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The following features are new in Notion 5:

Studio

• Write to picture:
  • Video window – 64-bit Windows^® and Mac^®; support for modern file formats
  • Film Score staff to add timecode and hitpoints
  • Frame-rate options
  • Fit to Time tool adjusts selected region to required duration
• Audio upsampling for export
• Start/stop at any point in an attached Wave file
• Export audio of each staff or bus as an individual stem
• New PreSonus^® Native Effects™ plug-ins from Studio One^®: Compressor, Limiter, EQ
• Number of mixer buses doubled from four to eight
• New VST sample library support including Sample Logic and System Blue marching band and percussion libraries

Notation

• Cross-staff beaming:
  • Notes can be beamed across staves, from left to right hands, for grand staff instruments (piano, harp, clavinet, electric piano, harpsichord, marimba, synth, celesta)
  • Arpeggios and glissandi will work across both staves
• Chords:
  • Expanded chord library and characters
  • Recent-chord picker
  • Design custom chord symbols and diagrams
  • Chord symbols now vertically align on the page
  • Chords remain on fretboard for repeated entry
  • Chord diagrams can be edited on fretboard
• Drag score items for exact placement
• Improvement of note spelling in MIDI entry
• Flip enharmonics of a region and of selected notes
• Copy-and-paste in specific voices
• Add ties in step time
• Cautionary key and clef
• Out-of-range notes turn different color
• Add Capo feature
• Stemless slashes for leadsheets
• Ability to change font for all score text items
• Multiple first-time repeat endings
• Select and copy all lyrics
• In Multi-Voice entry, move staccato articulation to center the articulation with the note stem
• Allow user to manually move articulations vertically
• Add ability to set the articulation to a particular side of a note
• Add extended melisma line to lyrics
• New instrument expansion packs available:
  • Brass: Alto Trombone, Bass Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Soprano Trumpet
  • Woodwind: Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Bass Oboe, Basset Horn, Contrabass Clarinet, Oboe d’Amore

Publishing

• Multiple printing:
  • Print all parts
  • Print specific numbers of parts
  • Print selected parts
• Titles now synced across score and parts
• Format dynamic part layout separately to full score
• Edit fonts for all text items

User Interface

• Retina display (Mac)
• Touchscreen optimization for Windows 8
• Custom Rules Editor to easily integrate third-party VST libraries
• Sibelius and Finale number pad shortcut set options
• Localization in U.S. and British English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin American Spanish
• New international keyboard shortcut set to utilize numbers for rhythms rather than letters
• User interface redesign to reflect PreSonus Studio One^® style

Notion 5 also has the following fixes and improvements:

• Ties in grand staff voices now show the correct way up
• Playback of chord extensions now possible (when using rhythm slashes)
• Bracketed groups now showing on imported MIDI files
• Option to keep mixer on top
• Option added to keep video window on top and view/hide shortcut
• Allow a mix of stems up and stems down in a beam group
• Fix exporting chord extensions in MusicXML
• Tuplet numbers show as default on the stem side, rather than note side
• Quick Reference Guide updated and localized
• User Guide fully updated
• Issue with accidentals on grand staff now fixed
• Updated presets for Vienna Symphonic Library available
• Bundled sounds in smaller download chunks
• Fix the ends of slurs colliding with staccato
• Fix slurs being attached occasionally to wrong voice
• Fix ability to change stem direction for middle voices in a measure that has more than two voices
• New pricing for education site licenses
• Notion tech support, online shop, downloads, resources, user accounts, Web site, forums, and knowledgebase now part of My PreSonus and www.presonus.com