Apple MB792Z/A User Manual - Page 951

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. Chapter 31 Working with Notation 951