Logic Pro Best way to manage a two-channel MIDI instrument?

[DouglasScott]

I am creating a piece in Logic which has a Cello instrument. Because the instrumental sets available with Logic do not have a Cello with both bowed and pizzicato articulations, I have to use 2 tracks and two instruments to represent the "full" cello. The primary problem is: What do I do when I want to generate a score for this piece? Can I represent two tracks as a single notated instrument? I understand merging, but wouldn't that be a one-way operation? I would not be able to easily un-merge in the event that I needed to do more editing of the Logic sequence, right? (Assuming there were other intermediate edits in the history as well). Are there any other options? This cannot be a rare problem.

Thanks!

 

[wonshu]

One of our jobs is to prepare music for our orchestrator who uses Finale (before export: fixing note length, merging regions, quantizing correctly, etc...). I'm saying this just to make it clear that we all have the problem that producing music involves a lot of "useless" work.

In your case I would treat it the same way - have one project file purely to produce the pre-production version of the music that works as audio. When you're done save as a different version adding [Score v01] or something to the name in order to make it work as a score. If you need to change the music, go back to the original piece, make the changes, then import only those tracks into your score piece and keep preparing the score.