PreSonus® Notion™ 6 New Features and Fixes
August 2, 2016 by Steve Oppenheimer
New Features
Handwriting recognition, Powered by MyScript™
- Write directly into score area
- Use the optional handwriting zoom area for large scores
- Supported items: write notes, rests, chords, articulations, measure lines, accidentals, time signatures, measure lines, ledger lines, slurs, ties, clefs, voices
Transfer data to and from PreSonus® Studio One®
- Send and receive audio or note data with Studio One 3.3 or later
- Share on the same computer or with any computer on the same network
- Send VST instrument data and presets
Content
- New Lakeside Pipe Organ from Soundiron with five stops and pedals
- New Olympus Micro Choir from Soundiron with “ooh” and “aah” sounds
- Notion Harpsichord: a 1972 instrument, made by Robert Goble & Son, Oxford
- Notion Score Library: a collection of over 200 public domain scores in the Notion format, including orchestral and piano works
Layout controls
- View/Hide Layout Handles
- Respace measure widths
- Respace staves / systems
- Hide and show empty staves
- Angled hairpins
- Hairpin opening angle
- Drag hairpins vertically
- Enter chords anywhere
- Articulations can be dragged in any direction
- Rests can now be dragged vertically
- Multi-measure rest feature completely redesigned
- Part names can be added automatically, and also edited directly
Notation
- Mid-staff instrument and transposition change
- Mid-staff transposition change in same instrument
- Change enharmonic of individual notes in a chord
- Write hammer-on directly into tab
- Write ghost notes (parentheses), including on grace notes, directly into tab
- Paste lyrics from an external source
- Many MusicXML enhancements for seamless transfer with other notation apps
- New Basic instrument category in Score Setup to add generic treble/bass clef staves
Audio/Video
- Metronome now available in playback
- Preroll record feature
- Video window control buttons: Frame Advance, Add Hitpoint, Play, Stop, and Video Volume
- Export audio as .mp3
- More FX slots: eight per channel
- MIDI over ReWire: Route MIDI from Notion to your DAW in real time
General
- Three new languages: Korean, Italian, and Simplified Chinese
- Export PDF on Windows®
- High-DPI display on Windows
- Touch gestures on Mac® Trackpad: Pinch to zoom and use two fingers to scroll
- Touch gestures on Windows refined
- New MIDI Record and MIDI Import preferences
- Import compressed MusicXML files (.mxl)
- Can now directly type in Hz values for global tuning in Preferences
- New shortcut added for Transpose (Ctrl+Shift+P)
Fixes
General
- Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese characters now show correctly after placing in text boxes on Windows.
- Preference added to import MIDI onto grand staff where appropriate
- MIDI Record options do not now affect MIDI file import
- MIDI File Import opens directly in notation; a preferences to use Sequencer Staff can be found in Preferences
- Fix matching MIDI import instruments to Notion instruments
Notation
- Enharmonic tool added to palette
- Single selected notes within a chord can now be enharmonically changed (rather than the whole chord)
- Vienna Symphonic Library 4/8 Horns and Cor anglais now showing in score setup
- Custom chord symbols, some express entry articulations, and Unicode now showing correctly in Windows
- Cup Mute now switches to other mutes and expressions
- Fill With Rests now not filling measures that have measure repeat symbols
- Show as common or cut time now unchecked by default
- Part name can now be edited
- Import MIDI file brings in key changes
- Instrument transposition in E now selectable on Windows
- 8va now not double transposing on MIDI import
- Treble 15ma now at correct pitch when using keyboard for note entry
- Celesta now sounding at correct octave
- Can now see multimeasure rests in the part, when the score only has one instrument
- Multimeasure rests now right justify with other systems on a page
- Multimeasure rest bug fixed, where in some instances they would run off the system
- Multimeasure rests do not now include pick up and partial measures
- Multimeasure rests now show correct number of rests when immediately following a start repeat line
- Multimeasure rests font for the number now resized and sits above staff
- Width of final measure now as expected
- Special barline now disappearing when using Link to Next
- Changing a note to a rest now does not delete later ties in measure or shift attachments (ties, fermatas, dynamics) later in the measure
- Fixed issues where attachments could get improperly shifted when inserting tuplets or changing a note to a rest of a different duration
- Don’t allow ties between notes that are the same letter but different pitches (e.g., E and Eb)
- Don’t allow ties to cancelling accidentals (e.g., in adjacent chords)
- Hiding cuts now does not crash Notion if it contains a glissando
- Notion now recognizes type-in chords that just have the chord number, for example, C6 rather than Cmaj6
Audio/Video
- ReWire now responds to resting cursor position from host
- Receives stopped position from ReWire slave
- Better audio device default selection in ReWire
- Better error messages from ReWire
- Sequencer staff shortcut fixes to increase/decrease velocity
- Multiple sequencer staff items can now be increased/decreased together
- Notes now easier to select in sequencer staff
- Final note in a measure in sequencer overlay can now be edited
- If hiding resting staves, do not hide staves that contain CC data
- Fix crashing when clicking in score if selected audio device and sample rate could not be opened
User Interface
- Score setup instruments now scrollable when window height is smaller
- Auto-scroll in continuous view now happens much later
- Change Instrument shortcut fixed and correctly showing as Ctrl+I
- Setup/Delete/Hide buttons now showing on the page in Score Setup
- Ctrl+; now opens/closes palette as expected on Windows
- Change Use Instrument menu item to Change Instrument to match the dialog title and add Shift+I keyboard shortcut to the menu item
- Echo MIDI preferences now in same order on Mac and Windows
- In the Change Instrument dialog, fix options not being selected when highlighted (Mac)
- Augmentation dot now works in the keypad with the Sibelius and Finale settings
System
- Notes are no longer doubled when input with a Microsoft Surface stylus
- If Windows screen has a pen, use touch for just pan and zoom gestures
- Mac OS X crash reporter now updated
- Mac OS X update mechanism fixed
- Sounds update mechanism update
XML Import Fixes
- Checks voices before combining notes into a chord
- Braces/brackets/barlines now importing correctly (to the extent that Notion supports them)
- Correctly assigns voices to left hand of grand staff
- Assigns attachments to the correct voice in left hand of grand staff
- Checks whether to retain symbols in chords (e.g., triangle for major)
- Imports chord symbols that have more than six strings
- Bass vocal now not being imported as double bass
- Stem direction or absence of stem is retained
- Scores that have measure numbers reset midscore are now displayed correctly
- Measure repeat symbol retained in XML
XML Export Fixes
- Beaming information
- Exports “maj” in a major 7th chord
- Exports chords correctly that just have 6, 9, 11, or 13 (e.g., C6)
- First and second endings
- Exports chords with more than just root of chord symbol
- Corrected “kind” values for chord export
- Exports rhythm slashes
- Exports chord diagrams
- Stem direction now retained
- Cross-staff beaming now retained
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