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Notion 6.3—New Features and Fixes!

Notion 6.3 is available now! It’s free to Notion 6+ users. Launch Notion and click “check for updates” in the drop-down menu to get it.

New Features:

Community Presets

Notion ships with built-in presets for several popular VST libraries (including Vienna Symphonic Library, Miroslav and Garritan). And for those we don’t support out of the box, you can use Notion’s Rules Editor to quickly make your own. But what if you don’t have time to create a new one? Or you want to make changes to our built-in presets? Or you want to share your presets with a pal?

 

Selecting a Flute in Score Setup, from the Vienna Symphonic Library Special Edition preset

Notion 6.3 now adds:

  • A brand new Community Preset repository where you can add, download, share and maintain presets, including access to Notion’s built-in presets.

Find it at: https://github.com/notionmusic/presets

  • A new folder location on your computer for your custom presets (that will load directly into Notion’s Score Setup)
  • New Preset Expressions to add any expressions in your libraries that are not found in Notion

Export for SMP Press

SMP Press from Sheet Music Plus, is a self-publishing portal for composers. If you’re ready to get your materials uploaded to SMP Press but not sure how to create a single PDF that includes your score AND all your parts AND need to make an mp3, then this is the new feature for you…

  • File>Export for SMP Press, is a one-click process that creates an mp3 audio file and a single PDF that contains full score and all parts in score order

All enhancements and fixes:

Notation

  • Improved rhythmic spelling on MIDI or Studio One import
  • Can now resize “Measure number” text
  • Can now resize “Change Instrument” text
  • When Notion is set to Korean, Japanese or Sim Chinese, the drumpad now enters cymbals with expected crossed noteheads
  • If a slur/hairpin has been adjusted, delete will delete as expected rather than deselect

Audio

  • Increase in the allowed buffer size
  • Better handling of audio device changing
  • Better handling of ASIO device when buffer size changed
  • Now using a larger shared memory size in a ReWire session
  • Upload to Soundcloud dialog now shows

Rules Editor and VST’s

  • New rule test for “no articulation”
  • “Palm mute” and “slap” added to Techniques
  • [macOS] MIDI values can be typed in drop down menus (macOS)
  • Long drop-downs now open at the expected selected item
  • [Win] Fixes to the GUI resizing when a selection is made
  • Fix for occasional crash when closing Plug-in manager
  • [macOS] Fix for not sending some keyboard presses to Notion when a plug-in window is open

General

  • [macOS] Notion folder in iCloud Drive now shows persistently in Sierra and High Sierra
  • [macOS] Now uses the system’s own conflict resolution in iCloud Drive (if a file is edited on another machine whilst one is open on the Mac)
  • [macOS] Improvements to full screen use on macOS
  • [macOS] Fixes to using the built-in tab bar to create a new document
  • [macOS] Fix for crash when closing a document in full screen
  • [macOS] Fix for occasional crash when selecting Templates on High Sierra
  • [Win] Save As and Export filenames and locations are no longer broken up when there are periods (full stops) in the filename
  • [Win] Save As and Export save locations now default to the original document location, or if not set, the desktop
  • Print Parts dialog now in score order
  • Print Parts to PDF now prints in score order
  • New crash reporters for macOS and Windows