Apple Logic Pro 9 - Manual (Page 951)

Display Parameters
This section outlines all of the display parameters available in the Score Editor. To reiterate
the point, these only affect the appearance of events in the score, not the playback of
events.
Quantize
This parameter applies visual quantization to notes: it determines the shortest note value
that can be displayed in the currently selected MIDI region. (The exception is artificial
N-tuplets; see
Creating and Editing N-Tuplets in the Score Editor .)
For example, if you insert a short note, such as a 32nd note, it can only be displayed at
its original length if Quantize is set to 32 or shorter. If Quantize is set to 8, the 32nd note
is displayed as an eighth note (although it will still be played back as a 32nd note).
You choose the Quantize value from a pop-up menu, which contains all available display
quantization options.
Among the options are binary quantizations (displayed as one binary value—16 or 128),
and hybrid quantizations (two values combined, a binary and a ternary value—16,24 or
32,96, for example).
Binary values always correspond to the note value with the same denominator; for
example, 32 corresponds to thirty-second notes, and so on. Ternary values refer to triplets.
Here is a list of the ternary values, and their corresponding triplet values:
Corresponding note length Quantize setting
1/2-note triplets 3
1/4-note triplets 6
1/8-note triplets 12
1/16-note triplets 24
1/32-note triplets 48
1/64-note triplets 96
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