Anyone know how to open the "Lanes" feature?

[Electriclight]

I bump this issue up every couple months in case someone new might have an answer...

According to the LE4 manual, if there are several takes recorded on top of each other, opening the Part Editor will allow the user to drag each take to a different lane. Only the top lanes can be heard. So then sections can be cut and juggled between lanes to form the "perfect take."

This would be a great time saver over what I do now which is to right click and bring each part to the front one at a time, deleting the worst, and trying to remember possible keepers.

The first LE4 that came out had a Lanes button on each track. But that version of LE4 had many bugs and when it was updated the Lanes button disappeared.

Anyone using Lanes?

[uab9253]

I had "lanes" sort of when I used stacked mode, but then I couldn't figure out how to switch to listen to or edit a different take, so I didn't try it again.

[Electriclight]

Stacked mode? Is that the cycle record mode? I'm thinking maybe I need to record in a certain way to make the "parts" available?

[richiebee]

I'm not sure how you're supposed to use it (I usually do everything in one take ) but I found once that I could drag the lanes over to new tracks.

[uab9253]

Originally Posted by Electriclight

Stacked mode? Is that the cycle record mode? I'm thinking maybe I need to record in a certain way to make the "parts" available?

I think you are on the right path. I changed the record mode to stacked and I could see each take stacking up. I didn't like how I didn't seem to be able to get into the stack. I think the manual covers it?

[sparqee]

I think there's some confusion between the feature set of SX and LE. Take a look at the feature comparison chart here: ftp://ftp.steinberg.net/Download/Cub...Comparison.pdf

You'll see that "stacked record mode" is not available in LE. The LE manual does mention lanes but it seems to be a feature in the audio wave edit window not the same sort of lanes that SX offers in the project window.

[Electriclight]

Thanks, that explains why I wasn't familiar with "stacked" recording.

But both LE and LE4 manuals mention "lanes" in the Part Editor window.

There was a lane button on the First LE4 and I think it worked, but that first version of LE4 would freeze up every time you tried to edit anything, so it wasn't long before it was replaced with a new version. The Lane button disappeared but the documentation never mentioned the Lane Button anyway. It simply says to open the Part Editor???

[jschmaus]

I am using Cubase LE and here's how I use lanes:

- record several takes in cycle mode
- select these takes with the object selection tool in the main window. Place the cursor just outside the audio clip before you draw the square with the object selection tool; the square only needs to touch all takes you want to bring into lanes
- select Audio --> Events to Part
- double click on the selected takes. This should open an audio part editor with the takes in separate lanes.

There are some great Cubase and Nuendo tutorials on youtube. I think that's where I saw how to open these lanes.

[Electriclight]

Hi,

I really appreciate your response. It's good to know that someone, somewhere can make this feature work.

I immediately opened a project where I had recorded in cycle mode. (Recording continues between the markers - each is named like take 1 (audio 16_4) correct?)

I sliced it into a manageable section and tried to select as you described. Events To Part stays grayed out.
So I tried to select the entire recorded section but Events to Part on the Audio menu is still grayed out.
I tried to drag a couple to a new track, thinking maybe there was a limit to the number of tracks but still it would not allow me to use the Event To Part function.

I remember on previous attempts months ago I could a least do the Events to Part and open the Part Editor - now even that seems impossible.

I'll look for those tutorials. Let me know if I've misunderstood any of your directions.

And thanks again, Dave

[jschmaus]

Dave,

I am running Cubase 1.0.10 build 110 on Windows XP 5.1 SP 2.

Build 110 is the update I downloaded from www.steinberg.net so that I could record 8 channels at at time instead of just 4. If you go to www.steinberg.net; support, downloads, Cubase LE1, you will see a link to download 1.0.10 build 110.

There is also a Cubase LE4 which appears to be something different. If you're running that maybe there's an update for that, too.

Some of the youtube tutorials I looked at show the lanes right in the project window which is different from how my software behaves.

Good luck!

John