Hi everyone.. I have a few questions-- wonder if anyone here has the answers: #1. How can you set up multiple regions in the arrange window for specific looping puposes? For example, I am working on a flute & piano sonata, and I have just played > in the entire flute part, and I would now like to assign, measures 1-20 = page 1, measures 21-42 = page 2, etc.. so that I can then tell logic to loop specified pages.. is there a way to do this, or do I just have to write down on a paper what measure #s correspond to what pages, and then manually select that group of measures.. ? #2. is there a way to open up the ESX editor from the arrange window, without having to go into the environment and double click on the ESX24 part of the fader #3. is there a way to tell logic to clean up my environment? I have created a bunch of Audio objects to make audio instruments for the esx24, but my Audio environment window looks very messy and its hard to make sense out of nything.. how do I tell logic to allign all my stuff together neatly??? I have tried elecing all of the options under "CLEAN UP", but it does absolutely nothing. #4. When you deselct the chain in the matrix editor, and then click it again, it goes purple.. What does purple mean? thank you. Now as for the bugs: #1. If you have a bunch of time signature changes in the arrange window.. I had a file with probably 6-7 changes from 9/8 to 6/8... Anyway, I moved the part in the arrange further ahead, so then my time changes occured at the wrong spots.. So I went into the signature editor, and attempted to change the value of one of these events. I saw that all the numbers changed when I changeed one.. I thought. .Ohh.. Cool, it moves them all relative.. But then I examined it more closely and it made absolutely no sense. I had a change at 81.1.1 for example, and when I changed that to 88.1.1 some other events changed to 82.4.1.1 for example.. It made no sense, it was not relatively moving at all.. And further , I could not find any way to get it to just change one time signature event's time occurance without it affecting everything else in a bizarre way. Even double clicking on the event's time occurance, caused everything else to change in a weird way. #2. When a part contains sustain pedal value at 127 followed by note events (attempting to get a muddy effect), If you start playing the sequence at any point after the note events occur, immediately from the start of playing you will hear all of those note events occuring as a cluster at once.. In otherwords, if you have a part, playing alternating notes, C-G back and forth, slowly.. with the pedal down the entire time.. If you start playing at anypoint in there, you will hear every C-G doubled ontop of itself a thousand times, causing your speakers to blow up.. And more likely drive you crazy as playing it from those points will not give you any sense of what you are trying to listen for, etc. etc. The only way I could find around this was to remove the sustain pedal until after I was certain all my note events were correct, and that I was sure I would be playing from start to finish with no interruptions. And one more interface flaw for the road: When you have a region looped in the arrange window, and you move the locator to somewhere in that looped area, and start playing from that point, it automatically starts at the beginning--- Very annoying. So, say you want to have measures 10-20 looped, but you arent sure if 20 contains that last note you need to hear.. so you select 10-20, and move the cursor/locator to 19 to listen, and it starts at 10.. So you scream, and then turn off your loop and then listen to 19 and then turn it back on and adjust it to 21, where you meant to be in the first place... I encourage all of you who agree with me and my points in the thread "the PROBLEMS with Logic 6.3.1" to contact Emagic and express to them that there is a person out there (i.e. ME) who needs to be hired as a consultant to help them fix all of these things, and make the software much more user friendly. I get the sense that they need to have some musicians work for them. Though I don't know anything about their staff, but from the way things look.. I don't get that musical creative flow vibe from the software.. I do get a great technical vibe though... Need the best of both. -patrick http://collinatorstudios.com