Last night I was happily plowing along on my new song “The End” when disaster struck.  Logic Express 7 crawled to a stop and when the dust cleared all but a few of my channel strips were obliterated.  Here is a glimpse of what the chaos looked like:

So where did all my settings go?  For those of you not familiar with Logic, all of the channel strips should look like the three strips in the screenshot that show the complete channel strip.  It turns out that when Logic froze, it changed my “Max. Number of Audio Tracks” to four!  Here is a picture of the audio driver window (after I changed it back to where it belongs):

Changing the number of audio tracks back to where I had it solved the problem and I was a happy camper once again.  It took me a little while to figure out what was happening so I hope this post might be able to help anyone else who stumbles on this problem!