[7.19] Track lanes: Move items up if possible to minimize lane usage not as described
Various times, to no avail, I have tried to use the action "Track lanes: Move items up if possible to minimize lane usage".
It took me a while to figure out what's going on, but it seems to be the following.
The action *sounds like* it will do what Cubase can do in a similar scenario--i.e., if a given take (item) occupies a certain space in a timeline, and there is a lane somewhere (anywhere) above where the same timeline space is empty, it will move that take up and give you a fairly neat consolidated view of all your takes in a much smaller list of lanes. Very helpful for multitrack comping.
However, what the action *actually does* appears to be merely, if a take (item) doesn't overlap at all with the one in the lane just above it, it will move it up one lane. Otherwise, it will do absolutely nothing.
The trouble with that, of course, is you could easily have several sections of a song where each group of takes overlaps with the previous group, yet various non-adjacent sections (e.g., first and third, or second and fourth) will not overlap at all. So you should be able to consolidate those non-adjacent, non-overlapping takes onto a single lane, regardless of any adjacent section's overlap. But because the first take of each section overlaps slightly with the previous section, and every take within the section inherently overlaps with all takes of the same section, the result is nothing happens and you still have the same number of lanes.
So it looks buggy to me.
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