Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 381)

Chapter 15 Score Editor 381
• For polyphonic, multi-staff Score Styles: configuration of brackets and bar lines that
connect the staves.
For every staff:
• Staff size
• Distance to the next (higher and lower) staves
• Number of independent (polyphonic) voices in the staff
• Clef
• Display transposition
• Key signature on/off
For every independent (polyphonic) voice:
• Automatic rest display on/off
• Stem direction of notes
• Tie direction
• Direction of N-tuplet brackets and numbers
• Beaming
• MIDI channel assignment for the voice and/or definition of a split point pitch—for
separation of the different voices.
• Note Color
Logic contains a number pre-defined Score Styles.
Score Styles do not affect the rhythmic display, unlike the parameters in the Display
Parameter box. Neither do they affect the horizontal distance (spacing) of notes (apart
from changes caused by different stave sizes). This is determined in Layout > Global
Format.
Score Styles are saved with the song file, allowing different Score Styles in different
songs. Hint: create some empty template songs with (among other things) the Score
Styles, and other score settings, that you would normally use as a basis for your work.
Assigning Score Styles
Each individual MIDI Region can be assigned a different Score Style in the Display
Parameter box. This enables you to quickly;
• create parts for transposing instruments.
• display the same MIDI Region at different sizes, for example—for printout of a full
score, and individual parts for the different instruments.
• change between different display forms in one staff. This would be done by cutting a
MIDI Region, and assigning different Score Styles to the resulting shorter Regions.
(This might be used to alternate between passages that are completely written out,
and improvised passages using only Beat Slashes and chord symbols, for example).