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Notion has been updated to version 6.1! Check out the full changelog below. This is a free update to all Notion 6 owners. To get it, just launch Notion. It will check for updates and download automatically.

Notion 6.1 Changes:

New

• New keyboard workflows
• Enter notes and chords with QWERTY keyboard in Step time (Using a,b,c,d,e,f,g)
• Create and extend range selections with keyboard shortcuts
• Navigate around measures, staves and systems with keyboard shortcuts
  Selected items (e.g. articulations, dynamics) can be nudged with cursor keys
• Echo note entry and selection
• Echo note entry and echo note selection now sounds notes on all methods of note entry and any time a note is highlighted. To change, go to Preferences>General and uncheck. (Use the A key to Audition any time)

Fixes

Interop fixes

• If Notion is a ReWire slave, show courtesy icon in toolbar
• ReWire and Network discovery removed as are now no longer exclusive in Preferences
• Allow audio render, even if Notion is a ReWire slave
• Note data import from Studio One improved
• Presence Grand Piano name variants now import into Notion as grand staff

Video fixes

• Smoother start of video playback and improved sync (Mac)
• Fix crash on macOS 10.12 when playing video
• Fix video not refreshing when resizing / re-positioning (Win)
• Fix closing video window resizing main score window (Win)
• Fix video window focus after clicking video volume change (Win)
• Fix video window not being able to be reopened after closing (Mac)
• Fix video audio continuing if video window is closed during playback (Mac)
• Stop button on video window now shows as expected on macOS 10.12
• Video window volume now works as expected when using Windows Default sound

Handwriting fixes

• If you tie a note across a bar line you can now enter any notation using the handwriting tool in the following measure.
• If there is a tie or rest in one voice, it is now ignored if writing in a different voice
• Rests are now better aligned vertically when using more than one voice in a measure
• If writing ledger lines, or adding any other items that fall outside the normal staff boundaries, then Notion will add them to the correct staff – either by way of attachment (e.g. stems) or following previously entered items.
• Fix handwriting occasionally freezing in specific measures

General fixes

• Now easier to select an articulation within the score
• Notehead shortcut (x) now doesn’t default duration to quarter note in step time
• Notion icon on non-Retina Mac, and non-High DPI Windows updated
• Korean translation fixes
• Notion will now not crash when sending multiple CC data
• MIDI Export now follows repeats, endings, and DS/DC flow
• MIDI Export now includes all time signatures and key signatures
• Clear Special now fixed and clearing articulations, accidentals, or intensities
• Tenor voice now defaults to Treble 8vb clef
• Score view now persistent, and saved with file
• Slurs now working in voice 2
• The range of Treble and Bass clef instruments is now centred, so that the onscreen keyboard doesn’t default to low C
• Clicking the metronome button in the toolbar now brings up a menu letting the user choose to turn on or off the metronome in either playback or record.
• Velocity Overdub now working in Windows
• Notion will now not crash if you paste voice 4 into the bass clef of a grand staff
• MusicXML export fixes (up/down bow, fingerings)
• MusicXML now exporting beaming as expected on Windows
• Tooltip for metronome added
• Global tuning slider now showing whole number when typing into the tuning text box
• Jazz text now showing correctly (Win)
• Jazz fonts now appearing in font selection dropdown (Win)
• MIDI note entry echo now not interrupted by changing the metronome preference
• Print all Parts to pdf now available (Win)
• Ties now not removed when changing notes enharmonically
• Ties now not removed when pasting a section of music that contains a time signature change
• Now when dragging systems, all following systems are updated during the drag
• Now when dragging staves, all following systems below are updated during the drag
• Layout handles only now only affect the part being edited, rather than all parts
• Now when pasting in to a different voice, slurs go into the correct voice
• When hiding stems, flags also hide
• User Guide updated

Rules

• Add a rules test for no techniques present (normale/arco/senza sord)
• Con sord / with mute rule now working as expected
• Hairpin CC data now follows channel changes (as was only working in channel 1 before)