You may know or be interested to know that Logic Pro 8 has an Audio Track limit of 255 Audio Tracks. My current session has 278 Environment objects, 255 of which are Audio Tracks. Trying to add another one brings up a dialogue box “No tracks could be created!” So that’s it. I hope this at least doubles in future releases.

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To edit  / view automation data for any function or process on an Aux or Stereo Bus Track, you need to make it visible in the Arrange Window.

1) Click on a track in the Arrange Area, below which you would like to place your Aux or Bus track.

2) open the Mixer pane and scroll to view the relevant Aux or Bus Channel Strip.

3) Hold down Ctrl and click on the target channel strip. You will see a menu.

4) Choose the 1st option ‘Create/Select Arrange Track’.

5) The channel strip is now visible as a track in the Arrange area. You can now apply and edit Channel Strip and Processing Plug-in automation just as you would with an Audio or Software Instrument track.

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By default:

a) Muting a Track in the Arrange Window is audibly slow to function. I always got frustrated with this latent response time.

b) Mute / Solo buttons in the Arrange and Mixer Windows are NOT linked. Can cause confusion if working in both panes on a busy session.

1)  Open the Audio Preferences Pane: Logic Pro > Preferences > Audio…

2) Click on the General Tab to reveal the Track  Mute/Solo drop-down menu option.

3) Click on’CPU-saving (Slow Response) to reveal and then choose the Fast (Remote Channel Strips) option.

Now, when you engage Solo or Mute in either the Arrange or Mixer Pane, the Track and Channel Strip respond together thus maintaining identical states.

The upside is that Track Mute in the Arrange window responds immediately.

MC.