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490 Chapter 16 Score Editor
• Simultaneous step input into several Regions is not possible. If more that one MIDI
Region is selected, the notes will be inserted into only one MIDI Region.
• If several Regions on the same track in the Arrange window follow one another, even
with gaps in-between, you can insert notes using step input from one MIDI Region
to the next. As soon as the Song Position Line reaches the beginning of the next
MIDI Region, Logic will insert the notes into that MIDI Region automatically.
Mouse Input
In order to insert notes, symbols, and text elements (called objects in the following
sections) with the mouse, there has to be a staff into which these objects can be
inserted. Each staff (even an empty one) is the direct representation of one or more
Regions. Empty Regions can be created with the Pencil tool in the Arrange window,
where their length and position can also be changed.
These empty Regions are displayed in the Score window as empty staves, with
automatically displayed rests (unless the automatic rest display is deactivated in the
assigned Score Style).
Input
For mouse input, you first need to select an object in the Part box, and then drag it to
the desired position in the main working area. As a positioning aid, you will see a help
tag, instead of the local window menus, as long as you are “holding” the object with
the mouse. Now move the mouse with the button pressed, until the desired position is
shown in the help tag. Release the mouse button. At smaller zoom levels, it’s especially
important to use the help tag to find the correct position.
When you are working in full score view, and insert objects between the staves (such as
dynamic symbols), you should make sure that these symbols have been inserted into
the desired MIDI Region/staff. Immediately after inserting an object, the MIDI Region
into which you inserted the object will be selected, and therefore be displayed with
blue stave lines. You can also see its name in the top line of the Display Parameter box.
In general, it is better to change to single staff display (double-click on the staff), for
inserting objects which are positioned between staves (especially lyrics). Although in
full score mode it does not matter to which MIDI Region an object belongs, since they
stay where you put them, such objects can be displayed with the wrong instrument,
when single instrument parts are displayed and printed later.
All Part box objects and their particular features are described in detail in the section
The Part box (see “The Part Box” on page 495).