Way to do THIS? Record MIDI instrument as AUDIO?

I know freeze makes an audio file but it would be cool if there where a visible pool to see the bounced audio so you can mangle it more if creating soundscapes and such.
Is there a way to record what you here (via instrument for example) via a BUS onto an AUDIO track?
Thanks!

Hitbirdparis, just can you detail the way to
set "soundflower" cause I could not make it work in
LOGIC to record audioinstruments to audio, do I have
to select in "hardware and audio driver"?
Thanks for your help
sure.. it can be a little crytpic to set up in the first instance, but it works just fine.
you need to obviously download and install soundflower. then, in audio/midi setup, you must create an aggregate audio device, and in this device you include whatever audio interface you have, built in audio if you like, and soundflower. now, in logic you have to choose the aggregate audio device as your audio interface, in audio hardware/drivers.
then, at least in my case, the rest was a little bit of guesswork. I created an audio instrument and made some midi recording on it, and put it in a loop so it was playing something. then I created an audio track, turned off it's output (by selected no output on its fader strip) just to avoid any possible feedback loops. I record armed this track, and then I just started selecting different input channels one after the other until lo and behold, I saw audio levels coming in that was the output coming from that audio instrument track. you also may need to change the output channel on that particular audio instrument track till you find the right one that goes to soundflower, which will then come back into logic on the input channel that comes out of soundflower.
audio/midi setup isn't the most helpful thing in all of this because it doesn't show you a table of what your i/o channels actually are.. but once you poke around and try the channels you'll eventually find the right ones. in my case, for some reason I have had to launch the soundflower bed application to get the audio to start working, not sure why. so if you have no luck, you can try this also.
once it's all set up, it works like a charm.
of course, the other option, being the noisegate plug in sidechain trick, also works perfectly too.
still, I look forward to a total overhaul of OSX core audio and logic so that this stuff can be set up without needing tricks and 3rd party add ons.. and while they're at it, destructive plug in processing directly on audio regions in the arrange would be a nice thing to have too.
I've already written to logic feedback to request these things, if you like you could add your voice to the requests.. the more the merrier..
http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html

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