Thanks for reading my long story. I suppose when it comes to writing drum parts, I subscribe to the philosophy that the drum kit is a reflection of the rest of the arrangement, at least for now. One thing that really made a difference for me was buying a pair of drum sticks and pretending my phone book was a snare drum. Somehow it made my mind work differently. The pattern programming took on an important new meaning.
I have succeeded in getting Beat Designer to send parts of its patterns to specific tracks, the targets being both Groove Agent and not. This involved filtering based on note values using the transformer on MIDI sends from a MIDI track with a Beat Designer insert. The transformer programs like the logic editor, so it’s easy to divide the notes space among the sends. I still don’t know how this workflow concept will pan out, but at least the technical issues are under control.