Native B4 with Logic Pro question

Question

Hi !
I'm using Native B4 with an M-Audio Keystation 88es.
My question is... is there any way I can channel a ride cymbal to play along with the B4 in the lower keyboard split? (In other words I have one keyboard. I would be walking lower manual bass in my left hand, but a ride would be playing along with it, similar to a bass/ride split on a piano.)
Can someone explain this step by step or refer me to the page in the manual?
Thx !

Answer 1

The environment is a playpen for this kind of stuff - it's MIDI processing facilities beat anything else out there.
In the environment, create a new instrument - call it "Split". Assign it to the current track in the arrange page by clicking on it with the "MIDI Thru" tool (or just select it on an arrange track in the usual way).
This instrument is the instrument that we play. Now, create two new instruments (called "left" and "right"), and cable the "Split" instrument to the "left" one. As second output triangle will appear on "Split", so cable the second output to the "right" instrument. This way, the notes you play get sent to both of these two new instruments.
"Left" is going to be our left keyboard split. Adjust the low note and high note values to cover the keyboard range you want the organ to cover.
Similarly, adjust the note range of "Right" so it's lowest note starts at the highest note set on "Left".
Lastly, cable the output of "Left" to the audio instrument holding your organ, and the output of "Right" to your drum thing. You can adjust the transpose values on either of "Left" and "Right" to play the desired range.
You've just used the environment to set up a simple keyboard split across two virtual instruments.
In the same way, you can set up multi-keyboard splits, layers with crossfading, velocity splits and many other cool stuff across multiple instruments.