Recording extra bits into MIDI regions DRIVES ME MAD - please help!

Question

I hate Logic sometimes. (Logic Pro 8)
I record a simple part (region) using an AU plugin - a basic beat let's say. I play it in with a keyboard.
It's a 2 bar region and I then want to add a cymbal into the region while in 'piano roll' view (so I can see where to add it) - so I hit record and 1) my view of what's already been recorded goes blank and 2) Logic creates a NEW region!
Is there not a way that when in Piano Roll view - if you want to record extra MIDI stuff into a region - you can start recording and can still see what you already recorded in that region, and for your new recording to AUTOMATICALLY merge in with the existing region?
This drives me crazy and i've never figured it out - and it really stands in the way of me actuallly getting anywhere with Logic. I just want a region to stay as ONE region which I can keep adding bits to without creating loads of regions and I'd really like to be able to SEE what's already there as I add bits!
Can anyone help pls?

Answer 1

Florence wrote:
thanks a lot guys - BUT is there also a way for me to see the MIDI notes i record AS I actually play them in? (rather than when the looped area cycles round again) This happens in Reason and most other music apps - just annoys me it doesn't in Logic!
Don't know why that doesn't happen, I imagine it's the way Logic holds incoming MIDI data in a buffer instead of committing to a note value, but I don't know. Just tried the same thing in OEM version of CubaseLE4 and played notes became visible in real time.
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