Can anyone help with these annoyances

Question

Hi,
I've used Logic since 2.4 and enjoyed its continued development and improvement up through Logic 7. Since the major retooling in Logic 8, I feel that it has become more buggy, less professional and genuinely less pleasurable to use. I've found work arounds (or just given up) on some things that used to be easy or even just "doable" in older version... Maybe some of you out there have some solutions to the following annoyances in Logic 9.x
I wish it would/could;;;
Return to last play position while in record. (worked fine on Logic 7)
Copy Drag consistently instead of just moving the part (even though the help tag says "copy" it only drags, then often puts it a measure ahead of where I put it) (worked fine on Logic 7)
Not Record audio while recording midi if an audio track is in "input" (worked fine on Logic 7)
Could resize screen objects and things like I really want them to look (worked fine on Logic 7)
Not have major lag times for things like renaming objects, deleting tracks in the arrange page, bouncing, opening 3rd party plug ins, (worked fine on Logic 7)
Have freedom to put the loop browser anywhere I want (worked fine on Logic 7)
Get key commands to work consistently (worked fine on Logic 7)
Could assign record names globally instead of only on the track being recorded (worked fine on Logic 7)
Have a visible tool bar for things like "pencil" "fade" "text" etc instead of a pull down menu (worked fine on Logic 7)
Have visual feedback when I've armed the "Fade" tool (worked fine on Logic 7)
Be able to choose fonts and sizes on individual score text objects (worked fine on Logic 7)
Not have help tags constantly bugging me when I'm resizing or moving notes and objects (worked fine on Logic 7)
Be able to create a new "audio object" in the environment (instead of having to copy something else and then reassign its purpose (worked fine on Logic 7)

Answer 1

Dan,
I can commiserate with you on most of these annoyances. Let's just say that we're kindred spirits in this regard. Hopefully I can help you alleviate some of these things that stick in your craw. I'll (try and) limit my comments to things that can be changed (as opposed to those which are "permanently broken"):
Could resize screen objects and things like I really want them to look (worked fine on Logic 7)
Plugin windows can be resized in L9. Aside from that, I'll (try to) stick to limiting my comments re those things that cannot be changed.
Have a visible tool bar for things like "pencil" "fade" "text" etc instead of a pull down menu (worked fine on Logic 7)
The variety of tools has been reduced (for your safety and well-being) to the lucky number of three, and that's only if you have the right click assigned as a tool. Otherwise you are limited to two. So it's still a palette, though compared to what we used to have it's kind of hard to swallow. In case you didn't notice, there's a pun in there. I almost missed it myself.
I have my "V" key programmed to call up the toolbox. Its close proximity to the spacebar (play/stop) and the CMD key (for assigning a tool to) make it an ideal way to change tools without having to mouse all the way across the screen to access the unpalatable palette.
Be able to choose fonts and sizes on individual score text objects (worked fine on Logic 7)
This is still possible using the slow-to-appear, WYSI-not-WYG, icky-looking, way-too-small-font "Fonts" editor in the score editor. *Text > Fonts...* And because it's no longer even remotely as easy to resize text I've gotten into using the resize tool, as well as setting up various boilerplate text styles using the text styles editor. One thing that's nice though (hey, it's not all bad) is that you can import text styles from other projects.
Not have help tags constantly bugging me when I'm resizing or moving notes and objects (worked fine on Logic 7)
These can be disabled in the Logic prefs: *Prefs > Display > General*
Be able to create a new "audio object" in the environment (instead of having to copy something else and then reassign its purpose (worked fine on Logic 7)
You can still do this. Environment: *New > Channel Strip > Audio*
The best thing about Logic 9 is flex editing. Othewise, gimme back L7 any day (minus the bugs, of course).