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Notion 6.5 Release Notes

Notion 6.5 is here! Launch Notion and you’ll be notified of the update. Click “install now” to get it! Release notes follow.

 

Notion 6.5 Release Notes

NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS

Studio One Integration

  • Drum tracks can now be transferred from Studio One and are automatically translated into standard drum set notation:

If you’re using Drum Patterns in Studio One, be sure to convert to a track before sending to Notion

 

  • Chords imported from Studio One’s chord track, now playback if slash notation is present
  • Chords imported from Studio One can now all be selected in one go with Select Special>Select Chord Symbols
  • Accidentals in imported chords from Studio One’s chord track now display correctly

 


MusicXML updates
MusicXML is a file format that you can use to import and export scores to and from other notation applications. Notion 6.5 has a number of updates to the support of MusicXML – not just on new articulations and symbols, but also major improvements in guitar tablature and with voices.

  • Tablature export and import reworked
  • Support for .musicxml file extension
  • Better handling of any missing slur end elements on import, to avoid very long slurs occurring
  • Voices on grand staff re-worked
  • When importing with time signatures that have a high numeral (e.g. 11/4), whole measure rests now show in empty measures
  • New elements imported:
    • sf, sfp, fp, sfz and fz
    • Beaming
    • Measured tremolos that include tuplets
    • Very short duration notes (down to 1024th notes)
    • Fermatas
    • Harmonic circle symbol / Open circle symbol
    • Snap (Bartok) pizzicato
    • Scoop, doit and fall-offt
  • New elements exported:
    • Clef changes
    • Pizz and arco
    • Pre-bends
    • sf, sfp, fp, sfz and fz
    • Mutes
    • Measured tremolos
    • Noteheads
    • Fermatas
    • Harmonic circle symbol / Open circle symbol
    • Snap (Bartok) pizzicato
    • Scoop, doit and fall-off

Tremolo

  • Entry behaviour changed: e.g. for a fingered tremolo with quarter duration, now insert two eighths before applying the tremolo.

Write this

Select the tremolo and click on the note

Notion displays this

                         

 

 

  • Tremolo can now be clicked onto the first note or in between notes
  • Stems now can go in either direction in a voice 2 tremolo

  • Fingered tremolos that include chords now play back

  • Fingered tremolos with 3-beams now play back, even if there is no sample present
  • Bug fixed for the second note of a fingered tremolo changing duration if tremolo clicked onto second note (now does nothing)
  • Bug fixed for a third note being added to an existing tremolo, if a tremolo is clicked onto the second note (now does nothing)

Slash notation

  • Bass note of chords now supported in playback
  • Augmentation dot has more spacing when using Jazz Font

  • Slashes now also play back from chords imported from Studio One

Rules

  • [Win] User preset techniques can now be inserted with the mouse when there are multiple techniques to choose from
    Solo/a2/a3/tutti expressions added to Rules Editor
  • Erroneous note-offs now not sent when ‘automatic note-offs’ is in a rule

Selection

  • [Win] Ctrl+click now works like right click so context menu can be accessed even in the absence of a mouse (if for example using a Windows tablet and attached keyboard)
  • [Win] Fix events not being able to be unselected on touchscreen
  • [Win] If palette is hidden, then right click no longer cancels selection
  • [Win] If palette is hidden, then right clicking on a note no longer auditions the note

General Fixes

  • Superfluous ‘File>Page Setup’ dialog removed – page sizes changed via Score>Full Score Options, or Score>Parts Options
  • Pasting into a different voice now does not remove any existing rest at the beginning of the destination measure
  • Default video framerate changed to 24fps so that the toolbar time display matches the score (framerate can be changed from the ‘Attach Video’ dialog)
  • [Win] Notion’s Studio One launcher now also looks for Studio One 4
  • Updated Studio One image in the ‘Send to Studio One’ dialog
  • Fix for text getting cut off in Instrument Settings in German language only
  • [macOS] Fix for Progression files (.prog) opening with Notion 6
  • User Guide and Shortcuts pdf updated with Jazz articulation shortcuts
  • [Win] Fix occasional issue in some Print/Print to PDF/Save scenarios
  • [Mac] Issue fixed if an instrument is double clicked in the ‘Change Instrument’ dialog