Maybe this?

Huh.
5.5.2 Unpack Takes
When two or more Takes exist for an Audio Event, it is possible to unpack the individual takes
to separate Events on new Tracks, new Layers, or existing Layers. To do this, [Right]/[Control]-click on the Event and click on Unpack Takes in the contextual menu.
Choose Unpack to Tracks to place each Take at the appropriate time on its own new Track.
Note that the settings of the originating Track are not duplicated for the new Tracks.

The thing is, when I right-click the track with the layers, everything in that screenshot from "Select Takes" to "Unpack Takes" isn't there.

The rest of the menu looks exactly the same, but those Unpack Layer options aren't there.

Is there a particular View or switch or something I need to enable to see them? I created the different layers by selecting the "Record Takes to Layers" option during the recording. And yet I don't see those items on the right-click menu - ?

Ok what version of Studio One are you using?

Like Luis said, "Takes" can be directly exploded to new tracks with that menu function, but I don't think there is a built in function to automatically copy "Layers" to new tracks, although you can get that done much easier with a macro which might be something like...

1. Select All On Track (for the active layer)
2. Copy
3. Create New Track
4. Paste at Original Position

If you bind something like that to a key you can just tap it to copy the active layer to a new track.

Hope that helps.

LMike wrote I don't think there is a built in function to automatically copy "Layers" to new tracks, although you can get that done much easier with a macro
Hope that helps.

You're right my mistake.

Thanks Luis and LMike. I'm using 2.6.2.25590 Professional - in particular a 32-bit version but also x64.

I guess I'm conflating "Takes" with "Layers", particularly because the menu item I picked to create them says "Record Takes to Layers". What's the (other?) difference?

(On preview, it looks like both of you agree there isn't a way to convert layers to new tracks?)

The difference confuses everyone a little tbh, the terminology vs. the more common way we all refer to them. I mean, I call recorded passes on layers "takes" like everyone else but technically speaking (in the S1 technical terminology) they're really not. But of course, in the common recording terminology, they really are.

So Luis wasn't really wrong there imo, given the reality of all that.

The main difference is that "Takes" only get created during loop recording. A take is really just a small region of a larger recording. Every loop cycle is considered a take when you loop record. Once you stop the transport you can't add anything else to that particular unique set of takes because every set of takes is just different regions from the same single audio file.

Layers are more like full virtual tracks.

It gets a little confusing for new users because you can have both happening at the same time. You can have multiple layers with multiple clips across those multiple layers with some of those clips having different sets of takes on them, if you loop recorded some of them.

Hope that helps a little.

Ah, yes that makes a lot more sense. Thanks LMike! Looks like I'll be investigating the macro approach next time.

Is there a button to turn a Community Forum post into a New Feature Request? Or is that its own new feature request . . .

thanks again.