User guide

778 Chapter 33 Working With Notation
Creating Your Own Staff Styles
You can create new staff styles, and edit, delete, and duplicate existing staff styles in
the Staff Style window.
A staff style includes the following editable parameters:
 Number of staffs (for the display of one MIDI region).
 For polyphonic, multiple staff styles: configuration of brackets and bar lines that
connect the staffs.
 For every staff: Staff size, distance to the next (higher and lower) staffs, number of
independent (polyphonic) voices in the staff, clef, display transposition, key signature
on/off.
 For every independent (polyphonic) voice: Automatic rest display on/off, stem
direction of notes, tie direction, direction of N-tuplet brackets and numbers,
beaming.
 MIDI channel assignment for the voice, or definition of a split point pitch—for
separation of the different voices, note color, number of staffs used to display a MIDI
region (usually one, but two when using the Piano styles, and three when using the
Organ styles), the clefs, and display transposition.
To open the Staff Style window:
m Choose Layout > Staff Styles (or use the Open Staff Style Window key command).
 Link Button: If the Link button is activated while the Staff Style window is open, you
will always see the parameters of the currently selected MIDI region’s staff style. If
you switch to a different MIDI region, the Staff Style window will reflect the new
selection.
Hierarchy button
Link button Tools
Name box
Voice parametersStaff parameters Assign parameters