Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 396)

396 Chapter 15 Score Editor
Copying Voices or Staves
Copying Voices or Staves Into Other Score Styles
The Copy and Paste commands (Edit menu or key commands) allow you to transfer one
(or several) voices and/or staves, inclusive of their parameters, into other Score Styles.
Select the Voices you want to copy, by dragging the mouse vertically in the margin
column to the left of the stave numbers. The selection will be indicated by a dark grey
vertical beam. Now, select Edit > Copy (X). Switch to the target Score Style that you
want to paste these voices into (this also works between different songs). Finally, set
the Insert mark (>) and select Edit > Paste (X). Note that if a Voice is selected in the
destination Score Style (indicated by a black beam in the left column), it will be
replaced by the pasted voices.
Deleting Voices in a Score Style
To delete Voices or staves from a Score Style, select them (dark grey beam, see above)
and press Backspace, or select Edit > Clear.
Drum Notation With Mapped Score Styles
Nowadays, most MIDI instruments contain a variety of drum and percussion sounds.
Each MIDI note usually triggers a different sound. If a MIDI Region containing a drum
part is displayed with a regular Score Style, you’ll see notes with no apparent
relationships (except MIDI notes triggering the corresponding sounds) to the sounds
represented by them.
If you want to notate these musically meaningless pitches as a readable drum part—
which uses special percussion note heads—you should use Mapped Instruments and
Mapped Score Styles.
The Basics of Drum Notation With Logic
You need to use both a Mapped Instrument as a Track Instrument, and a Mapped Score
Style, for drum notation to be displayed properly. We’ll start with the Mapped
Instrument.
Open an Environment window, create a new Mapped Instrument (see “Mapped
Instrument” on page 170), and double-click its icon.
You will see the Drum Map Editor for the instrument. The default settings correspond to
the General MIDI drum note assignments, but they can be edited.
In the column to the far right, there are three parameters relevant to notation:
Head
Determines the shape of the note head for notes triggered by this particular pitch. You
can choose the shape from the pull-down menu, by click-holding on any of the note
heads displayed here.