Bus 32-64 Bug?

I agree with Bee Jay that the following statement is not true

"You have created 64 "real" bus objects by performing the mentioned steps"

My understanding is that there is a fine distinction between "components" and "objects"

Components
They are visible in the Audio Configuration window and you can't change their availability in that window. What you see here i based on the following settings:
* Inputs: based on the selcted Audio Device (I usually call them "input busses", not to be confused with "Input Objects")
* Outputs: based on the selcted Audio Device (I usually call them "output busses" not to be confused with "Output Objects")
* Busses: 32 or 64 based on the Audio Preference Setting (I usually call them "aux busses" not to be confused with "Bus Objects" or "Aux Objects")
* Tracks: max 255, based on the Audio Preference Setting
* Instruments: always 128
* Aux: default 3, (max I think 255, if they have been created in the Environment)
* Rewire: based on installed Rewire applications

The Audio Configuration window shows you what components are available to you based on your setup. Those are the elements that are available for you to assign to audio Objects in the Environment

Objects
In the Environment, you create Objects and assign Components to it. Those Objects then can be assigned to sequencer tracks. You can delete all Objects in your Environment and still have the Components available.

But from here on, it gets really tricky:
When you create an audio Object and assign a Component to it (the Environment calls it "channel"), i.e. an Audio Instrument, then that Object becomes and Audio Instrument Object, using an Audio Instrument Component. Now yo can assign that Object to a Sequencer Track and play it. What happens when you delete this Object?
The Object is gone in the Environment and you can't use it in the Sequencer anymore. BUT, all the settings you made to that Object are still there, when assigning the same Audio Instrument Component to a new Audio Object.
So from no on it is more a question of the use of different terminology than what is right or wrong.

Is a Component an Object (because it seems to store all the information you made when you assigned it to an Object), or do you only call an Object what you create in the Environment.
How about a spiritual explanation of that issue: "The Component is the soul that can live without the Object (body), but a body can't live without a soul. When a soul (Component) reincarnates into a body (Object), it carries the imprint of the soul (Component). When the body dies (delete the Object), the soul (Component) will still live on until it reincarnates into a new body (Object) with its new experience from its previous lives (edits made to the previous Object)

Back to the "Logic" world.
The question is, when changing the settings in the Audio Preferences that affect the components (Bus, Tracks, Input, Output), should the Audio Configuration window follow and reflect that?
The way Logic behaves, it doesn't look like a bug, because it is consistent. If you change the Track number from 48 to 4, then the behavior with the "leftover" components and grayed out menu items is the same. Also, when you have an Audio Device selected with 20 Inputs/Outputs and then switch to the Built-in Audio Device.
Restart doesn't clean the leftovers, it seemed to be stored in the song file.

Back to the bus. If not a bug, at least it is annoying when you have to scroll to 64 item menu when you defined only 32.


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