GarageBand 10.0 is almost unusable

GarageBand 10.0 is almost a complete failure.
Though it doesn't crash on me, it constantly freezes quite often, so often its almost unusbale. I would expect this on a 3 year old mac, but not a 4 month old one that's top of the rangeat the time (Late 2012 Slim). Quad i7, 2GB Video, 16GB Ram.
Also I don't know if the settings are still there like the old version. The old version had the 'Edit' option where you could do Effect, Cutoff, Release, and also effects, reverb etc, i can no longer find half of it in the new version.
At the moment I hate it and would rather use the old version although without the use of Logic Pro sounds since the new version does use them.

after taking so long with making a quick track atfer all the stupid freezes. Managed to export a track (quicker than older version). I saved the project, I hit a problem, Logic Pro X doesn't open the GarageBand 10.0 file, it opens but there two blank tracks in there.

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