: The Smart tool is powerful, but may produce unintended results in certain situations, such as inadvertently isolating clips in Take lanes when clicking the bottom half of clips. If you are not strictly using Take lanes for comping, you may want to disable the Smart tool’s comping behavior. To do so, long press or right-click the Smart tool button to open the Smart tool menu, then clear the Comp option. For details, see To customize the Smart tool.

 

See:

Take lane controls

Using Take lanes

 

See also:

Comping