Routing MIDI data out of Ultrabeat

Hello
Can anyone please tell me if MIDI data can be routed out of Ultrabeat, so that its sequencer can be used to control cells in Battery 3, for instance. I'm a novice in the Environment and I haven't been able to find anyway of doing this. I know about dragging Ultrabeat patterns onto Arrange tracks to be used by other instruments but its not quite the same, obviously.
If it can't be done, I wonder if its the sort of feature that Apple might include in a future update. It seems to me that to combine the sequencer functions of Ultrabeat with the advanced sample-editing functions of Battery would address the limitations of each instrument and create an ideal system for step-sequencing drums. I can't be the first person to have thought of this but I haven't been able to find anything out about it so far. I would be grateful for any advice.
William

Nope.
AU plugins, including Logic's own instruments, cannot output any MIDI data at all - the AU spec doesn't currently support this.
The only thing you can do is export out the patterns into arrange regions, then reassign. But you can't use Ultrabeat's sequencer to trigger another instrument live.

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