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524 Chapter 16 Score Editor
Rhythmic Interpretation of Sequences
Traditional music notation is only an approximate description of the musical content in
a piece. The actual performance depends heavily on the interpretation of the notes by
the performing musicians. Quarter notes for example, hardly ever are held exactly for
the duration of one beat.
The rhythmic interpretation of MIDI Regions recorded in real time to a click presents a
similar problem, especially if one considers that Logic records MIDI events with a
resolution of 960 ticks per quarter note. Nobody will play a downbeat at the exact time
of the click.
So, it is important that you have some idea of what your printed music should look like.
This idea will be help you to determine Display Parameter box settings which will fit
your music. The settings Display Quantization (see “Qua (Display Quantization)” on
page 524), Interpretation (see “Interpretation” on page 526), Syncopation (see
“Syncopation” on page 527), and No Overlaps (see “No Overlap” on page 528) all affect
the way the recorded music is displayed.
Name and Style
Title Line: Name of the Sequence
The name displayed here is identical to the name of the same MIDI Region in the
Arrange window. It can also be edited from here. A double-click on the name opens an
text entry field. If more than one MIDI Region is selected, this line reads X Sequences
selected, if nothing is selected, Insert Defaults (the default settings for new Regions).
Style
The Score Style (see “Basics” on page 529) used for the score display of the MIDI Region.
This is selected from a pull-down menu, which contains all available Score Styles for the
current song.
Qua (Display Quantization)
This parameter determines the shortest note value which can be displayed in the
currently selected MIDI Region (exception: “artificial” N-tuplets, see the section
“Artificial” N-Tuplets to Bypass Display Quantization (see “N-Tuplets” on page 499)).
The Qua value is selected from a pull-down menu, which contains the available display
quantizations. Among these there are binary quantizations (displayed as one binary
value like 16 or 128), and hybrid quantizations (two values combined, a binary and a
ternary value, i.e. 16,24 or 32,96).
The binary values always correspond to the note value with the same denominator, i.e.
32 = thirty-second note and so on Ternary values refer to triplets. Here is a list of the
ternary values, and their corresponding triplet values: