Apple Logic Pro 7 - Manual (Page 570)

570 Chapter 16 Score Editor
Clicking on Factory Defaults resets all parameters to their default settings. However, if
you have a printer with high resolution, you should try to use smaller line thickness
settings (2, or maybe even 1). Smaller staves, in particular, look much better and more
professional that way. The other parameters’ settings are more a matter of personal
preference.
On the screen these changes are only visible at the highest zoom levels. To really be
able to judge the results, it is necessary to try some printouts with different settings.
Guitar Tablature
Guitar tablature is an alternative method of notating music for fretted string
instruments, especially for guitar and electric bass, but also for other fretted
instruments with four to six strings or courses of strings.
In this system, the horizontal lines represent the strings of the instrument. Notes are
always written on the line/string at which they are to be played. Instead of regular note
heads, the numbers of the frets are shown.
Logic converts notes automatically into tablature, if a Score Style is used whose Clef
parameter is set to one of these Tuning Sets. The exact characteristics of these Tuning
Sets are determined in the Guitar Tablature window.
How to open this window:
• Layout > Guitar Tablature
• Key command Settings: Guitar Tablature
• Double-click on the TAB clef, at the beginning of any staff that already uses tablature
in the score.
Here, twelve different Tuning Sets can be defined. Each of them corresponds to one
line in this window. The regular guitar and bass tunings are already included as defaults
(first line and last five lines), as are some of the more often used special tunings for
guitar.
For every Tuning Set, there are the following parameters (from left to right):
Name: can be changed in the text entry field that opens with a double-click on the
name field.
Strings: number of strings (four, five, or six).
Assign: the method Logic uses for automatically assigning notes to strings. (see below)
1 to 6: the pitches that the “open” strings are tuned to.
Other common parameters:
Font, Size, and Face for the display of the fret numbers.