Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

At 10:29 Uhr -0500 01.02.2005, Eddie Sullivan wrote:
>Are there specific problems that you are having with L7 that we might
>be able to assist you with?

Yes and I talked about those so many times, I 
really don't want to hear the same suggestions 
anymore. I know this sounds bad, but if I read 
one more time to trash my prefs after having just 
rebuild them (huge pain, some of the options 
aren't there, some keycommands are double 
assigned after trashing and reimporting, some 
options I can't even set in Logic 7 have to do so 
in 6)

- matrix not responding correctly to "zoom to fit locators"
- floating windows sometimes (no pattern) 
accepting text and passing it along to the 
arrange page
- save dialog box not accepting the enter key
- clicks responding too late and as a result drag regions or tracks around
- clicks and pops on playback with 15 percent 
load (Bösendorfer 290 Piano and VSL strings)
- double assigned key commands (how can this happen?)
- open recent constantly being screwed up, what an amateur problem!
- instrument _selection_ box taking ages to appear (4 seconds!)
- small cycles (1 beat or less) only play back a 
couple of times then the audio stops
- sometimes double clicking in the matrix doesn't 
make _all_ regions appear in that window (no 
pattern here either)
- export all tracks as audio doesn't use the 
track objects name rendering the function almost 
useless
- OMF doesn't work correctly (which could solve the above problem)
- no overlap doesn't work when editing groups
- fades aren't applied to edit groups
- the edit line doesn't go past the global tracks
- global tracks selections and regular arrange 
selections do not cancel each other out resulting 
in deleted things that weren't supposed to be 
deleted.
- changing of start points / anchor points in the sample editor is not undoable
- aliases don't work correctly (I think they 
never have, but I haven't been around long 
enough, but one of the producers who works with 
Logic since about 91 and produced a couple of 
gold records I work for told me that he stopped 
using them after realizing that edits don't get 
reflected in the child)

these are all things that bother me every second 
of the day and took the fun out of composing with 
Logic and that I didn't even have to look up in 
that feedback document that we created over on 
the LUG

Maybe I do have to go back to paper and pencil.

Thanks for the effort, however, I don't think I 
can be helped. I'm doing support myself for 
several producers and engineers, they call me if 
they have questions. I setup environments for 
them. I manage their machines (they're all on 
Lopic 6 due to my advise BTW, that's at least $ 
1500 Apple is not getting from these guys).

No offense I've had it with this version and I 
feel I've been screwed and would like to give it 
back and just use Logic 6 until there is another 
version that is actually worth it's money. Not to 
say that most of the problems aren't there in 6, 
but at least 6 is more responsive and makes it 
somewhat reasonable to get something done.

Hans