Piano Roll Logic Question

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I like the "instrument tracks" in Pro Tools 7... They give you the ability to record MIDI data from my external synthesizer that can be played back as Midi & audio (without having to record the audio). Does Logic have tracks like that, or can I accomplish the same thing in their Piano Roll?

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In short: Yes.

Logic allows you to plug in MIDI devices such as keyboards, drum machines, MPDs, etc. and use them to create MIDI data on a MIDI track. You can assign software instruments to MIDI tracks so you can use a variety of synths, drum kits, keyboards, etc. with your MIDI devices (live or in post). Logic software instruments work much the same as any other DAW's software instruments. The piano roll can be used to draw in MIDI notes the will be played by the software instrument, to correct notes previously recorded on a software instrument track, or anything else you might find useful.

If you have access to a computer with GarageBand on it, you might want to test out some of the software instruments in GarageBand as they are very similar in function to Logic's software instruments.
 
Are their any tracks in Logic that allow you to play MIDI & audio at the same time (within one track) That's what Pro Tools... instrument track do.
 
I'm not sure how Pro Tools' instrument tracks work, but I can say this: In Logic there are three types of tracks. There's an "audio track", a "software instrument track", and a "MIDI track". An audio track records live inputs such as microphones and guitars. A software instrument track gets assigned to a virtual instrument patch that you can record/play with by using a MIDI keyboard. We'll forget about the MIDI track for now.

You can't record live audio on a software instrument track and you can't record software instruments on an audio track. You can output sound from both tracks, though, just the sound from an audio track will be recorded through a microphone and the sound on the software instrument track will be recorded virtually and all the processing is done inside the computer.

Maybe this video will help explain some things. You can watch the whole video if you'd like, or you can just skip to 3:25 where he starts explaining about software instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NLoM_X-sN4
 
Logic can do everything pro tools can do...just 10 times easier and more efficently.
 
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