Up on the hill

Thanks for the reply. So it sounds like it is normal for multiple channel strips to be created for built in plug ins associated with the drum tracks. Are there any downsides to using GB instead of Logic, such as getting to the final mixed down MP3?

Apologies in advance if this has been answered somewhere else but I couldn't find it. I'm new to recording and Logic and just bought Dave's 10.4 book to get the lay of the land. Under pressure to record a song for a June 5th wedding and concerned with the automatic creation of channel strips in the mixer. So far I've only created two software drum tracks but that has resulted in the automatic creation of multiple channel strips in the mixer, including buses, and I have no idea of their purpose. Is this normal - the creation of the strips that is, not the fact that I have no idea what they are? I'm concerned that when it actually comes time to mix there will be so many strips that the task will be quite difficult and would feel better if the mixer strips only reflected the tracks but maybe that concern is unwarrented?