Drag & Drop with Logic Pro X

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Well hallo there. It's me again. :D
Unfortunately my other posts haven't been answered yet. But anyway, continuing to play with RapidComposer and Logic Pro X I am just discovering another flaw.

Let's say I have created a nice synth patch on a track in Logic Pro X.
Now I want my great RapidComposer Phrase on that track.
When I drag and drop a midi file from RapidComposer onto this single track, I can see a sort region with notes in it. When I try to play them I can't hear anything. Now what happened?
Investigating further, I found out that what happened is that RapidComposer's drag & drop actually creates two regions everytime I drag & drop. Because, when I add a new track in Logic Pro X, I suddenly can see the region with the right content from RC on just that new track. And when I delete the empty region on the first track and move the region from the second track to the first track I can also hear the notes playing like I wanted it from the beginning.
BTW: The reason why I could see the notes in the first place, but not hear them is that Logic selected all two regions. But the actual content was only in the second region which was not visible (audible) before creating the second track.

Now I know hardly anyone here seems to be using Logic Pro with RapidComposer, but perhaps you can help me fix this strange behavior once again keeping me from having real fun with this nice piece of software.

Thank you so much in advance!!

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It should be mentioned however, that in RapidComposer I have only ONE track. Just in case. :wink:

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I am checking MIDI file exporting and drag-and-drop, hopefully I'll find the reason for this strange behavior soon.
Thank you for reporting this issue!
And thank you for your patience ;)
Attila

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RapidComposer creates 'Type 1' MIDI files which means there is always a tempo track that contains tempo changes, and separate tracks for the separate MIDI channels. This is what most software does. Other software, like Reaper is smart enough not to handle the tempo track (which is mandatory for type 1 MIDI files) as an instrument track, but Logic Pro X is not that smart.
However I found that when there was no 'copyright' text in the tempo track, Logic will not display it.
So it will work from the next beta version.

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