Messed up tracks in Logic

I spent hours working on a project in Logic. I saved the project and quit Logic. I came back an hour later, and the settings of every one of my instruments were completely messed up. I've tried reverting to other saved versions, but they are all messed up too. I have no idea what happened.

I'm assuming you're recording with some sort of soft synth (if not the drum kits that come with Logic).
If so, the proceedure is very simple. Record the MIDI onto the Audio Instrument track that contains your drum kit instrument. After you've recorded the MIDI, select Region>Demix>Demix by Note Pitch, and the MIDI will be split into separate tracks in the Arrange window. This will isolate the snare, kick, hats, etc). This is documented on page 113 of the Logic Express manual. Keep in mind that you might want to go back and MERGE the hats tracks, since open, closed, and pedal hats will go onto different tracks (despite being from the same physical instrument). Do this using Region > Merge > Regions, also on Page 113.
NOTE: Doing the above does NOT assign each of the tracks to a different instance of the soft drum kit. That is, you will NOT be able to put different effects on the different kit components in this way. To do this, you must make separate instances of your drum kit, and manually drag the split MIDI to the individual track; don't worry though, Logic is smart enough not to load multiple copies of the actual samples. To do this, simply create new instrument tracks for each element of your kit that you'd like to separate out, and manually drag the individual MIDI regions to the correct track.

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