When I record a drum kit, I use 6 microphones, and 6 separate tracks in Logic. Is there a way for me to record multiple takes of the drums so that all of the drums appear as one track in the arrange page? How does auto-mute and create track on cycle record work when you have 6 audio objects recording simultaneously? The arrange page gets cluttered quickly. I am looking for a way to group the tracks together for arrangement purposes. Is this what folders are for? I've never used folders. Can you rec-enable the folder and it auto rec- enables all the contained tracks? Any advice on how to work this out? Thanks, Josh

At 6:10 pm +0000 30/9/04, J wrote: >When I record a drum kit, I use 6 microphones, and 6 separate tracks >in Logic. Is there a way for me to record multiple takes of the drums >so that all of the drums appear as one track in the arrange page? How >does auto-mute and create track on cycle record work when you have 6 >audio objects recording simultaneously? The arrange page gets >cluttered quickly. I am looking for a way to group the tracks >together for arrangement purposes. Is this what folders are for? I've >never used folders. Can you rec-enable the folder and it auto rec- >enables all the contained tracks? Any advice on how to work this out? sure, I track live bands all the time - and i use folders to do it. Immediately after the take I use the key command "Pack folder". All tracks go into a new folder which I label. All tracks are now empty and record enabled ready for the next take. check out folders! -- Best Regards, Gareth Jones http://www.garethjones.com

When we record drums we use 12-14 mics, and do multiple takes, sometimes upwards of 8, and you have to folder them, because once you get over 150 or so visible tracks in Logic, even if they are the same tracks duplicated many times, Logic can't display all the waveforms without freaking out the program and crashing....