i am working on an arrangement of I'M BLUE (dabudì dabudai - Eiffel 65) for my first-year middle school students
and i would like to use Logic's SCORE tool so that I can listen to the final performance by assigning a sound from some sound libraries I have acquired (and loaded into Logic) to each part. but let's take it step by step. I would like to set up the following instrumentation:
- 1 voice (and/or choir - one staff is enough for me)
- 1 flute (and/or recorder - one staff is enough for me)
- 1 guitar
- 5 keyboards/synths (5 grand staves)
- Percussion (2 single staves - to simplify the performance, I have broken down the normal part into many small mini-ostinatos, to be assigned to 4-5 students)
Base key: D minor
for now, it would be enough for me just to know how to set up the score.
Every part in Logic corresponds to a track. First of all, therefore, create the tracks you need.
By clicking on a track and going down to score, you access the sheet music.
If you want to see the scores of all instruments together (the orchestral score), then you must go to Windows and at the bottom you will see your filename with 'score' written next to it.
The score of the selected part will open full screen. In the top left, you will see an arrow pointing to the left, similar to the one used to go up folders in CMS. This way you will go to the orchestral view.
Clicking on the staff of a part opens only that part. To return to the orchestral view, use the same old arrow. There is then a series of settable options for margins, for the number of measures per line, etc., etc. The names of the instruments are taken from the track name, so changing the track name in the Channel Strip also changes the name of the part in the score.
You can find the various options in Preferences...
For other problems, just ask.
Tkeep in mind, however, that Logic is a DAW, so it is not suitable for writing music on a Score... I suggest you use Finale or Sibelius
Honestly, I am not an expert on Finale; I have written something about it, but I have never used it for a production. Anyway, I really believe it is possible to use the VSTs you loaded in Logic even in Finale. But here is the part about the mix: perhaps it would be better to do it in Logic since it is software designed specifically for this purpose. You can export the MIDI file from Finale and open it inside Logic. From there, you can then do the arrangement.
