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Yes, this was already recommended in the thread we have for posting free plugins, here:

Record-enable both tracks with the software instruments on, and press record. Unless I'm misunderstanding you?

PCM uncompressed data is what it is - there are a certain amount of samples/per second, which will result in the file size you get for the length of your project. If you want it to be smaller, you can cut out some bars or a section or so, or you can reduce the quality by bouncing 16-bit and/or with a lower sample rate. It seems somewhat arbitrary to define an uncompressed WAV bounce to a file size limit, but if you need to work to that, work out how much time it gives you, and constrain your music to that time span, unless you're happy with making the bounces lower quality. If you need more control over quality/versus file size and you'll need to move to compressed formats like mp3, and juggle the quality settings.

If you're struggling with reading those details, other than changing your monitor settings (you might be running it very bright, for example, which isn't going to help) you may want to experiment with your Mac's accessibility settings - there are a bunch of things to change the contrast, brightness, text readability and so on, and you might find something there that works better for you, as some practical things you can do to improve the situation for you. (I have no problem reading the dark orange on the light grey background, there is plenty of contrast there for me on my monitors. They are certainly a long way from "unreadable" for me, but we all have different vision etc.)

People have always been fearful and alarmist towards new technologies, particularly disruptive ones - for mostly understandable reasons. AI is just the latest one - will it reshape society? Probably yes, like many technologies before (eg, printing press, TV, computers, internet, mobile phones, social media etc). Will some people abuse it? Sure. Will some people embrace it and empower them to do creative things, and possibly more things than they could have previously? Sure. Much as it ever was. I don't really share the "this new technology <insert fears of the current moment here> is going to be the death of XXX"... attitude generally, but it's always good to be wary, and understand the implications of new technologies, and hopefully deploy and use them wisely (as much as humans can, of course...), and monitor our progress as we go in case we don't like the direction and course correct. There's already plenty of bad music out there - if you worry about people who don't learn to play instruments or how music works, then the bad news is computers and software and accessible technologies let these people make music decades ago. (I'd argue that that's no bad thing, personally, I was no more a good musician when I first unwrapped my Casio VL-Tone than anyone else loading Garageband for the first time, but of course it does mean that the more people who *can* make art, means that there's more low-quality art out there, while some of these people will develop into good artists over time.) That doesn't change the fact that there are still great musicians, making great music, and it's good to focus on the music you like, rather than the stuff that you don't. Being creative is a human thing, and regardless of what else is going on, I don't see any historical evidence that past technological progress has changed human nature, nor do I expect this latest one to do so. And is it hard to making a living from creative work? Yes. It always has been. Having an extra virtual bassist window in Logic isn't really going to change my musical output, and while I'll play with it for sure, based on how Drummer works I can pretty much guess what it's going to be like, and for me, it's likely not going to replace me putting my own bass lines down. It's probably a fun thing that can come in handy sometimes, and maybe for some people it'll be a godsend (like Drummer was, a lot of people just seem to not be able to do drums at all, or even be interested in it) but I suspect largely for me, like the Score Editor, or other tools I don't use, that window will mostly stay closed. However, I *am* interested in the changes that the release notes may reveal, and those are more important to me. 👍

No, there is no current easy way to do this I believe. I don't think you can do it via LUA either, as when I looked into it, scripts here only let you create a limited set of assignments into the top "no zone" layer only, so that limits what you can do unless your requirements are really basic. (However, I've not looked into the LUA stuff in depth, and it's not documented, so I'm not fully aware of the extent of what's possible here.) A little while back I spent some time reversing the controller assignments file format to let be able to do things like this, including batch updates to broken assignments* (which I use when Logic breaks my assignments), import/export of all assignments for a particular control surface and so on, because I also have use cases for these things - it's not often straightforward to just replace the current CS with a backup if you've in the meantime added a new controller or something. These are all things that are earmarked to be rolled into my lrep app at some point, alongside other useful little Logic-related things like this. But in the meantime, you'll have to make do. (Before I could fix the CS prefs directly, I used to use Keyboard Maestro to go through and make bulk changes - faster than doing it manually, but this is a lot slower than directly editing the file with a lot of changes.)

I think it was the three-finger scroll thing that can control the faders...

Doesn't work for me either, but I never use it that so wouldn't notice. I prefer to grab physical controls for the most part, but don't mind the odd bit of mouse tweaking where necessary. I remember you can get macOS trackpad preferences to let you drag faders, so it's possible some macOS mouse settings perhaps enable this feature.

Yep, my Powerbook G4 was underpowered compared to my PC at the time. But it was a Mac, it was mobile, and it was glorious! But switching to Intel was a great move (as was leaving it again). Fun times!

It's pretty much a standard in pro apps across the board, from Photoshop, to Nuke, to Media Composer to Pro Tools... If you need a hot pink Logic, there is LPX Colouriser app you can use to customise your installation and tweak the colours to taste... There's no current way to colour the full faders, like you can in Pro Tools etc, unfortunately.

Oh..! I thought you'd started already... 😉

Logic Pro (6.4 I'm fairly sure) was the version they rolled all the optional plugins in (as a result of the Apple buyout) - and it was the first rebrand from "Logic Audio Platinum" to "Logic Pro". I remember happily spending the upgrade fee, which was half the cost of Space Designer alone previously, and it was also the first time I moved to the Mac - so it was happy days all around! Space Designer first came in Logic 6.3: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/emagic-space-designer Logic 7 was the first "Apple-ised" version of Logic, where the previous emagic interface was given an Apple overhaul to more closely match the pro app design language of the time (eg, Final Cut Pro 7, DVD Studio etc)

So was the ES1. I still have the CD case I bought mine - in fact the ES1 was the first software synth I bought (and the EXS24 was the second virtual instrument I bought).

Nope, they were all there in Logic 5: "Up to 32 Audio Instruments can be used simultaneously within Logic Platinum 5, CPU power and RAM permitting, and as if inviting you to test this new ceiling, Emagic have bundled three simple but very effective software synthesizers with version 5: ESM is a monophonic bass synthesizer which has a very TB‑like flavour. ESP is a polyphonic 'analogue style' synth. ESE, with its inbuilt chorus/ensemble effects, is designed specifically for creating pad and ensemble sounds. All three feature simple, stylised interfaces that remind me a little of crop circles, and all come with a selection of sample patches to get you started." https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/emagic-logic-v5-logic-control

I actually liked a lot of design work emagic did back then, both print and on-screen, but these weren't their finest moments...