Audio Handeling

Hey Guys,
Been a Logic user for 2 years now and I've definitely got the hang of it in regards to how I need to use it.
However, lately I've had to start editing audio in more creative ways that I'm not used to for the artists I'm working with.
My basic question is, how do I copy sections of an audio file and paste it into a new track and change/edit it without effecting the origonal file I was copying in the first place.
For example:
I want to take the tail end of a rhodes part, copy it, paste it to the beginning
but then reverse it for an effect. Everytime I copy the a part of audio
I can't do anything to that created copy without effecting the original file and the rhodes file tail gets reversed as well as the copy.
This is very frustrating for me as that doesn't make much sense to me.
Back in my pro tools and Cubase days those interfaces automatically created
new files for any copied sections I believe and you could edit them independently.
So anyway, I hope someone on here has an answer for me.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Also, I hope they do add better audio editing handling in the next iteration
of Logic.
-FTIWL

Option/drag your audio region to the new track. At this point, you have a copy of the original, any destructive editing done to this copy, will, as you discovered, edit the original as well.
Select the copied region, and under the "mimi" audio Menu (from the Arrange page), select "Convert Regions To New Audio Files".
A navigation box will pop up asking you where this new audio file should reside, but if you had set the recording path to the song initially, the box should open up into your audio files folder for that song. Hit save...
Now you can edit freely on this new audio region, while the original remains in tact, and untouched.

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Message Edited by bram@tno on 08-08-2007 07:00 AM
Attachments:
DataPlugin Load Audio File.vi ‏46 KB
DataPlugin Write Audio File.vi ‏229 KB

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