Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

hi all, i came across this list while searching clues as to how to set
up a split keyboard using two software instruments and an external
midi controller.

i found these steps below to be extremely helpful, but i am having a
problem.  The split sounds i am using are ESX24 samples on the lower
keys (below split point of F3) and an ES1 synth sound on the upper keys.

Following these steps i got a split, however, the pich/vibrato/sustain
sent from my midi controller only work on the lower keys, the ESX24,
and not on the ES1 sound.

I also tried to get a split working around the environment, by putting
two sounds in record enable in the arranger window, and restraining
their key range so the sounds don't overlap eacho ther.  my thinking
was that i could assign each pair of sounds to a midi channel.  the
problem with this setup is that all record enabled tracks seem to
respond to midi no matter what channel i assign them to receive, or
which channel my controller is sending.

i am using logic and a yamaha shs-10 as a controller to play live.  i
need a synth sound for each song, and i want to use samples on at
least half of the songs.  i need to be able to switch between these
split sounds on the fly.

can anyone help me understand 
1) why the vibrato/pitch/suistain isn;t working in the split outlined
in the steps below for both sounds?
2) why are all record enabled tracks responding to midi even when the
channel selected doesn't match what is assigned or transmitted?
or
3) is there an EASY way to creat a split keyboard in logic that i
haven't tried?

any help would be greatly appreciated.  i am not that good at fumbling
around in the environment, but if someone has a layer they can let me
try that would be awesome!

thanks!  great group!

-jason

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Gregory Anderson <glists@...> wrote:
>
> 1. Open the environment to the page with your 2 virtual instruments  
> on it.
> 2.  Create 2 new objects:  Instrument and Transformer
> 3. Cable the new instrument to the transformer
> 4.  Double click on the transformer and for MODE select "Condition  
> Splitter..."
> 5. Status = Note, Pitch >=Whatever split point you want
> 6.  Close transform window and connect the top transformer cable to  
> the high note v-inst. and the bottom one to the low-note VI.  When  
> you get a warning about already assigned a port, click REMOVE.
> 7.  In the arrange window, assign a track to the new instrument you  
> created and play on that track.
> 
> Done.
> 
> Gregory
>