Send MIDI Audio to Audio Track

Here's what im trying to do...
i record some drums using Battery 3, in a INSTRUMENT track using my midi keyboard...
sweet, now in the EDIT window i can see my nice little midi tracks there and yes playing my drums i've just played on my MIDI keys.
what im trying to do, is send what i hear coming from the MIDI/INSTRUMENT channel, to an AUDIO TRACK so that i can record the drums back into the MIX view, as if i were recording LIVE drums
this would be awesome.
so basically treating it like an MPC, record the drums on MPC then send to an audio track in LOGIC so i can track all instruments out.
can THIS BE DONE!
thanks in advance!

You can mix virtual instrument too into the MIX view!
If you prefer an audio file then solo the Batery track(s) and bounce it to disk selecting an audio format among SDII, WAV or AIFF and enable the checkbox Add to audio window.
cheers
rob
Power Mac G4/533 PowerBook 12 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Delete the user preferences
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What?...
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Provide a Logic feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html!
THIS IS A LOGIC 8 BUG!!! BIGGEST SERIOUS BUG!
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Thank you so much for remember me this..
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I wll try this--but I still am unclear on how to do what the Manual says is possible: select clips on another track that WILL be moved, if I so desire, so as to remain synched to the main Video track.
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yeloop wrote:
Is this something new for Logic 9?
I don't know, I have never used external MIDI with Logic (8 or 9) - but think it is new, yes.
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regards, Erik.
regards, Erik.

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