Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 899)

Chapter 25 Preferences, project settings, and key commands 899
Tablature settings
Score Tablature settings are only available when Additional Score Options is selected in
Advanced preferences.
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 played. The fret
numbers are shown instead of regular note heads. Logic Pro automatically converts notes into
tablature, if a staff style containing a Clef parameter set to one of these tuning sets is used. The
exact characteristics of these tuning sets are determined in the Tablature pane.
Twelve different tuning sets can be defined. Each of them corresponds to one line in this pane.
The regular guitar and bass tunings are already included as defaults (first line and last five lines),
as are some of the more common guitar tunings.
Tuning set parameters
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Name field: Double-click to change the name in the text field.
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Strings pop-up menu: Choose the number of strings (between 3 and 16).
Note: Up to eight strings are shown directly within the pane. If more than eight are selected,
you can move the visible section by clicking the arrows, or dragging the scroller.
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Assign pop-up menu: Select the method for automatically assigning notes to strings.
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1 to 16 fields: Double-click to type, or drag vertically to select, the pitch that the open strings
are tuned to.