Ok. Well, yes, I know the lanes system.
And... well, it's okay. I wouldn't say I love it, but it pretty much works.
Honestly, I don't actually use it that much because it can be a bit tricky. It's too easy to mess things up. After maticulously deciding which take to use in which spot in your recording by doing a sort of complicated combination of selection, moving the cut points, etc. All it takes to mess the WHOLE thing up is to click on the wrong thing ONCE. And although I don't remember for sure, I THINK those changes might not be "undo-able" (much like mixer changes in Cubase, which is another thing that drives me crazy. In Ableton EVERYTHING is undo-able). I could be wrong about that though. In ANY case, it's too easy to mess up your comp takes without realizing it in the Cubase 6 system. It seems like a good idea at first glance, but when you start working with it, you start to see what a sort of.. pain in the butt it is. I think that might be why they changed back to an earlier system that people liked better (along with some improvements) in Cubase 6.5. At least I hope it's better.
So the short of it is, I have used it, and under certain circumstances it might be totally fine, but I really don't use it anymore except on a very limited basis. If I don't feel that I got the perfect take (or as close to perfect as I can get it), I'll erase the take and do it again. It's that simple. Unless there's a specific reason for me to sing a part all the way through (and there are good reasons for this), I rarely do that in the the studio. I break the song out into sections and sing one section at a time. If I REALLY need to go back to a previous take, I'll find it in the pool and resurrect it from there. Then again, I have the luxury of actually being the performer when I'm doing this. So if I don't like it, I can just sing it again. You wouldn't have that luxury with a singer you have to bring in for a liimited time, and use the takes they give you for better or worse.
Anyway, I'm going on and on about it, but the short of it is that the lanes system is fairly cool, and very easy to use, but at the same time, it's very easy to screw it up as well. I suspect there's a better way, and I'm curious to delve into Cubase 6.5 to see what they've come up with on that front.