Make multiple tracks in audio behave like midi regions

This may be a pretty simple tip but I hadn't seen it mentioned on the site anywhere; I hope it is of use to people who are relatively new to Logic or people like me who are looking for ways to clear up their workflow!

it should be useful for anyone using logic to write music that requires heavy editing of audio (for example dance or hip hop where you have sampled a classic break and chopped it up into hits, or anyone working with a drummer who cant keep time!)

Lets say you have taken a breakbeat and split it into kicks, snares and hats. Or you have spent ages chopping up a drum part and fixed the timing of your rather inept drummer.

Usually this means loading each of those sampled hits onto an individual audio track and process each one to get the beat sounding like you want - this is common practice in electronica and mimics the way a real kit would be recorded so the technique is the same from here on. It is often more flexible leaving the hits as audio for editing and processing, rather than dumping them into samplers

However you are left with lots of individual regions each lasting less than one beat - a real pain if you are copying the loop out to fit a track. You could bounce down as new audio files but this means any time you want to edit the pattern you have to edit the audio region again, bounce again etc. An alternative is to have endless copies of each sample playing throughout the whole track, which is messy / cluttered on screen.

The solution is to pack all of those drum tracks into a folder track. If you adjust the length of the folder to match your loop, you can copy and paste as if it were a midi region, and any time you want to edit the loop you can just jump in and move the hits around, exactly like you would a midi region with the piano roll.

This would work equally well for regions where you might have lots of samples of instruments playing separate parts of a melodic sequence, such as the complex, processed midrange that you get over the subbass in dubstep and drum & bass.