Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 712)

Chapter 20 View and edit music notation 712
Customize the Score Editor
Choose a color mode
The settings in the Score Editor’s View > Colors menu determine the color mode for the active
Score Editor window. These settings have priority over all other color settings.
Choose the color mode for the Score Editor
m Choose one of the following from the View > Colors submenu in the Score Editor menu bar:
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Normal: Colors are assigned in accordance with the color settings in staff styles and note
attributes. As long as these settings haven’t been changed in new projects, the result is a
regular black-and-white printout, and black notes on a yellow background onscreen.
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Show Pitch: Applies colors in accordance with note pitches. The colors of notes can be edited
in the Functions > Note Attributes > Colors window. This window also allows you to determine
whether notes with accidentals match the color of those without accidentals, or if each note in
the chromatic scale has its own color.
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Show Velocity: Applies eight different colors, in accordance with MIDI velocity. These colors can
also be edited in the Layout > Colors window.
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Show Voice Assignment: Assigns different colors to different voices. This setting only makes
sense in staff styles that contain more than one voice. This mode employs the colors of
the User Palette, which can also be found and edited in the Layout > Colors window, or by
opening File > Project Settings > Score > Colors.
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Force Black & White: Does exactly what the name implies. This mode is useful when color
options have been used in staff styles, or have been assigned to notes using note attributes,
but you want to print a black-and-white score.
Show or hide folder contents
If the current display level allows more than one MIDI region to be viewed simultaneously (linked
or unlinked), the View > Explode Folders setting lets you display, and print, the contents of
different display (folder) levels simultaneously.
If the current display level contains folders, their contents are also displayed in the score.
Note: If this setting is not selected, folders appear as gray beams in Linear Score view, and aren’t
shown at all in Page view.
Show folder contents in the score
m Choose View > Explode Folders from the Score Editor menu bar.
Display global tracks
In Linear view, you can display global tracks in the Score Editor. You choose which global track
types are shown in the Score Editor, independent of those shown in the Tracks area.
Show global tracks in the Score Editor
m Choose View > Global Tracks from the Score Editor menu bar.