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Chapter 33
Working With Notation
Creating Your Own Staff Styles
You can create new staff styles, and edit, delete, and duplicate existing staff styles in
the Staff Style window.
A staff style includes the following editable parameters:
 Number of staffs (for the display of one MIDI region).
 For polyphonic, multiple staff styles: configuration of brackets and bar lines that
connect the staffs.
 For every staff: Staff size, distance to the next (higher and lower) staffs, number of
independent (polyphonic) voices in the staff, clef, display transposition, key signature
on/off.
 For every independent (polyphonic) voice: Automatic rest display on/off, stem
direction of notes, tie direction, direction of N-tuplet brackets and numbers,
beaming.
 MIDI channel assignment for the voice, or definition of a split point pitch—for
separation of the different voices, note color, number of staffs used to display a MIDI
region (usually one, but two when using the Piano styles, and three when using the
Organ styles), the clefs, and display transposition.
To open the Staff Style window:
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Choose Layout > Staff Styles (or use the Open Staff Style Window key command).
 Link Button: If the Link button is activated while the Staff Style window is open, you
will always see the parameters of the currently selected MIDI region’s staff style. If
you switch to a different MIDI region, the Staff Style window will reflect the new
selection.
Hierarchy button
Link button
Tools
Name box
Voice parameters
Staff parameters
Assign parameters