so i admit that i'm new to using the audio features of logic but there are a few things that are consistently aggravating me: first in interface: an example: i had a wonderful 8 measure bassline that was working quite well for me. until i tried to move it while logic was running. what happened when i clicked on the piece was that instead of the hand i got the stretch arrow i guess so it tried to extend the loop instead. why anyone would want to do this while in mid song unless specifically trying to fix something is beyond me. in my use 95% of the time that i'm going to click on an audio piece it's to move it. so anyway now my piece is longer than i need and doesn't loop correctly. so i should try to fix it, however when i look at it first i find that there seems to be a four beat space at the front with no audio. so i say that's wierd and go into the audio window and cut it off. now i go to the end, but i can't really discern where i should cut it off by the markings given so i decide to go back to the arrange window and try and resize it there. however, when i try to resize it to the correct loop i only have two options moving the mouse from let to right even down at full zoom. one choice is to little, one choice is too big. niether will loop right. i believe that what i need to do is adjust the grid size, but i can't quite figure it out and adjusting all the timing settings on the transport bar didn't help me at all. so now i am stopped and aggravated and unable to continue writing music because of something that i consider very stupid interface problems. even if this is happening for some logical reason, i can't really see how any of it would be beneficial to the user.... and it's very aggravating, mostly because there was nothing wrong with it to begin with. talk about non desctructive... other things that are adding to my trouble are logics seemingly difficult time with my computer. sometimes i'll be running every thing ok. sometime i'll be running two midi tracks and then it slows and slows and crashes all the insturments at once and then finally gives me the cpu or disk too slow message. other times i'm using it fine and then suddenly the mouse is halting here and there and the system is struggling to be used. i have even recieved a message saying that logic has performed an illegal operation and i must close the application. and this happened before and after shuting down logic. when it happened after it was while trying to shut down windows 98 and ended up hanging everything. thus, i am not a happy logic user. logic is wonderful and i love the interface, but if it doesn't work then it's useless. it will be nice when it does. no i'm not running the best system, but in my opinion this should be way fast enough or else someone can't code right PC with Windows 98 first edition with all updates from microsoft K6III 450mhz Asus P5A 128mb 100mhz RAM Maxtor 7200rpm 27Gb EIDE Hd Event Electronics Darla Creative Labs Awe 64 Gold (for sampling only) Generic Roland MPU-401 compatible which is pretty old (for midi) i'm thinking that perhaps alot of my problems are coming from the MPU-401 card cause it's an old VESA, but it seems to work better than the AWE. maybe somebody can recommend a good upgrade for me. any other thoughts on how to get better performance with a product that seems to promise more than it can handle are very welcome. thanks and sorry for such a long post justin