Using Take lanes

To expand/collapse a track’s Take lanes

Click a track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button .

Any existing clips are moved from the parent track to separate Take lanes.

Tip: To show/hide Take lanes in the current track, press SHIFT+T.

Figure 79. You can expand and collapse Take lanes on each track.

A. Take lanes expanded B. Take lanes collapsed

After Take lanes are expanded, you can move clips on top of each other without Music Creator automatically creating new Take lanes.

Note 1: If you want to move a clip to the exact same time placement in an adjacent lane, hold the SHIFT key down while you drag.

Note 2: If the Track view Options > Auto Crossfade option is enabled, Music Creator adds a crossfade between any newly overlapped clips that are on the same Take lane.

Take lanes and Automation lanes can be displayed simultaneously. Take lanes are always displayed immediately below the parent track, and Automation lanes are displayed below the Take lanes.

The Expand/collapse Take Lanes button has three states:

Collapsed, with no existing lanes. The button is not highlighted .

Collapsed, with at least one existing lane. The button has a soft blue glow .

Expanded. The button is solid blue .

To insert a new Take lane

1.	Click a track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button.

2.	Click the Insert new lane button in an existing Take lane.

A new lane is created below the clicked lane. New Take lanes are automatically named T1, T2, T3, etc.

To remove a lane

Click the lane’s Remove lane button . The lane is removed, and any existing clips are deleted.

To reorder lanes

Click any empty space in a lane and drag the lane up or down to the desired location.

To resize lanes

Move the mouse pointer over the gap below a lane until the cursor looks like this , then drag up or down to resize the lane to your liking.

When you resize a lane, all other Take lanes and Automation lanes in the same track automatically inherit the same height.

Figure 80. Drag the splitter bar up/down to resize lanes.

To mute or unmute a Take lane

Click the Take lane’s Mute button .

To solo or unsolo a Take lane

Click the Take lane’s Solo button .

You can only solo one Take lane at a time.

To arm a Take lane for recording

Click the Take lane’s Arm for Recording button .

You can only arm one Take lane at a time.

Note: If a track’s Take lanes are expanded while recording into the parent track, the recorded data will be moved to a new Take lane after recording is stopped.

To loop record multiple takes into separate Take lanes

1.	Go to Edit > Preferences > Project - Record, or right-click the Record button to access recording settings.

2.	Under the Recording Mode options, choose Sound on Sound (Blend).

3.	Under Loop Recording, choose Store Takes in a Single Track, and click OK.

4.	Click the target track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button so Take lanes are visible.

5.	Click the parent track’s Arm for Recording button. Note: It is important that you arm the parent track, not an existing Take lane.

6.	Set your loop boundaries and start recording multiple passes through the looped area.

7.	Stop recording.

To select a lane

Click the top left corner of the Take lane.

To select all Take lanes in a track, do one of the following:

Double-click the top left corner in any Take lane.

Click the parent track’s track number.

To edit clip automation in a Take lane

1.	Click a track’s Expand/collapse Take lanes button .

2.	Click the Take lane’s Edit Filter, point to Clip Automation, and select the desired clip automation parameter. Created envelopes are displayed in bold text at the top of the menu.

3.	Use the global tools to edit automation envelopes. For details see Tools.

To crop overlapping clips to eliminate overlap

1.	In a multi-lane track, move either the Smart tool or the Edit tool between two overlapping clips until the cursor turns into the overlap cropping tool.

A. Overlap cropping tool

2.	In the space between the clips, click the spot where you want the first clip to end and the second one to begin. Music Creator crops both clips so that they no longer overlap.

See:

Clip muting and isolating (clip soloing)

To edit a specific Take lane control across multiple tracks

Quick Groups allow you to effortlessly adjust identical controls across the same Take lane in different tracks. For example, you can quickly mute all Take lanes named T2. You can Quick Group the Mute, Solo, Arm for Recording and Edit Filter controls. Quick Groups can either affect all tracks, or only selected tracks of the same type. You hold down the CTRL key to momentarily create a Quick Group.

Quick Groups operate on lanes with the same original name across different tracks, not in lanes on the same track. All Take lanes remember their original name, even if you rename the lanes. For example, all Take lanes originally named T2 are grouped, even if some of them have been renamed.

Do one of the following:

To adjust the same control in all tracks. Hold down the CTRL key and adjust a control in a track that is not selected. Music Creator automatically adjusts the same control in all other tracks.

To adjust the same control in selected tracks. Select the tracks you want to adjust, then hold down the CTRL key and adjust a control in any selected track. Music Creator automatically adjusts the same control in all other selected tracks of the same type.

For example, to change the Edit Filter on all Take lanes originally named T2, select the tracks you want to include in the Quick Group, then hold down the CTRL key while you adjust the Edit Filter control on any selected lane named T2.

When you adjust controls in a Quick Group, each affected control displays a temporary group color.

For more information about Quick Groups, see Quick Groups.

 

See:

Take lanes and comping takes

Take lane controls