Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 695)

Chapter 20 View and edit music notation 695
Add notes to a polyphonic staff style
You can “explode” polyphonic parts, displaying all voices on separate staffs, regardless of staff
style settings. (Other voice parameters remain valid.) This makes it easier to add notes using
the pointer.
If you add a note to a staff style that uses MIDI channels for voice separation, it’s automatically
assigned the corresponding MIDI channel (of the staff that you add the note to). When you’re
finished adding notes, turn off the Explode Polyphony setting so all voices are displayed correctly
in one staff.
If you add notes to a polyphonic staff without turning on the Explode Polyphony setting, the
notes are assigned the MIDI channel set in the Insert Defaults of the Event inspector (but only if
that channel is used by one of the voices in the staff).
Display polyphonic parts on separate staffs
m Choose View > Explode Polyphony from the Score Editor menu bar (or use the corresponding
key command).
Change the staff assignment of score symbols
In addition to notes, most other score symbols can be assigned to a particular staff in a multiple-
staff staff style. The Event inspector includes a Staff parameter where you can set the staff for
these symbols.
Change the staff for a score symbol
1 Select the symbol in the score.
You might need to use the Layout tool to select the symbol.
2 In the Event inspector, drag the Staff number up or down to change the staff for the
selected symbol.
Beam notes across staffs
Music for keyboard instruments, and other instruments notated on multiple staffs, can contain
passages where notes on different staffs (played by the left and right hand, for example) are
connected with a beam, to clarify that the musical phrase continues across the staffs.
In the Score Editor, only notes belonging to the same voice can be connected with beams. By
default, notes of the same voice are normally all displayed on the same staff. Using the Score
Editor’s Staff Assignment commands, you can display notes of the same voice on different staffs.
For example, the following image depicts a piano passage using the Piano staff style featuring
two MIDI channels (1 and 2). The notes in the upper staff belong to voice one (MIDI channel 1).
The notes in the lower staff belong to voice two (MIDI channel 2).
Using the Voice/Staff Assignment commands in the Score Editor’s Functions menu, you can place
the right-hand notes falling below middle C in the bass staff, but maintain the beaming.