If you look in the Score Editor’s Inspector you’ll see an item called Quantize with a pop-up menu just to the right. Selecting the tied notes and applying Syncopation creates the eighth-quarter-eighth look. Typical use example is an eighth-quarter-eighth look that shows up as a four eighth notes, with the second and third notes tied together. I find it easier to leave this off and add only as needed. This is toggled on/off in the same methods as Interpretation and is always found next to it in the above mentioned areas. You probably want this Interpretation quarter note look to be passed along in your exported SMF, see below. You may have also played the note a bit early, Interpretation puts the note on the beat. Interpretation mode assumes you want a quarter note and displays it as such, avoiding a look of a tied 1/8 th to a 16 th followed by a 16 th note rest. What does Interpretation do? For example say you play in a quarter note, but its actual duration is closer to three 16th notes long as you played it just a bit short. You can also double click on a note to open up the Note Attributes window and go to Interpretation, selecting Force from the pop-up menu. This can also be managed on the track level by making a note selection and navigating to the Attributes menu > Interpretation and selecting Force from the sub-menu. (If you add notes by hand this is normally not needed and best left unchecked.) This can be achieved globally by checking the Interpretation box in the Score Editor’s Inspector. If you play parts in live, you will generally get much more readable part(s) and score by having the Interpretation mode selected.
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Let’s look at what they do, and how to pass along this information in a SMF. You may also need to deal with pedal markings (these do affect playback). These items affect Logic’s display only – playback remains unaffected. The important proprietary formatting items are Display Quantize, Interpretation mode and to a lesser degree, Syncopation mode. To maximize compatibility before exporting a SMF, you’ll need to do some adjustments, as described below. However, you can export a Standard MIDI File (SMF) and achieve good results. Logic has its own proprietary notation display formatting and doesn’t currently support Music XML. For Logic users there may come the time that one needs to get a file over to Finale or Sibelius to finish a project.