Editing speed still painful..

hello list, back after a long absence touring australia and italy, yes I know.. it's tough..
anyway, so I'm back in the studio doing vocal sessions and editing, now on logic 7.2, still on a dual G5 2 gig.
maybe I was hoping for something out of the ordinary, but the editing speed is still a complete nightmare since logic 7 and it is now officially starting to drive me nuts. like many others, I have written to logic feedback about this but seemingly to no avail. what I am talking about btw is the fact that cutting, grabbing region starts/end to drag, fading and generally any kind of interaction with the arrange window is just too plain unresponsive for anyone that could call themselves a skilled editor. if you are one you will know what I mean. it may only be a fraction of a second to register that you have clicked on something, but this is just not good enough, because if you are like me and your hands move fast using a combination of mousing and key commands, you wind up being 3 or 4 edits ahead of logic before you realise that the interface has not reacted in time and you have accidentally dragged a region to who knows where or engaged an unwanted loop on something.
grr.
the annoying thing is that it was never this way on logic 6 and earlier, even on slow machines, even on OS9. interface responsiveness was close to immediate, I could work at full speed. now I find myself cursing, taking a deep breath and consciously slowing myself down lest I accidentally have to command-z to undo yet another botched cut... all this after a holiday..
rant almost over.. have noticed people are on intel coded logic now. any fast guys out there that know what I am talking about that are on intel yet, is there any sign of an improvement?? ie, getting back the responsiveness we had pre 7? it would be good if that were the case, but I'm not hopeful because it doesn't seem to be anything to do with a faster CPU or faster graphics (just got a new G5 with a bigger/faster graphics card here, no difference).
back to logic feedback I go...
G5 2x2Ghz / 4 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.2) LP 7.1.1 / HD3 / UAD1 / digi192io

Hey tbird,
I was wondering what happened to you - now I know. Welcome back.
I know what you mean about this point. I actually think there have been improvements in this area since 7.0, but still... it is a drag (no pun intended).
Starting with a new session it seems like response is 60 ms for and edit in the arrange... but those numbers aren't proven. Just a guess.
High numbers of events, big plugins and high number of objects in the arrange really make this worse. You have mentioned it could be because of the contextual cursor's status. It very well could be. I think you know Logic well enough to know how the plugs and events impact editing.
New features, new OS, new processor, new company, more plugs, it seems like the growing pains are still hitting users. 7.2 does seem like (aside from the UniBin) a good step towards higher number of events, more stable, reliable, less bugs in general. Has been very solid for me, less problems. Also just keeping everything up to date, Templates, objects really helps. Yes, I have had to adapt my workflow several ways to accomodate Logic. Not just with editing... I think most of us know how to make a ducker... And as far as development for Logic I am really more interested in reliability, responsiveness, handling of plugs - while making Logic work optimally on OS X... 7.2 is, for me, a big improvement in that regard. I spend way too much time moving things around, maintaining (insert G4 joke) - I am not convinced it is my computer.
So tbird - here's another yea vote as this is a step back.
Cheers,
J

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