Multi-Outs with Ultrabeat problem

Question

I'm new to Logic, but I have an instance of Ultrabeat set up with all the drums properly routed to different Auxilliary channels. They respond correctly when triggered from my midi keyboard. I created a midi clip on the Main track, double clicked it and went into the piano roll to do some programming. The problem: If I click in a note, it plays correctly. If I click on the piano roll key for that note, it sounds right. If I press play, the same notes will play the sound from the key just beneath it. It also won't start playback immediately. You don't hear anything for the first 3 or 4 notes in the piano roll during playback. Can anyone shed some light on this. I've been trying to make sense out of Logic's way of dealing with multi-outs for a few days and it seems like the implementation is just very wrong. I'm starting to feel like I'm gonna have to do drumming elsewhere then import it into Logic. Would be a shame since ultrabeat is a very good sounding drum synth.

Answer 1

No I didn't look at "environments" in general at all until today. I'd honestly bought Logic with the hopes that I'd never have to touch an environment, but that's not correct. Today I dug into understanding environments and while I don't know a lot, I do understand the concept. Simply put, you can't have anything in a song file that hasn't been pre-configured in the environment. That explains a great deal about Logic and how it's a world apart from Cubase, what I've been using for years.
The piano roll thing was a freaky glitch that corrected itself when I closed and reopened the file. But I'm glad that you confirmed the latency thing with these plugins. Logic is so complicated that when things don't behave as expected, I may never look in the right place for the right answer.
I've been literally practicing setting up multi-outs on Ultrabeat and EXS24 for hours today. What a nightmare. This is something that I normally did on the fly in any song file, but in Logic, these things definately need to be pre-configured or the distraction is much too great. The great thing about Logic though is that I find that I'm doing very little mixing as I go along because everything sounds so good right from the start. Trying to make sound sit properly in a mix, or just getting them to sound "good" was the thing that normally distracted me. Logic solves that problem, but I'm gonna have to spend a great deal of time poking around Logic before I can be truly productive with it. But when it's all set up and ready, I think I will begin to rule the world.