Playback of regions on one track...can I choose?

Question

After tracking into Logic, I often have multiple takes (regions) on one track. During the editing process I find the playback of multiple regions in one track quite confusing.
If all regions are unmuted, Logic usually plays the region that's been recorded most recently. Occasionally it doesn't, it just picks one in the middle. I'm sure there's a rhyme and reason to this but I can't figure it out. The manual seems to offer no help on the subject...
My question is - In a track with multiple regions recorded in the same time frame, is there a way for me to choose which regions I want to hear on play back?
My workaround has been to mute all the regions I don't want to hear (very time consuming!) or to cut and paste regions into one and crossfade edit them together. This usually works but say I have one region I'm using for the whole song, and I want to hear an overdubbed region for each chorus, the only way to do it is to cut up the main recording and splice in the choruses or to cut and mute the choruses I don't need.
This whole process would be soooo much easier if I could just make Logic realize that I want certain regions played at certain times. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Cheers
Powermac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   Logic Pro 7.1, Fireface 800
Powermac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   Logic Pro 7.1, Fireface 800

Answer 1

"Takes" is a valid recording term, it's just not a valid Logic concept - in other words, there is no such thing as a "take" in Logic.
Recording takes is a standard term. But looking for the "Next Take" keyboard shortcut is fruitless, as "take" is not any actual concept in Logic.
As far as the multitple tracks to one object, it's great for vocal comps. Let's say you have your vocal channel, with a bunch of plugins on it, compression, EQ, maybe reverb etc.
You can track in cycle mode, with each cycle pass putting the next take (see?) onto a new track, but still playing back through the vocal channel.
This way you can mute the channel, or mute/playback each different pass through, quickly comp a vocal from the different tracks and combine sections of them into your final comp, without having to select between different playlists - everything is visible and accessible on the arrange page, and you don't have to have multiple channels with the same plugins on, or resort to a bus.
There are a whole variety of positive workflow issues, which I'm not going to retype here - if these workflow issues don't suit you and you want to work in a different way, that's fine. For me, I absolutely love it and can comp in Logic quicker than any other app - in fact I'm usually (partially) comping on the fly, while recording, when the situation allows it...