Apple Logic Pro 7 - Manual (Page 540)

540 Chapter 16 Score Editor
• Hint: these can be especially useful when used in combination with the Select Next/
Previous Event key commands, which allow you to move the selection from note to
note.
• Using the Voice Separation tool: this tool allows you to draw a separation line
between the notes, thereby assigning them to the different MIDI channels of the
Voices. Place the tool between the staves, and draw a line where you want to
separate the Voices, while holding down the mouse button. The following example
shows the resulting separation line. If you make a mistake, just move the mouse back
to the left a little bit (with the button still pressed). This erases the separation line to
the right of the tool. Then try it again.
The result of the procedure will look like this:
Note: The Voice Separation tool can only be used if MIDI channels are defined for each
of the Voices that you want to separate with it, since Logic has to know which MIDI
channels to assign to the notes.
Voice Assignment when Using Mouse Input
If you insert notes with the mouse into a multiple stave Score Style, these are assigned
automatically to the staff/Voice/channel into which they are placed. If that staff
contains several Voices (see below), the MIDI channel corresponds to the channel
setting in the Insert Defaults (but only if that particular channel is used by one of the
Voices of that staff ).
If you insert Symbols into multiple stave Score Styles, there is a Staff parameter in the
Event Parameter box for most of them. It determines which staff the symbol belongs to.
This is also relevant for the vert.pos setting of that symbol.