My main gripe is, that I paid for the software, several thousand
bucks and then _I_ have to do the testing myself, jump through hoops
to recreate everything.
Its definitely a beta product that was rushed to market, or else they need to find a wider range of beta-testers. Evidently some people have great experiences, but many of us find it the worst version ever in terms of stability and bugs. I develop software myself, and when my users have bugs, I want them to notify me so that I can look into these things and fix them ASAP.
Somone mentioned a list that is going to be sent to Apple, can you add these to the list?
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My Newest Bugs :
- I dragged and dropped an older logic file with 100 midi loops, and then the arrange page display does not show correctly (I did this 5 times). I have dual monitors, and I would drag some sequences to a new track, and they would appear not to move on that window. However, looking at the other zoomed arrange page, I see they did move. Sometimes it was fixed by hitting the number for the screenset again. I finally gave up on the entire process.
- the FF/REW key commands often throw logic into play mode when stopped - which makes those useless for me, and makes it very hard to position the SPL on another bar line to cut.
- go to open a file and there is a disk problem of some sort, it just gives you the spinning colored disk indefinitely and you have to crash out of Logic
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and here are some I saved from before (that I and others wrote in several messages). I think there were some more too because the list got to over 50 items
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32. When you just want to record some keyboard to audio - you can shit select the midi channel and the audio channel - but no matter what order you select, the channel strip only shows the midi channel - so you can't see the meter strip.
## - Can't save autoload to template
43. What they heck does "Hyper" mean in the Hyper Editor?
Didn't you see Star Wars? The city computer told R2D2 that they disabled the hyper-drive on the Millenium Falcon, which R2 quickly fixed and they were able to jump to light speed. Also there is a city in India Hyperbad which might be a cool Asian dance music place, but I'm not sure. But I am sure that there are too many Hyper's in Logic - neither of which have any meaning at all. They seem to be two distinct graphic editors. I think apple is already moving away from this term by referring to "track based automation" and "region based automtion".
45. The manual's index is so bad as to be virtually useless.
Yeah, thats what I was just saying about the Audio to Groove command which does not appear in the index under audio, groove, midi, or anywhere.
> 46. The manual, in general, needs more "Step by step" examples
of doing
> common tasks and more screen shots. The manual seems to concentrate more on
> "what" the program can do rather than on "how" to do it.
Yeah, task based rather and common work strategies would be good for the tutorial. How to time correct. How to record audio. How to edit midi using linked windows. How to bounce a mix or bounce a track. The common stuff.
The thing I think is really important for the manul and the online reference ... is to put in common English words. Suppose you want to MOVE a note or region. You will get nowhere unless you know the magic word "Nudge". There's also some lack of consistency in using the same term in different parts of the key commands too.
## - When I play Ultrabeat on a track, it just plays continually. I can't make it stop and start.