Apple Logic Pro 7 - Manual (Page 547)

Chapter 16 Score Editor 547
Rel. Pos.
This parameter assigns the note to a line in the staff. It defines the note’s position in
relation to the top line of the staff. Integer values will make the note fall onto a line,
fractional values result in a note position between two lines. (The measurement unit of
this parameter is the distance of one staff line to the next)
This position parameter can be set individually for each MIDI note. In the Score Style
window, the positions can also be influenced, but only for all notes of a particular Drum
Group together.
These options allow you to have two different MIDI notes (i.e. different bass drum
sounds) displayed in the same way in the score, or on the same line, but with different
note heads.
Different Drum Maps within the same Song
If you are using various MIDI instruments with different drum assignments, you can
create a separate Drum Map (in the Drum Map Editor) for each instrument. The list of
Drum Groups however, is the same for all instruments in a song. This enables you to
display different drum tracks with the same Mapped Score Style. All Snare Drums, for
example, will be displayed in the same way. If you don’t want this, just create additional
drum groups like Kick2, Snare2, and so on and create a second Mapped Score Style for
the display of these Drum Groups.
Mapped Score Styles
Take a look at the default Mapped Score Style in the Score Style window: You can
select the default one via the pull-down menu on the left.
• To the left side (Staff ), everything is identical to non-mapped Score Styles (with the
exception of the missing Transpose and Key parameters, which wouldn’t make sense
here). Choose a drum clef in the Clef column.
• Below Voice (in the top header line), there is a separate Voice column, where the
different Voices are numbered automatically. The Score Style in the example above
contains one staff with two independent Voices.
• The hierarchy Staves-Voices-Drum Groups, goes from left to right, and is shown by
horizontal lines, which indicate the borders between these elements: each Drum
Group belongs to the Voice at the same horizontal position. The Pos. parameter
affects the vertical positioning of all notes of the corresponding Drum Group. The
value shown here is an offset, which is added/subtracted to the relative positions
defined for the individual notes in the Drum-Map-Editor.