PreSonus Blog

New Features and Enhancements

• Now you can use your handwriting directly in the score area: Tap the pen icon to go into Handwriting mode. (Handwriting recognition is an in-app purchase.)
• You can still use the handwriting zoom area if you wish; just tap the magnifying glass zoom icon to open. This is handy for writing in large scores or for combining note-entry methods
• New languages: Korean and Italian
• Hide and show resting staves are now available per system
• Multi-measure rest feature has been redesigned
• Ukulele chord diagrams have been added
• If there is a chord built in the fretboard, cursor right now adds it multiple times
• All sound samples have been updated

Fixes

• No longer crashing when entering lyrics and using Undo on the onscreen QWERTY keyboard
• Clear Special now clears accidentals, articulations, and velocities
• iPhone sidebar now does not show in iPad
• No longer crashing if a file is emailed and no email account is set up on the device
• No longer crashing if using Selection tool on iOS 10 when Speak Selection is on in Device settings
• Can now add slur into voice 2 with the Slur tool
• Fixed an issue opening files from Dropbox
• Fixed an issue with Sounds dialog sometimes freezing
• Handwriting now recognized with ties and rests when using two voices
• Handwriting now is recognized after a tie over a barline
• Fixed an issue with handwriting when accidentals are sometimes added near a key signature change
• Scribble delete now refined when handwriting: scribble over the notehead itself to remove a note and all its attachments (articulation, beaming etc)
• Fixed chord looseness not being set correctly
• Better positioning of rests in multi-voice
• No longer crashing with specific instrument notes (claves, cor anglais, oboe duo)
• Sound is no longer distorted when using HDMI out from a device
• Fixed assigning different time signatures to different instruments
• Score view saved with each file
• Double tapping the Pan knob now centers it
• Chord symbols for Fb, Cb, and G# now show as expected when transposing
• Change enharmonic of individual notes in a chord
• Tie now does not disappear when changing enharmonic of two tied notes
• Write hammer-on directly into tab
• Write ghost notes (parentheses), including on grace notes, directly into tab
• Fill With Rests no longer is filling measures that have measure repeat symbols
• Import MIDI file brings in key changes
• 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
• Hide resting staves now does not hide measure numbers or rehearsal marks
• Multimeasure rests now right justify with other systems on a page
• Multimeasure rest bug fixed; in some instances rests would run off the system
• Multimeasure rests no longer 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 cancel 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
• Various MusicXML fixes
• Return to Contents page button added to each page of User Guide