Manipulating Overlapping MIDI Regions

Hi - I've been playing with Logic 9 and am trying to figure out how overlapping MIDI regions are handled/managed.
I started by recording a 2 bar kick pattern. Next, I wanted to "overdub" (i.e. record onto the same track without losing the kick) a snare part and a hi-hat part. I set up Cycle record for the two bar region and set my recording prefs to "merge only in cycle record".
When I record the snare part it appears to create a new region that sits "over" the kick part. i.e. if I select the snare region and delete it the kick region is revealed. Same thing happens when I record another part (hi-hat). Also, in the Arrange and Piano Roll windows, the region only displays the notes of the last recorded part.
Couple of questions:
1) how do I manage all three of the regions as one? i.e. if I want to edit the MIDI notes of the kick drum in the Piano Roll window I can't. It only shows me the last part that I recorded.
2) I discovered the Merge command but is there a way to have parts automatically merged with the first part that was recorded?
Thanks in advance!

Hi
This one is a bit 'peculiar':
Assuming that you have recorded a part, stopped and subsequently you wish to record/overdub in cycle mode, you need to set the Recording Settings to 'Merge with Selected Region' to successfully merge as you cycle record.
Merge in Cycle will only merge passes recorded in that cycle, not pre-existing regions.
HTH
CCT

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