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Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement 355
Note: If you drag a folder to a track that is set to an instrument channel strip, its entire
contents (all MIDI regions within the folder) are played by this instrument. This usually
only makes sense if the folder contains tracks for a given instrument or instrument
type, such as a drum kit or generic string sound. This could be a quick way of listening
to a string arrangement, if some of the intended sound sources are unavailable, for
example.
As examples; a brass section folder could contain trumpet, saxophone, and trombone
tracks, or perhaps 14 tracks of drum instruments, which you may want to treat as a
single drum pattern region.
In the same way, your entire project, including all tracks and regions, could itself be a
folder, appearing as a gray beam in an arrangement. In this way, you could arrange
several projects for a concert.
This is not all that folders can do. You can use folders to represent song choruses and
verses, for example. As in the Finder, you can place as many folders as you like within
other folders, and within yet more folders (for the instrument groups within the
different parts of the song, as an example), with no limit to the number of levels you
can create.
Another possible use might be to store different arrangements of a project in different
folders, allowing you to switch between them rapidly.
Packing and Unpacking Folders
You can pack selected regions into a folder, or create an empty folder and add regions
to it.
To pack selected regions into a folder:
1 Select the desired regions.
2 Choose Region > Folder > Pack Folder (or use the corresponding key command,
default: Command-F).
This places all selected regions into a folder. Logic Express creates a track, and places
the folder region on it. If an existing folder track is selected, Logic Express copies the
regions into this folder.
If no region is selected, Logic Express creates an empty folder. It contains no regions—
just tracks assigned to all channel strips from the current level.