User guide

354 Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement
To split MIDI regions by note pitches:
1 Select the desired MIDI regions.
2 Choose Region > Split/Demix > Demix by Note Pitch (or use the corresponding key
command).
Logic Express searches the selected MIDI regions for notes with different note numbers.
 A different MIDI region of the same length is created for every note number found.
 Tracks are created for these MIDI regions, and all are assigned to the same channel
strip as the original MIDI region.
This feature is especially useful for separating drum parts that have been recorded into
Logic Express from a drum machine—where all notes are on the same MIDI channel.
Each note region can then be assigned to another channel strip, or perhaps some can
be deleted, to thin out the original drum pattern.
Using Folders
A folder is a region that can contain other regions, much like a folder in the Finder can
contain other folders or files. In principle, you can edit folders as you would edit MIDI
regions.
One way to visualize a folder is as an arrangement within an arrangement. A folder can
contain as many tracks, featuring regions, as required. A closed folder looks like a MIDI
region, but is placed on a track assigned to a folder in the track list, rather than a
channel strip.
When opened, folders look just like the Arrange area and track list in a project.
All regions in the folder are routed to, and played by, the channel strips set in the
folder’s track list—as they would at the top level of the Arrange window.