anyone else experienced these problems?

I got my vstudio100 a couple weeks ago and have been playing around.  Love it so far, with 5 caveats.

First up, I have done the firmware upgrade to 1.19, and am using it on a Snow Leopard macbook pro, but have not installed the snow leopard drivers yet, so this may solve my issues, but I am starting this thread in case anyone else has the problems, and if so we can find the solution here...

Issue1) track focus does not always change on the unit when I select a new track in Ableton Live with the mouse.  For example, I have track 1 selected, I move the fader on the vstudio and the fader on screen moves.  I then use my mouse to select track 8, and the fader on the vstudio jumps to the appropriate spot for track 8.  Now I use the mouse to select track 5, but the vstudio fader does not move, and if I move the fader on the vstudio, it continues to move the fader on track 8, not track 5, even though Ableton Live shows clearly that track 5 is the active track it should be listening to.  This is not always consistent, sometimes it behaves properly (like in the first part of the description) and about 1/3rd of the time it does not work correctly (behaving like the second part of the description).

Issue2) track selection jumps when using unit to scroll through tracks.  For example, I am on Track 1, I use the track select right/left buttons on the vstudio to move the track selection over to Track 3.  It works just fine.  Now I use the track select buttons to move to track 14, the selection moves track by track, but then will oddly jump to an unexpected track.  So it selects track 4, then track 5, then track 6, ...and when I hit it again to go to track 7, instead it jumps to track 2, or maybe track 1, or maybe track 4...  There doesn't seem to be consistency as to why it is not just continuing to track 14, or why it chooses certain tracks to jump to.

Issue3) audio drop.  This happens about once an evening.  The entire audio coming out of the unit stops.  If i turn off and on the vstudio without changing anything else, the audio returns.  I also get this on my digi002 at work when using it with Cubase or even iTunes, and also experienced it on an m-audio Ozonic, so who knows, maybe it's not local to the vstudio? Oddly my old Emagic2|6, built for OS9 and still working under OSX10.6, is rock solid and has never dropped audio, ever.  Sure it's noisy, but dependable; you bet!

Issue4) location of master mix volume knob.  Anyone else think this master volume knob is a bit too in-the-way, considering it is in your hands path to solo/arm/pan knob?  Several times i have been working fast reaching up to solo a track, and my hand rubs the master playback volume, cranking it up way-loud on the way by to the solo switch.  I think in future versions of the vstudio this knob needs to be moved a little out of the way from its current central location.

Issue5) The knob that controls PAN under Mackie Control (using Ableton Live again) has far too fine a resolution, and requires 5 or 6 full turns to get the pan pot to move from center to hard right/left.  Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of this knob so I can hard pan something in 1 or 2 turns?

So... anyone else experience these issues?  Anyone know fixes?  Any advice is appreciated, thanks!

Update: put in a ticket with techserv but haven't heard anything back yet.  Will keep this threat updated though once I hear.

One thing I have noticed about the errant track selection though; if I click on a track with my mouse and hit "assign" on the vstudio100 the fader does then control that track, but the unit only seems to remember mappings to 8 tracks at a time.  I can click around the 8 tracks i have "assigned" and the fader jumps appropriately, but click on any tracks other than the assigned ones and nothing happens.  However, hitting "assign" then controls that track, but i am not sure how the unit decides which of the existing 8 tracks it is following to drop.

I haven't found if there are "banks" of 8 tracks which you can scroll through on the unit to control more than just 8 tracks with the fader, so if anyone knows about that please let me know!  It would seem really odd if the unit could only ever remember 8 tracks it is assigned to at any given time.  I want to be able to have Live open to session view and be able to quickly grab a too-loud signal on any track and immediately pull it back, but having to select the track, hit assign on the unit, and then drag the fader maked it a bit too slow for fast reactions.

more update; got this from tech support today in regards to the issue of track selection not staying in focus on the unit:

"I have logged this issue with our development team and am pushing as hard as I can to get it addressed in the next firmware update. This issue appears to only happen in Ableton Live, however I agree that this is indeed high priority. We do have a firmware update currently in the works that is approaching soon, however I have no way of knowing whether or not this issue will be addressed at this time.
 

I will let you know if/when I receive any more information regarding this specific issue but unfortunately it is completely out of my hands at this time."

I'll keep this thread posted when i hear more details about when this fix might show up for Ableton users.