Why so?

It's possible. Perhaps I'll cover it in a later more advanced lesson. You're not the first one to ask about that. I need to actually buy some more external synths to make that tutorial happen. I pretty much use all software synths these days, I only have 1 external hardware synth and I haven't used it in years.

@igorvashkov8821. Did you ever figure out what you problem was here? I am experiencing the same thing. It was working find for a little while and then I got that same thing you got with just a small region and a couple of notes jumbled up on each other. Please let me know if you figured it out. Thanks.

It's not likely that you would actually want to separate your recorded audio files from your project. That will cause all sorts of issues. I would just create a Logic project, put it on an external drive, and work from the external drive. As long as the external drive is an SSD, you should be fine. Even slower mechanical drives should be able to record audio in realtime without any issues, you might run into issues when mixing and working with plugins though with a mechanical drive.

That's a really great question. I'm not 100% sure. I do know there is a limit, and I think it has to do with the total number of MIDI events in the capture recording. As a test I just sat here and jammed for a couple minutes (roughly 50 bars) and it captured everything. 1169 Events shown in the event list. All notes and sustain pedal. However, if you start using other CC's like Mod Wheel, Faders, or even worse the Pitch Bend, it seems to dramatically shorten the length of the capture recording, because of the extra events present for each CC or pitch bend position data. It's hard to know too, because the event list only counts the pitch bend or CCs as a single event, not each individual position event. For example I played for about a minute, and used some pitch bend and mod wheel, and it only captured the last 8 bars. So I'd be careful anytime you use pitch bend for sure.

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Thanks for the answer! 1169 events recorded in the first test, and then only the last 8 bars with BP & Mod wheel.. Hm. I think I'll do some testing myself, now that I know this exists ;) Thanks again for the video!

Unfortunately no. Once you close Logic the MIDI is cleared from RAM and you can't get it back. Basically if you play on one track, move over to another track, arm that track, and play some more, it will forgot the MIDI you played on the previous track.

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Actually, I did figure out to play on another track. Thanks again!