Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 689)

Chapter 20 View and edit music notation 689
If a staff style consists of more than two staffs, the brackets and bar lines can be set to connect
only certain parts of the overall staff style—they can be interrupted in between staffs. If you want
to delete any connections, grab the symbol at its end (bottom), and drag it up, until it disappears.
The voices value in the style overview is determined by the number of voices in the staff style.
This can be changed in the Voice parameters section, but not in the style overview.
Edit staff, voice, and assign parameters for a staff style
After you set the number of voices and staffs in a staff style, you can edit the Staff and Voice
parameters for the selected staff style in the lower part of the Staff Style window, and edit Assign
parameters for each voice in a staff style. When you change a staff style, all tracks using that staff
style are affected.
You can edit the following Staff, Voice, and Assign parameters in the Staff Style window:
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For all staffs: Choose the clef, show or hide the key signature, set the distance to the next
(higher and lower) staffs, set the staff size, set the number of voices in the staff, and set the
display transposition.
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For polyphonic, multiple staff styles: Edit the configuration of brackets and bar lines that
connect the staffs.
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For each voice: Control the display of rests, stem direction, tie direction, direction of N-tuplet
brackets and numbers, beaming, note color, and note head type.
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Assign parameters for each voice: Set the MIDI channel assignment and definition of a split
point pitch, for separation of the different voices.
Edit Staff parameters for the selected staff style
In the Staff section of the Staff Style window, do any of the following:
m Change the clef: Choose a clef from the Clef pop-up menu. In addition to the standard clefs, there
are some additional options:
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Drum.0 to Drum.8: Staffs with 0 to 8 lines and a neutral percussion clef. The relationship of
MIDI note pitches to the top line of all staffs corresponds to the top line in a regular bass clef
(A2). No accidentals are displayed in these drum staffs. Drum.0 also omits any ledger lines.
These clefs are often used in mapped drum styles, where the vertical position of a note on the
staff doesn’t correspond to pitch, but is determined by different drum map parameters. See
Use drum notation with mapped staff styles on page 697 for more information on mapped
drum styles.
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no clef.0 to no clef.8: Like the Drum.0 to Drum.8 staffs, but without a clef.
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TAB Guitar and TAB Bass: Twelve different options for displaying notes as guitar or bass
tablature. Tablature tuning sets are defined and edited in the Tablature window (Layout >
Guitar Tablature).
m Show or hide the key signatureA: Select the Key checkbox for the staff.
When the Key checkbox is unselected, the staff is displayed without a key signature. Accidentals
are placed directly beside all affected notes. This can be used, for example, for transposed French
horn parts, which are sometimes written without a key signature.
m Change the distance to adjacent staffs: Drag the upper and lower space values up or down. The
upper value controls the space above staffs, and the lower value controls the space below staffs.
For the top and bottom staffs in a full score, this controls the page margins.