REALLY Need Help Here...

Question

I think I'm going to lose my mind. I'm new to Logic 7, and I can't seem to consisently create new tracks without something bizzarre happening.
I went to the Environment to create a new stereo Aux for routing some tracks to. I said "Create New Audio Object." I tried to make out from the pop up list of AUXes used which was new and available, and chose it. In order to make it show up in the Arrange Window, and I suppose therefore the MIXER window, I Command clicked it. Now it REPLACES whatever track in the ARRANGE window was highlighted. And you can't seem deselect all tracks so nothing is highlighted in the arrange. So this new Audio Object, upon trying to get it to show up, REPLACES tracks. So my audio acoustic guitar track is now the new AUX. Oops. REVERT TO SAVED.
Help. This track creation thing is just nutty. Even the manual says to use CREATE NEW TRACK, and doesn't tell you that in the ARRANGE WINDOW this results in a COPY OF THE ABOVE TRACK. Geez. Insane.
So how do create an AUX in the Environment, make it show up in the mixer and or arrange, and NOT have it replace an existing track in the arrange?
Thanks so much
Tom

Answer 1

Thanks Donald.
Boy, you know, the most dependable way I have found to do it so it always works is...
What you say. I have 48 audio tracks in my autoload environment. I just go to arrange (when I need audio tracks, not instrument tracks) and add a bunch of tracks. Then I do your trick....I drag the audio tracks from the environment over the arrange window and everything is happy.
This solved a nightmare I had tonight. I was importing audio, and therefore need audio tracks. I decided to start SLOWLY, and created ONE audio track in the arrange window. I assigned to TRACK 1. Then dragged a file from the audio window into the arrange and placed it. I then named it immediately (Create Track Name). I kept doing that for about 28 tracks. When I was done, it was a mess. Things that I had named BASS were playing floor toms, etc. I would rename the floor tom track to Floor Tom, then look up, and the actual bass track changed its name to Floor Tom as well. Oh geez. I just deleted everything, and dragged the audio tracks from the Environment as I said, and finally got what I needed.
Some of this is me, I know, but there are honestly some serious bugs in this program. I had two guitar tracks playing just fine, and after switching windowsets around all of a sudden they were gone. I mean, NOT PLAYING. I went to the Environment to find them. Still Gone. Like they VANISHED from the program. I finally just reimported their audio.
It's like wrestling with a big polar bear, this Logic;)
Thanks for all your help. Let's hope Apple....king of the easy interface, gets this program in shape in the next century....;)
Tom