Apple Logic Pro 9 - Manual (Page 963)

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
Knowing the Predefined Staff Styles ).
Changing staff styles allows you to quickly:
• Create parts for transposing instruments.
• Display the same MIDI region at different sizes—perhaps to print a full score, and
individual parts for the different instruments.
• Change between different display forms in one staff. You do this 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.
To assign a staff style (predefined or user-created) to a MIDI region
1 Select the MIDI region.
2 Choose a staff style from the Style parameter pop-up menu in the Display Parameter box.
You can also simultaneously assign a staff style to several selected regions.
Assigning Staff Styles Automatically
When you create a new MIDI region, either by making a real-time recording or with the
Pencil tool in the Arrange area, the MIDI region is assigned the staff style selected in the
bottom line of the Track Parameter box.
When you create template projects, or begin work on a new project, you may want to
change these settings for tracks that are likely to use a specific staff style. This ensures
that regions recorded on these tracks are immediately displayed with the correct staff
style.
If Auto Style is chosen in the bottom line of the Track Parameter box, every new MIDI
region is automatically assigned a staff style that fits the register of the recorded notes.
In other words, a Bass staff style is selected automatically if your region consists of notes
played in a low octave. Similarly, two-handed parts are assigned a Piano staff style.
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