Apple Logic Express 8 - Manual (Page 910)

910 Chapter 38 Working in the Environment
Cabling Mapped Instruments
You can send individual notes from a mapped instrument object to (up to) 16 different
output cables, enabling you to play sounds from different sound sources. If you select a
cable that doesn’t exist, the note will not be sent out.
Initialize > Output Cables resets all cables to #1 (the top outlet of the Mapped
Instrument).
Notation Parameters
The last three columns define the notation parameters of individual notes.
 Head: This pop-up menu allows you to change the note head.
 Rel. Pos: This field is used to alter the relative position of the note on the staff. This
does not alter the pitch, only the vertical positioning of the note head on a staff in
the Score Editor. Simply click-hold and drag vertically to alter the note position.
 Group: As the mapped instrument object is typically used for percussion
instruments, click-holding the Group field opens a menu of grouped drum families:
Kick, Snare, and so on. MIDI sound modules can have drum sounds mapped across
127 possible notes, which would result in an interesting staff (to say the least!). Assign
several related percussion sounds (tom drums, for example) to the Toms group to
place all related sounds on a single staff line. As with the relative position, the pitch
of grouped notes is not affected by grouping them on a single line.
Choosing Initialize > Score Parameters neutralizes the settings of the Head, RelPos., and
Group parameters.