New PreSonus Progression 3 Features
August 13, 2014 by Steve Oppenheimer
The following features are new in Progression 3:
Studio
- Audio upsampling for export
- Export audio of each staff or bus as an individual stem
- New PreSonus® Native Effects™ plug-ins from Studio One®: Compressor, Limiter, EQ
Notation
- Cross-staff beaming:
- Notes can be beamed across staves, from left to right hands, for grand staff instruments (piano, clavinet, electric piano)
- 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
- Add Capo feature
- Select and copy all lyrics
- Add extended melisma line to lyrics
- Stemless slashes for leadsheets
- Ability to change font for all score text items
- 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
- Multiple first-time repeat endings
- 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
User Interface
- Retina display (Mac)
- Touchscreen optimization for Windows 8
- 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
Progression 3 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
- 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
- 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
- Progression tech support, online shop, downloads, resources, user accounts, Web site, forums, and knowledgebase now part of My PreSonus and www.presonus.com
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