Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 423)

Chapter 15 Score Editor 423
Color
Layout > Colors opens the color palette for the currently active song:
These color palettes are used by different coloring modes. Clicking on any color opens
the standard color editing window, allowing this particular color to be changed.
Colors are saved with the song, and can be different in each song. They can be
imported from any other song via Options > Import Settings > Score Settings.
There are three palettes, and some additional options in this window:
• Pitch Colors: Each note of the octave is assigned a color, they are arranged like piano
keys. Diatonic/Chromatic determines whether there are twelve or seven different
colors.
• Velocity Colors: These eight colors are applied in accordance with the MIDI velocity of
notes, from left (minimum) to right (maximum).
• User Palette: These colors can be freely edited and named, using the text entry boxes
beside them. These names are displayed as color options in different color selection
menus (Score Styles (see “Basics” on page 380), Note Attributes (see “Note Attributes”
on page 398)).
• Note Color Options: These options determine whether accidentals, dots, stems, and
beams are displayed in color (according to their note associations), or in black. Rests
refer to user rests, which are mainly used in polyphonic Score Styles.
Score Preferences
The Score Preference settings are global settings, which are saved when you quit Logic,
and are effective for all song files. They can, however, be changed at any time, with an
immediate effect on all open songs.
You can open the Score Preferences via:
• Local Score menu—Options > Preferences > Score Preferences…
• Global menu—Logic Menu > Preferences > Score Preferences…
• Key command Score Preferences
• Directly from one of the other pages in the Preferences window, via the pull-down
menu.
Dashed Song Position Line
Determines if the Song Position Line in the Score Editor window is displayed as a solid
line, or as a dashed line.