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Chapter 20 View and edit music notation 684
Work with sta styles
Sta styles overview
Using sta styles, you can control the display of clefs, rests, stems, ties, and beams, change the
displayed transposition, and adjust the sta size and space between stas. You can choose from
a variety of predened sta styles or customize and create your own sta styles to use in your
scores. Sta styles aect the visual display of the score, but have no eect on MIDI playback.
Sta styles are saved as part of the project, so you can use dierent sta styles in dierent
projects. You can import frequently used sta styles into other projects to speed up your
workow.
You can assign sta styles in the Region inspector, and edit sta styles in the Sta Style window.
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can assign
sta styles to tracks in your project and edit sta styles. When Additional Score Options is
selected, you can also assign styles to individual regions.
Tip: Create a template project with the sta styles and other score settings that you use
frequently, so they are all available when you start a new project.
Assign sta styles to tracks
You can assign a dierent sta style to each track in the score. Changing sta styles allows
you to control the display of individual stas in the score, and quickly create parts for
transposing instruments.
Each track has a default sta style, which appears in the Sta Style pop-up menu in the Region
inspector. When you start working on a new project, or create a project template, you can
change this setting for tracks that will use a specic sta style, so that regions recorded on these
tracks are displayed with the correct sta style with no further editing.
If you choose Auto Style from the Sta Style pop-up menu, the track is assigned a sta style that
ts the range of notes in the regions on the track. For example, if the regions consist of notes
played below middle C, a Bass sta style is assigned to the track. Two-handed parts (with notes
both above and below middle C) are assigned a Piano sta style.
Note: Auto Style can only be chosen in the Region inspector, and does not appear in the list of
sta styles in the Score Editor Region inspector.
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can assign
sta styles to tracks in your project and edit sta styles.
When Additional Score Options is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can
assign sta styles to individual MIDI regions as well as to tracks, allowing you to use multiple
styles on a single sta. This can be used to alternate between fully notated passages and
“improvised” passages using only beat slashes and chord symbols, for example.