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An advantage of this approach is that you don’t need to worry about MIDI channels
during recording or input, and notes won’t disappear unintentionally. There is, however,
the disadvantage that the Voice Separation tool cannot be used to assign notes to
Voices.
Other applications for this method would include; the display of beamed grace notes,
occasional polyphony in a guitar part, or the indication of rhythmic accents above or
below beat slashes in rhythm section parts.
Don’t forget that you can add further Voices to a staff, to display more complex parts
(up to 16).
Multi-Stave Polyphonic Score Styles
(With more Voices than staves)
These Score Styles are mainly used for notating keyboard music. If you start Logic
without using an Autoload or Template song file, an empty song appears. It contains
polyphonic Score Styles (see “Predefined Styles” on page 382) for piano (Piano 1
+ 2/3 + 4)
and church organ (Organ 1 + 2/3 + 4/5, with three staves).
These Score Styles are simply a combination of the Score Style types covered in this
section. To insert an additional Voice or staff, place the Insert Mark (>) at the desired
position with the mouse (see illustration), and select New > Insert Voice or New > Insert
Staff.
In these complex types of Score Styles, it’s often best to use the Explode Polyphony
(see “Input and Recording of Polyphonic Voices” on page 392) mode when editing.
Cross Staff Beaming
Music for keyboard instruments or harp (which is notated in two staves) sometimes
contains passages where notes in the upper and lower staff (played by the left and
right hand) are connected with a beam, to emphasize the continuing musical phrase.
Required Settings
Cross-staff beaming is only possible between staves that belong to the same Score
Style, and therefore to the same MIDI Region. The Voices in this Score Style also require
different MIDI channel assignments—it is not possible to achieve cross-staff beaming
with a Score Style that only uses a split point pitch for Voice separation.
The Procedure in Detail
As notes can only be connected with beams if they belong to the same Voice, it’s not
possible to simply select notes in both staves, and apply the usual beaming attribute
functions to them. As an example, let’s imagine a two-staff Score Style with one Voice
per staff. Before beaming the notes, you need to assign all notes that you want
connected by a beam to the same Voice. Let’s choose the Voice of the upper staff for
this purpose.