New Features in Notion 6

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 in Notion 6

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