OK Finally got it working BUT!

Question

well my replacment xskey arrived (hooray!) so now im working with logic finally, i have a few questions tho...
1. how do i set logic to open a new project with the standard 8 audio tracks and 8 audio inst tracks? atm mines only coming up with 4 audio, and it has 8 audio inst but it go's down 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4.
2. how do u get the keyboard to work like as a midi keyboard (ive heard theres a way)
and 3. how do u assign audio channels small pictures of the instrement at the left hand side?
cheers!
james

Answer 1

Check out the manual for "Autoload" -- that's the name of the song file that's automatically loaded each time you start Logic or create a new file. You may want to look at some of the Peachpit books for walking you through creating this file to match your studio and workflow.
Use Caps Lock to bring up a little keyboard on the screen that you can play with your computer keyboard.
To change a track's icon, make sure you can see the track's info in the Arrange window. First select the track you want to work with. Pressing P toggles the properties column on the left. You may have to open up one of the areas using the little drop-down triangle thing, but you'll see an icon for the track in the properties area. Click and hold it to bring up a list of icons. You can create your own icons in the png format. Read the manual if you want to add your own images to Logic's standard icons.