List of things that are bugging me... If anyone knows a way round these???

Question

A few things that a grating me about the new Logic...
1. On all previous versions I could fix the transport in the top left of the screen. I use 2 monitors with screensets tailored for 2 screens. Now my transport is across the bottom permanently, it is more difficult to read due to the break in the 2 displays.
2. When creating a track in Pro 7, I could create busses, outputs, aux etc. Now I am just limited to Instrument or Audio. This makes the process of automating a bus long winded as I now have to set up a track, switch to my environment screen, patch the track I want to automate back to the main screen and then automated it. Surely this was easier before?
3. I have already mentioned the key command changes in a seperate thread... But it warrants mentioning again. Certain changes to the layout mean that key commands I have been using since version 5.5 are now not usable. Now I can understand that maybe for new users this may be easier, but for somebody like myself who uses these keys without even THINKING this is VERY annoying.
4. Having real problems with the smart snapping. On Pro 7 I just selected a quantize amount and then nudged with the keys. Simple. On 8 I find myself moving things around by very small increments without even realizing it. Grrrr...
Please don't get me wrong by all of this. The changes made to the plugs are awesome, and I am sure that when I get used to the new main screen I will find that very useful, but I cant help but think that all this new stuff like, no dongle, cheap price tag, bearing more than a little resemblance to Live is all geared towards the new user. Spare a thought for people who have ALWAYS used logic. We LIKE the way it works. We LIKE all those things that maybe other people found a little difficult... WE WANT TO LIKE THIS NEW VERSION...

Answer 1

1. That must be either something that they overlooked, something that is difficult to change, or complete nonsense on the part of Apple. A transport that can't be hidden or resized. LOL. That and that massive button bar across the top which also can not be resized or hidden. These things need to be optional/adjustable. Many of the new improvements to the interface are serving to cut into your screen space when people are trying hard to have as much screen space as possible. Two monitors, larger monitors, etc. Meanwhile, Apple does something that goes completely against the grain of this direction.
2. This one is interesting because according to the manual, Aux channels now completely take the place of bus channels, and the bus channel is only included for backward compatibility. But bus channels can only be created in the environment. But if you can just use an aux channel, then there's not much difficulty in doing it. Of course, it'll be different than what you've done in the past, but at least, not difficult. Once you assign an aux to some other track, you can control/click the aux track in the inspector, and choose create/select arrange track to make it visible in the arrange window with other tracks. Strangely though, Logic calls these tracks "Bus" in the inspector and routing dialog/list, but calls them Aux in the mixer. Very strange and of course very confusing for newbies, the opposite of what they were apparently trying to achieve.
3. Apparently, some key commands simply won't work anymore the way they used to. No way around that one except to carefully choose a new one that makes sense to you for the same task.
4. Does "division" rather than "smart" not work for you? I like division actually because you can set for example a 16 division, then snap at smaller division with control key, or Control/Shift to toggle snap off and move freely temporarily.
Overall, the new things in Logic Studio are more better than worse. The new interface, look and design are what I most dislike. I liked the dark look of Logic, everywhere, not just inside the various windows, and I liked that it was set up to allow for maximum screen space, right down to being able to hide the very scroll bars. Apple definitely has something different in mind now.