Logic 12 Score is broken

I have just come online to see if others are having the same trouble I have been having with Logic's Score page. It has become unusable. Every time you enter a note or symbol manually the cursor display jumps to the end of the score – even tho the note you inserted remains hilit. You can’t use L or R arrows to make it move the display back to the note (which would be just about bearable).

When you have a bass clef line when entering a note it will often display the name of the note as if it was the equivalent note in the soprano clef, or otherwise, as shown here, quite randomly.

Generally, in the TOP stave of each system it wont let you alter the note vertically by dragging, only using the side panel or the floating display. The problem doesn’t seem to affect other staves within a system. When selecting notes it often wont select the notes ABOVE the stave at the same time as those WITHIN the stave, but seems to treat the top line as if it is a boundary.

I thought it was because I had an old Intel MacMini, so I bought anew MacStudio and it's no better. There is something wrong with the spatialisation process, how the processor recognises the selection made by the cursor.

These problems with Score page (nothing else) have existed for at least a year, and I have posted about it before but didn’t get any useful feedback, so I just assumed most people (& presumably everyone at Apple) don’t think it's worth bothering with. There have been no upgrades the score writing page since about v8; and it's a great shame because it used to be really useful.

I made a complaint directly to Apple and received a request to send them various files, which I did, but never heard anything back, nor did any recent upgrade contain a bugfix.

I attach some screen shots, but I can’t demonstrate how the score display jumps because I haven’t got enough hands!

You should post a screen capture video. There could be so many things like not activated link button or enabled transpose setting...

If you think, you've found a bug, send a detailed bug report to apple:

Feedback - Logic Pro - Apple

I spent an hour screen sharing with an Apple expert demonstrating the problems and he agreed it does seem to be a bug. I duly made another report, but with a heavy heart that I’d Apple’s super efficiency has failed to identify and release a solution it’s because they don’t have a team developing the Score page any longer.

Indeed, the feedback is never answered, but it is taken note of. You could also contact apple support by phone.

Sorry to hear about your problems. Have to say I have sorted mine though it took a while. I don’t didn’t have the same problem as you, so can’t help. It might just be a different way of doing things??

"Every time you enter a note or symbol manually the cursor display jumps to the end of the score – even tho the note you inserted remains hilit"

I've had that same issue, although I'm new to using Logic Score, but not new to using notation software.

I was hoping it's just a setting or something I haven't learned yet in Score.

I hope it's not a bug.

I have done AGAIN. But nobody ever replies and the recent 12.4 didn’t fix any of the bugs.

Logic is a great DAW and still my main production tool. But when it comes to advanced scoring, I rather use dedicated scoring/engraving software.