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Notion 6.1.1 Maintenance Update—click “Check for updates” in Notion to download and install 6.1.1!

New:

• Notion now recognizes whether touch is finger/capacitive stylus or digitizer stylus (Windows)
  
• Microsoft Surface Pen now brings up context menu with button
• When importing MIDI drum files, Notion uses GM mapping to put the notation in the expected place
• When using the onscreen drum pad, Notion now writes cymbals with cross-head note heads
• Studio One launcher added to the ‘Send to Studio One’ dialog
• Use cursor arrow keys to position articulations (and shift+arrow for fine tuning)
• The enharmonic tool (Shift+E) now also works with attached chord symbols
• Score>Dynamic Parts is now current score order, not order of creation
• End key now navigates to end of score (as Home does, to the start of a score)
• Notion now has the facility for network installs to copy preferences from a system level – this saves a lot of time in the classroom every time a new user logs on to particular machine. For more information about PreSonus’ Unlimited Site Licenses for education, contact musiceducation@presonus.com

Fixes:

Sounds

• Harpsichord sound is now fixed
• Organ and Chorus sounds retuned. (Download the keyboard installer from your my.presonus.com account and install. Restart Notion. You may also need to force Notion to rescan the folder – go to Preferences>Audio>Locate and reselect the sounds folder)
  Release sound working better for short notes (an issue particularly noticeable with organ staccati)
• Drumset with unmeasured tremolo now responds to hairpins

Studio One interop

• Fix when exporting keyswitch data from Notion to Studio One – go to Tools>Use Rules and setup a rule with Keyswitches set to “Automatically send note-offs”
• Studio One launcher has been added to Send to Studio One dialog
• User is prompted to save, if closing after Studio One file transfer and no other changes have been   made
• More space for text in Studio One dialog when in German
• Note durations now reflect articulation (e.g. staccato) when sending note data to Studio One

MIDI / MusicXML

• Verse number is now being properly recognized when importing MusicXML
• Fix occasional issue on MusicXML Export with hairpins
• User is prompted to save, if closing after MusicXML or MIDI file import and no other changes have been made
• Note durations now reflect articulation when exporting as MIDI
• Changing MIDI channel in Change Instrument dialog now works as expected
• Sequencer staff controller data now outputs on expected channel, not just channel 1
• When MIDI recording in with multi channel VSTi’s, sequencer staff now does not reset all events to Channel 1
• MIDI note length and velocity shortcuts now work if sequencer overlay is enabled

Rules Editor

• Fix when using Duration Change in Rules
• Rules Editor dialog size now persistent when closing/reopening (Mac and Win)
• If having issues with smooth playback when using expression on external VSTi’s or MIDI ReWire, choose a different expression channel to the Notion hairpin map in the Rules Editor. For VSTi’s without velocity crossfade, you can also use the hairpin anchor in the Rules Editor – see Hairpin Anchor in the User Guide

Video

• Video window on Mac no longer blank when re-shown
• Fix show/hide video during playback on Mac

Notation

• Bb and Eb instruments now go to the correct enharmonic key if in C#minor
  If Transpose MIDI is checked then Bb and Eb instruments are now spelling as correctly in step time
• Option added to Staff Settings, to show circles around whole/half notes in tablature (default is off)
• Electric Bass now does not convert to treble clef when tab is turned off / standard notation shown again
• Flags now show on unbeamed cross-staff notes
• Fix stems not lining up on cross-staff chords
• Fix accidentals sometimes hiding on cross-staff notes
• When changing stem direction of beamed notes, it now does not affect the entire measure
• Measures now lay out as expected when empty
• Fix adding unwanted 11^th and 13^th notes to chord, when using chord type-in tool

General

• Clear Special now does not now remove Rules sets or harp tuning diagrams
• Adding interval below with Ctrl+Numpad, now fixed on Windows
• Scrolling in continuous view with a Windows tablet now redraws correctly
• Continuous view margin now does not clear when top staff is only partially visible
• Mixer window size now persistent when closing/reopening (Win only)
• Text better formatted and images fixed in MIDI Device Commands window
• More space in Preferences window (Windows only)