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Bring musical inspirations to life with the blazingly fast and intuitive Notion™ 6 music composition and performance environment. Compose when and how you want and even enter music with your own handwriting. Take projects to the next level with deep integration with Studio One®. Hear and perform music with gorgeous samples by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. Deliver polished scores faster than ever before, from complete film orchestrations to simple lead sheets and guitar tab.
Whether you are an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, music educator, or student, you'll find Notion 6 to be the easiest-to-use and best-sounding notation software on the market today. Notion 6: Redefining music notation.
New in Notion 6.
The new features and enhancements in Notion 6 represent the most popular requests from the Notion user community and feedback from users of other notation platforms who are looking to make the switch.
Notable improvements include: cross-platform handwriting recognition; new layout control and features for professional score output; drag to respace measures and systems; new instruments from Soundiron; new video window controls for faster scoring to picture; the new Notion Scores library, with over 100 great works; updated Music XML support for seamless transfer with other apps; MP3 export; MIDI over ReWire for improved integration with leading digital audio workstations; and unprecedented side-by-side workflow integration with Studio One Artist or Professional on the same computer or between multiple computers on the same network.
Hear your music played by world-class musicians.
Notion gives you by far the best playback of any notation product out of the box, including the unmatched realism of orchestral and Steinway samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, guitar samples performed by Neil Zaza, bass samples by Victor Wooten, and drum samples by Roy "Futureman" Wooten. All were painstakingly recorded by top engineers using the best equipment. You get a wide array of dynamics, articulations, and performance techniques. New instruments in version 6 include the Notion Harpsichord along with the Lakeside Pipe Organ and Olympus Micro Choir sounds from our friends at Soundiron. But that's just the beginning of Notion's playback features.
Interactive tools make entry fast and intuitive.
Enter notes with ease using Notion 6's interactive fretboard, keyboard, and drum pad. It's the fastest and most convenient way to capture pitches, drum parts, and guitar fingerings. You can even customize the number of guitar strings on the fretboard and the order of entry for each voice for the drum pad. Lyrics can be entered in directly or pasted from any digital source. Want to get your hands on your score? Notion 6's new Powered by MyScript™ handwriting-recognition feature for Mac, Windows, and iOS lets you write directly into the score, automatically converting your input into digital notation.
Choose chords from a generous chord library and create your own chords. It's simple to enter the chord name or voicing you want to appear in your score. Choose from standard chord symbols and fretted chord symbols and design custom chord symbols and diagrams. Chords remain on the fretboard for repeated entry, and the software can recall recently used chords. Chord symbols can be attached anywhere over empty measures, meaning lead sheets can be created in no time!
Capture MIDI parts and edit them with your score.
Recording MIDI performances and editing MIDI data is easy in Notion. Viewing MIDI and standard notation together makes the experience unique and intuitive. Choose keyboard, guitar, or drum entry, and dial in exactly how Notion will follow your playing. Enter in real time or in step time, then view your MIDI performance data in Notion's Sequencer Staff.
Better yet, use the Sequencer Overlay, which allows you to see notation and MIDI performance data on the same staff. Using drag-and-drop, edit each individual note's velocity, duration, start point, and end point. For precise values, double-click each note and customize the note's numeric values directly. Notion combines the power of MIDI sequencing with the clarity of standard notation in a unique and powerful way.
If you compose to picture, Notion 6 is your new best friend.
Film, video, and TV composers have specialized needs that just start with a synchronized video window. Notion's video window includes a timecode view, and you can add hit points and select the volume, frame rate, and start time. Transport buttons let you control your score from the video window with fine frame control. Unlike other scoring software, Notion can handle all of the most important modern video file formats, including MP4, WMV (Windows only), H.264, MPEG, MOV, AVI, M4V, and 4GP on Mac and Windows. And Notion is the only major scoring program that handles video natively on 64-bit Windows.
Don't just play your music: perform it, too.
Notion lets you play back a score following metronome marks, but you can also perform your scores live, continuously controlling tempo and velocity. Jump in and out of repeats, vamp measures, fade in and out, and navigate live from your computer keyboard or a MIDI controller.
Powerful Mix Engine by the folks Who Defined Digital Mixing
PreSonus changed live sound with our StudioLive® digital mixers. We turned the production world on its ears with our Studio One digital audio workstation. While you might not expect advanced mixing capabilities to appear in ordinary notation software, Notion 6 is far from ordinary.
Get truly professional mixes with up to eight stereo buses through the built-in software mixer. Import an audio file to mix with your score or to transcribe from. Process your sounds through eight effects inserts with reverb, guitar-amp simulator, and EQ, compressor, and limiter plug-ins drawn from PreSonus' Studio One DAW. You can also use your favorite VSTs. Yes, Notion is a professional notation program-but it's clearly much more!
Serious studio integration.
While Notion exceeds all other notation software with its mix capabilities, you can take compositions to the next level by connecting Notion to a leading DAW through superior realtime audio/MIDI streaming over ReWire. Or create a music production powerhouse by pairing Notion 6 with Studio One 3 (or newer), where you can now send audio, note, track, VST and score data directly between the applications. The workflow between Notion 6 and Studio One is unprecedented, as both applications can run side by side on the same computer or on any computers on the same network.
Deliver professional scores and polished performances.
While many Notion layout and notation choices are made automatically so you can focus on creating music, sometimes you need to fine-tune your score's appearance for easy reading and a professional look. Notion 6 provides new layout handles that let you drag notes, measure lines, time signatures, and more, while avoiding accidental respacing. Show and hide parts independently by system and show/hide resting staves for minimal wasted space and maximum readability. Even drag entire systems up and down on the page to adjust the spacing; when you let go, Notion rejustifies the layout.
RELEASE NOTES
Support for Studio One v5
- Compatible with the new Score Editor in Studio One v5.0. See updated User Guide for all info (Chapter 15.7)
- New options in Notion to send either Score data (to version 5.0 or later), or legacy MIDI data transfer (to Studio One 3.3 or later)
- [Win] Notion will now launch the latest version of Studio One that it finds on the local machine
- [Win] Fix for sending to Studio One with non-ASCII characters in filename
- 'Send to Studio One' dialog selects 'This Computer' by default if available
- In the 'Send to Studio One' dialog, other computers on the network are only listed once if found via different network interfaces
- Chords with accidentals in the bass note in Studio One's Chord Track are now displayed correctly when sent to Notion (e.g. A/C#)
PreSonus Sphere
- Compatible with PreSonus Sphere membership
- If Studio One or PreSonus Hub is present with activated subscription, Notion will automatically activate with Sphere on opening
- Sphere membership can be manually deactivated in Studio One or PreSonus Hub application - if it has been deactivated then Notion will fall back on standalone licence if one existed before Sphere, or Demo mode if not
- You can manually Update the licence timer in Notion's Software Activation menu. This is useful to prevent Notion requiring activation if you are offline at a critical moment (e.g. using Notion live on stage, or you plan on using it on a long journey)
Handwriting
- Handle incomplete ties when handwriting in Continuous view
- Fix clef and key signature issues when handwriting in Continuous view
Languages
- [Win] Installer fixes for font and font size
- [macOS] Korean/Chinese/Japanese fonts now showing as expected for EULA during install
- Now uses original language expression text in Chinese localization (e.g. arco, pizz)
- On Windows, 'Groß' and 'Klein' now used in Transposition dialog, not 'Dur' and 'Moll' when in German
- Occasional crash fixed when Italian language is set and Notion is offline
Documentation
- Updated User Guide, including chapter on Studio One 5 integration (Chapter 15.7)
- Updated Quick Reference Guides in all languages
- Updated EULA
General
- Occasional crash when opening mixer fixed
- Notion now sends Tempo Track during MIDI export when being controlled by ReWire
- Notion cursor now does not return to start position on stop in ReWire session
- [Win]Installer updated
- [Win] Dialogs now have resizing controls only if they are actually resizable
- [macOS] Fix for missing security entitlement for Synsopos
- Note that Soundcloud export is currently unavailable, as the API used is no longer supported by Soundcloud
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD® Athlon™ X2 processor (Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon X4 or faster recommended)*
- 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
- 8GB free hard-drive space
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