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  1. I suppose the argument against a left-align is that it would seldom be obvious (to the software, at least) which region should be the "target" of the alignment. So it becomes a question of which region to target, and then it cascades into a series of "what ifs" and "buts"... heh... (having done a fair bit of software dev I know this kind of thing can become an endless rabbit hole!)
  2. @wonshu Yeah, I agree about selecting the wrong event; there are bound to be plenty of situations in which it would select something other than what was intended. This pair of key commands works pretty well, though. The funny thing is that I pretty much never use the "home" key, so it's very much outside my touch-typing repertoire!
  3. Just out of curiosity, you're on "smart" snapping and "snap regions to relative value" ?
  4. Well... the more I do it the better it gets... 🤣 I think maybe it's partly my set-up. Too much lateral motion to reach my trackpad, so my arm sometimes drifts a tiny bit between seeing the yellow, and releasing... maybe... ?? Not totally sure, but it's been a problem in Logic long enough for me to have noticed. Generally I just deal with it, though. It's obviously not too terribly awful or I would have made the leap to another pointing device by now. Heh... I think maybe it's just a small point of fatigue inducement (however minimal) that I'd rather avoid, and key commands remove any attention to precision.
  5. Sorry, I wasn't clear. Yes, I do see those, and they do work pretty well. I'll definitely keep that enabled. I just find it a bit finicky with the three-finger drag (i.e., sometimes on release the region moves off the snapped point). However, my "hit rate" does improve a lot if I just one-finger click-drag for precise dragging. So that's an option.
  6. Really, wow? Maybe I'm "holding it wrong"... 🤣 The problem I have is the delay on releasing—often times the region moves slightly during the release. I can release one finger before the others to "solve" that, but it's far from second nature to me. I wonder if I have some dodgy trackpad settings? EDIT: Obviously that delay-on-release is helpful, since it means you can do long drags as a series of shorter ones, but I find it can mess with precision.
  7. I think one of the problems I have with dragging is that I use the trackpad ("magic" or MacBook Pro built-in) with three-finger dragging, which is kinda crap for precise positioning. I know I should use a mouse or trackball, or just get used to click-dragging (again), but I'm working on my laptop a lot, so this use of the trackpad has become second nature to me.
  8. Yeah, I turned that on earlier, but hadn't realized what it was supposed to do... haha... It's not bad, but still requires more care than selecting regions and hitting keys.
  9. Hmm... respectfully disagree. I'm *very* regularly in situations where I'm dragging and dropping audio from various places, and it would be super helpful to be able to quickly align a bunch of new regions to the same start point. In fact, I do a *ton* of work that isn't on a normal "grid" at all—clock time, maybe, but that's not necessarily very helpful. It's by no means the majority of times that I dig down, define the tempo and metre, and start snapping everything to absolute positions. So, 95% of the time for you, sure, but maybe not for everybody.
  10. Ah... actually, left-align would definitely be better, as this doesn't seem to work for multiple regions.
  11. ...okay, kind of roundabout, but on my keyboard I can do ctl-home to move the cursor to the start of a selected region, then select the region to align and hit the semi-colon... basically, "navigate" to the start of the selected region, then "move to playhead"... I think this is equivalent to what @mbiaso was suggesting, just different Logic version (and keyboard)..? Anyway, the old "left align" from graphics software would be more straightforward.
  12. I found your question by googling the same thing. It's actually super weird that a simple left-align isn't available. It would be super handy.
  13. Ah, okay, so Scaler is kinda funky. Maybe I'll go through everything installed and just double-check that they all basically work. If anything is funky I can remove it for now and see if things are better. Mind you, my 10.6.2 is running okay for now, so I may leave it for now. Sleeping dogs and all that... EDIT: I only mention Kontakt because it's "officially" not supported on Monterey, btw. It seems to work fine for me, too.
  14. Yeah, interesting. Thanks for mentioning this. I suppose it may be that something in the init process gets banjaxed just by scanning and validating the plugin? It's certainly very possible that I have some not-quite-happy plugins in my system. Out of curiosity, does that plugin "work" otherwise? I'm using Kontakt regularly, for example, and it works fine, but that doesn't mean it's not causing the system some grief.
  15. Hmm... Interesting. I wonder if there's something going on with USB? I haven't tried built-in audio, to verify another user's observations, but if the problem comes back I may give it a shot. The version of 10.6.2 I installed is running fine now, mind you; none of the issues I was having on 10.7.2. Very mysterious... What version of the OS are you on?
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