Apple Logic Express 8 - Manual (Page 775)

Chapter 33 Working With Notation 775
Note: As note attributes, these settings have priority over the staff style settings, but
they only apply if the color mode is set to Normal in the Score Editor’s View > Colors
menu.
Resetting Note Attributes
You can reset all note attributes to their default settings by choosing Attributes > Reset
All Attributes (or using the Reset Note Attributes key command).
Working With Staff Styles
Staff styles store multiple attributes, such as the clef, staff size, vertical distance
between staffs, instrument transposition, and so on. It’s simply a case of choosing a
new staff style to alter the score layout of any existing, or newly created, MIDI region.
The chosen staff style has no effect on MIDI playback. It only affects the way
Logic Express displays the score.
On occasion, the included set of predefined staff styles will not meet your needs, and
you will need to create your own. This is done in the Staff Styles window (see “
Creating
Your Own Staff Styles ” on page 778).
Staff styles are saved with the project file, allowing different staff styles in different
projects.
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Tip: Create some empty template projects with (among other things) the staff styles,
and other score settings, that you would normally use as a basis for your work.
Assigning Staff Styles to MIDI Regions
You can assign a different staff style to each individual MIDI region. In most
circumstances, the predefined staff styles will meet your needs (see the table below).
Changing staff styles enables you to quickly:
 Create parts for transposing instruments.
 Display the same MIDI region at different sizes—perhaps to print out a full score, and
individual parts for the different instruments.
 Change between different display forms in one staff. This would be done by cutting a
MIDI region, and assigning different staff styles to the resulting shorter regions. This
might be used to alternate between passages that are completely transcribed, and
improvised passages—using only beat slashes and chord symbols—for example.
Warning: Take care when doing this: all symbols directly attached to notes (accents,
fermatas, jazz symbols, and so on) will be deleted when you reset note attributes!