Apple Logic Pro 9 - Manual (Page 239)

Assigning Tracks in the Arrange Area
In general, you create new tracks when you want to record or play back new regions.
Corresponding channel strips are automatically created in the Mixer.
In some situations, however, you may want to reassign an existing track to a different
channel strip; for example, reassigning the output of a software instrument track to
another instrument channel strip. The MIDI regions on the track will be played back
through the inserted software instrument plug-in of the second channel strip.
To reassign a track to a specific channel strip
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Control-click (or right-click) the track icon or name, then choose the destination for the
track in the hierarchical Reassign Track shortcut menu.
• If you want to use a track for audio region recording or playback, choose a Mixer >
Audio channel strip as the track destination.
• If you want to use a track for MIDI region recording or playback (via a software
instrument), choose a Mixer > Software Instrument channel strip as the track destination.
• If you want to use a track for MIDI region recording or playback (via a MIDI sound
generator), choose a MIDI Instr. > Model/Instrument name channel strip as the track
destination.
To globally reassign multiple tracks that share a channel strip destination
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Hold down the Option key when reassigning a track channel strip, then confirm the dialog
by clicking the Reassign All Tracks button.
The new track destination (reassigned channel strip) will be used for every track that
shared the original track destination in the current project (including tracks in folders).
As an example:
• Tracks 1 to 4 are assigned to instrument channel strip 6.
• You use the Option key to reassign one of these tracks to instrument channel strip 15.
• Tracks 1 to 4 are reassigned to instrument channel strip 15.
239 Chapter 9 Working with Tracks