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Logic Pro 9 User Manual - Help Library - Apple

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You can, of course, also insert notes directly into polyphonic staffs without turning on<br />

the Explode Polyphony setting. In this situation, inserted notes are assigned the MIDI<br />

channel set in the Insert Defaults of the Event Parameter box (but only if that particular<br />

channel is used by one of the voices in the staff).<br />

Changing the Staff Assignment of Symbols<br />

There is a Staff parameter in the Event Parameter box for most symbols inserted into<br />

multiple staff styles. This parameter determines which staff the symbol belongs to.<br />

Cross Staff Beaming<br />

Music for keyboard instruments or harp (which is notated in two staffs) sometimes contains<br />

passages where notes in the upper and lower staff (played by the left and right hand)<br />

are connected with a beam, to emphasize the continuing musical phrase.<br />

Cross staff beamed notes<br />

In the Score Editor, notes can only be connected with beams if they belong to the same<br />

voice. Notes that belong to the same voice, however, are displayed in the same staff. You<br />

need to use the Score Editor’s Staff Assignment commands to display the same voice<br />

notes in separate staffs.<br />

For example, the following screenshot depicts a piano passage, displayed in the Piano<br />

staff style. The notes in the upper staff belong to voice one, using MIDI channel one. The<br />

notes in the lower staff belong to voice two, using MIDI channel two. Imagine that you<br />

want to connect the eight notes in the first bar with beams, to emphasize the continuing<br />

musical phrase.<br />

980 Chapter 31 Working with Notation

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