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848Logic Pro User Guide
Display polyphonic parts on separate staffs in Logic Pro
You can “explode” polyphonic parts, displaying all voices on separate staffs, regardless
of staff style settings. (Other voice parameters remain valid.) This makes it easier to add
notes using the pointer.
If you add a note to a staff style that uses MIDI channels for voice separation, it’s
automatically assigned the corresponding MIDI channel (of the staff that you add the note
to). When you’re finished adding notes, turn off the Explode Polyphony setting so all voices
are displayed correctly in one staff.
If you add notes to a polyphonic staff without turning on the Explode Polyphony setting,
the notes are assigned the MIDI channel set in the Insert Defaults of the Event inspector
(but only if that channel is used by one of the voices in the staff).
Display polyphonic parts on separate staffs
Choose View > Explode Polyphony from the Score Editor menu bar (or use the
corresponding key command).
Change the staff assignment of score symbols in Logic Pro
In addition to notes, most other score symbols can be assigned to a particular staff in a
multiple-staff staff style. The Event inspector includes a Staff parameter where you can set
the staff for these symbols.
Change the staff for a score symbol
1. Select the symbol in the score.
You might need to use the Layout tool to select the symbol.
2. In the Event inspector, drag the Staff number up or down to change the staff for the
selected symbol.
Beam notes across staffs in Logic Pro
Music for keyboard instruments, and other instruments notated on multiple staffs, can
contain passages where notes on different staffs (played by the left and right hand, for
example) are connected with a beam, to clarify that the musical phrase continues across
the staffs.
In the Score Editor, only notes belonging to the same voice can be connected with beams.
By default, notes of the same voice are normally all displayed on the same staff. Using the
Score Editors Staff Assignment commands, you can display notes of the same voice on
different staffs.