Can you disable shortcuts for plugins in Logic 8?

No, this has to be fixed by FAW (the Circle Plugin maker). I had a some plugins in the past that did just that, also the enter button bypassing. Just report to them or update maybe they fixed it.

Does anybody know how I can turn off keyboard shortcuts for plugins in Logic 8?

Specifically, I've been using FAW's Circle a lot lately, and when I'm in one of the windows there is a button that defaults to "randomize". Sadly that button is Enter, which I use to Play.

So, often I will be tweaking a patch and hit Enter to hear it in context and it will mess up all my settings! Of course, there's no way to undo that either. Drrrrr.

I could have sworn I saw something about that in the manual the other day but I've just been through it and I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's probably right in front of me.

It's very annoying isn't it. I am constantly irritated by my usual Logic keycommands being overridden just because I happen to have a plug in editor window selected. Same thing happens to me often with Reaktor, enter seems to just load up the next ensemble in the list, so hey presto I lose all my settings.

I know in Pro Tools there is (or at least used to be) a setting to allow keyboard input to pass through to plug ins, or to disable it. Logic should absolutely have this function as well, and it should have a simple toggle switch to turn it on or off. I've already written to Logic feedback about this, but you should do the same, the more complaints they get about it the better.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html

I'm not sure it is an Apple thing.. Well maybe but the keyboard focus should not be in the plugin (and should be respected) what the DAW sees as start and stop command. My guess is that the specs might be too unclear and Apple should be forcing this to be NILL as a valid keystroke for a plugin.

Maybe it's not directly an Apple thing, but it would be very easy for them to give us the option to work around it. Pro Tools already has a setting to allow you to choose whether your key command input is allowed to be passed to 3rd party plug in editor windows or not. No reason why Logic shouldn't offer us the same choice, a simple toggle tool in the customizable tool bar would do the trick and would save a lot of people a lot of annoying mistakes, not to mention having to be slowed down all the time by remembering to deselect a fronted window first just to get your usual key commands back. I just wrote to Logic feedback about this (again), I'd encourage anyone else who is bothered by this to do the same. Having an optional toggle switch won't bother anyone who doesn't care about this behaviour, but will be a very good enhancement to workflow for people who are constantly bothered by this.