Ultrabeat continues to play inspite of no reigon being there..

OMG - a female on the board. Welcome - you are as rare as hens' teeth! I've just interviewed 24 applicants for places on next years Creative Music Tech degree course. Male: 24; Female: 0. Try employing positive discrimination on those statistics.

Back to Ultrabeat. My first thought is that you have some entries in Ultrabeat's sequencer. It's independent of the Logic regions and will run whether or not there are any MIDI notes coming in from a track. That's in your category of blindingly obvious so you may already have seen that.

Use Ultrabeat for your signature patterns & loops. Keep them in Ultrabeat and they're available for you to use regularly. It's (marginally) harder to keep regularly used patterns in MIDI files sicne they don't have the associated kit soudns with them.

The point is that Ultrbeat's sequencer and Logic's arrange window are independent. You can drag sequences from UB to the arrange window if you want to manipulate them but loading in a compelte Ultrabeat set brings with it both drum sounds and patterns.

It's a big topic - probably too big for a forum entry. Talk your teaching staff into buying the following:

http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/ultrabeat

Pete

Hi TEG
Check the Ultrabeat internal sequencer. It's like RMX or BFD. You can drag MIDI to arrange window of Logic to play in Logic's sequencer. But you have to clear - or stop - the internal sequencer of your plug in (in this case UltraBeat). It will keep playing otherwise.
Also ... with BFD it will play from both arrange and internal plug in sequencer and cause phase cancellation.
Cheers
D, Ottawa

there will be a generic 'on/off' symbol (same as the power button on your computer) on a button in the bottom left of ultrabeat just next to where you drag the loop from, turn that off, when you press play on logic's transport (or any other 'play' control) ultrabeat's internal sequencer seems to run too.