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Take lanes and comping takes
Arranging and editing
Take lanes and comping takes
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 86. Take lanes collapsed.
Figure 87. 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)” on page 376 to hear only the ones you want.
If you enable a track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button , SONAR moves the track’s clips to
separate lanes whenever any of the following happens:
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B