5 Everything Else
HERE ARE SOME OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES that you will probably find helpful.
Wrapped View
Apple describes the Wrapped View feature thusly: “The Wrapped View makes maximum use of space by dynamically reflowing the staves to conform to the window size.”
In all candor, I’m not sure I get that, so I will let pictures do the talking. Figure 5.1 shows a score in Page View. Notice the three icons in red? They toggle between Linear View, Wrapped View, and Page View. Figures 5.2 and 5.3 show examples of Linear View and Wrapped View.
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So does Wrapped View show a little more than Linear View in the same amount of screen real estate? I think it does.
Customizable Part Boxes
In Figure 5.4, you can see the Part Box as it appears in Logic Pro 9. While you can see specifically what is in a part group by clicking on it, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to customize groups?
Figure 5.4 The Part Box in Logic Pro 9.
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Figure 5.5 shows the Logic Pro X Part Box, opened to a subgroup called Customized, while Figure 5.6 shows the optional filters that are in any new project.
Figure 5.5 The Part Box in Logic Pro X set to Customized.
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Figure 5.6 The Part Box’s filters.
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In Figure 5.7, I have selected All and then simply deselected the specific groups I don’t want to see. I can then choose to create a new set and name it, as I have done in Figure 5.8. I can then return to All and create another set.
Figure 5.7 The Part Box with some groups deselected.
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Figure 5.8 The renamed Part Box set.
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More Accurate Duration Bars
Duration bars now correctly display note lengths of the same duration, which was not always true in the past. Many times what you saw was not what you got. Now, as you can see in Figure 5.9, it is.
Figure 5.9 Duration bars with improved accuracy.
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New String Bend Symbols for Guitar Tablature
In my book Scoring with Logic Pro (Cengage PTR, 2013), I only briefly covered guitar tablature, as it is a very deep subject and unless you’re doing published songs for a sheet-music company or you really know your way around the guitar and don’t trust the guitarists you hire to deal with this, you’re probably better off to observe the Hippocratic Oath and “first do no harm.”
That said, Apple has added some string bend symbols that allow you to indicate just how far a specific string needs to bend in Logic Pro X. Once again, comparative pictures of the guitar tablature symbols in Logic Pro 9 and Logic Pro X, as you can see in Figures 5.10 and 5.11, tell the story.
Figure 5.10 Guitar tablature symbols in Logic Pro 9.
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Figure 5.11 Guitar tablature symbols in Logic Pro X.
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And that, folks, is my summary of the improvements and new features of the Logic Pro X Score Editor. As always, have fun!