Splitting midi tracks?

I start by creating a new project and a single software track
I then choose a drum kit from the media library
with the Caps Lock on I hit Record and bash out some different drums on my computer keyboard.
With the track and region selected I choose Midi / Separate Midi Events / By Note Pitch
and the midi notes separate on to different tracks
But they still behave like one track
If I click Solo or Mute they all highlight.
When I open the mixer there is only one channel strip
Not ten separate channel strips
What am I doing wrong?
thanks
Pete

Hi
Peter Whitaker wrote:
With the track and region selected I choose Midi / Separate Midi Events / By Note Pitch
and the midi notes separate on to different tracks
But they still behave like one track
If I click Solo or Mute they all highlight.
When I open the mixer there is only one channel strip
Not ten separate channel strips
What am I doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong here: this is how Logic works when you do a "split by note pitch". The result will be multiple Arrange tracks that all 'talk' to the same Instrument channel.
If you need to make them truly independent, you may have a couple of choices:
Create some new duplicate tracks and move the regions to those
or (maybe)
Use multi-output Instrument Channels and Output Aux channels to get the 'separation' you need.
CCT

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