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PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional and Notion 6 Bundle eLicense Mac PC iOS Tablet DAW

PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional offers an integrated approach to recording music, from tracking to mixing to mastering and distribution. Featuring a flow oriented, drag-and-drop interface, the software is built for intuitive use, speed, and efficiency. The software includes the fully-licensed and integrated Melodyne Essential pitch correction plug-in, Red Book CD burning, and video playback and sync.

This latest version provides some substantial updates including chord tracks, ARA 2.0 support, updated pattern and drum editors, and updates to PreSonus's virtual instruments; Impact XT, Sample One XT, and Presence XT. Chord tracks feature harmonic editing, which makes it easier to prototype a song, allowing for flexibility in transposing, key modulation, and chord substitution. Audio Random Access (ARA) was developed in conjunction with Celemony for seamless integration with Melodyne Essential. The latest ARA 2.0 gives Melodyne and 3rd party plug-in developers access to the chord track and key signature used in harmonic editing.

The drum and pattern editors update the traditional step sequencing method by placing patterns inside of tracks. No longer will you have to open a sequencer within a sequencer, as all pattern data lives inside tracks on your arrangement page, allowing for fast and effective editing with the same ease as standard MIDI and audio tracks. What's more is that there are several per-step options including velocity editing, 10 levels of repeat for stutter effects, a probability algorithm that adds variety by selectively dropping out notes, and even per-step automation for all automatable parameters.

Studio One 4 is robust enough for the most complex productions, delivering full audio and MIDI recording and editing capabilities with 41 native effects plug-ins, 5 virtual instruments, and over 30GB of bundled content. There are no limits on track count, plug-in instantiations, or editing features. Studio One Professional 4 is compatible with any ASIO, Windows Audio, or Core Audio compliant audio interface, including the entire line of PreSonus interfaces.

What's New

Arrangement / Editing
- Chord track
- Real-time chord reharmonization of audio and instrument tracks
- Intuitive chord selector
- Automatic chord detection
- Real-time chord input from MIDI device
- Song key signature with detection
- Chord transpose
- ARA 2.0 support
- Expanded Send to Notion option for lead sheet creation
- Ripple edit mode
- Relative bar offset for songs
- Remove gaps for events
Music Editor
- Drum editor
- Drum and melodic patterns and variations
- Patterns saved in musicloop
- Automatic mapping (Impact XT)
- Alternate note coloring schemes
- Sync option for editors
- Select notes… options
- Improved note event options (humanize, length, velocity, delete notes)
- Multiple macro toolbars (page selection)
- Improved multi-editing
- Preserve and restore zoom states
Import / Export
- AAF import / export (supports Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and others)
- Import song data
User Interface
- Alternative light color scheme
- Additional appearance presets
- Updated mix console design
- Track/channel notepads
Content
- New sound set Impact XT Kits and Sounds (1.8GB)
Other
- External plug-in scanner (VST2, VST3)
- MP3 encoding in all versions

Updated Instruments

Impact XT
- Updated graphics
- 8 pad banks
- 32 outputs (16 stereo, 16 mono)
- Color option for pads
- New 24 dB zero-delay feedback filter
- Filter drive and punch controls
- Filter soft (clipping) mode
- Pad and individual sample editing
- New stack mode for layering samples on a pad
- Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
- Trigger quantization
- Sample choke with 32 choke groups
- Reverse sample playback
- Sample level normalization
- Increased pitch envelope range (±48 semitones or 8 octaves)
- Improved sample navigation
- Pad Follow mode for remote navigation
- Drag-and-drop pad swapping
- Drag-and-drop multiple samples at once
- Optional auto-slicing on sample import (shift)
- Send to new Impact shortcut in audio context menu
- Drag-and-drop sample import from Sample One XT and Presence XT
- Import and export of multisample files and .soundx containers
- Eight user-selectable color themes
Sample One XT
- Updated graphics
- Record page with live sampling
- Samples from any hardware input, send, output, other instrument
- Auto-slicing mode creates new samples automatically with adjustable gate
- Global and individual (sample) edit modes
- FX section: modulation, delay, reverb, gate, EQ, distortion, pan
- Expandable keyboard
- Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
- Sample snap to zero crossing
- Sample crossfade
- Waveform slicing option
- Sample trim option
- Sample sustain, release, and ping-pong loop modes
- Graphical envelopes with adjustable attack, decay, release curve shapes
- Increased pitch envelope range (±48 semitones or 8 octaves)
- Alternative trigger modes: normal, one-shot, toggle
- Visual play cursor in waveform view
- Sample reverse playback
- Sample level normalization
- New 24 dB zero-delay feedback filter
- Filter drive and punch controls
- Filter soft (clipping) mode
- LFO random (sample+hold) mode
- Master volume control
- Adjustable voice limit
- Import and export of multisample files and .soundx containers
- Drag-and-drop export to Impact XT
- Eight user-selectable color themes
Presence XT Editor
- Sample snap to zero crossing
- Reverse playback option
- 1000 choke groups

Main Features

Single-window work environment
Drag-and-drop functionality
Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
Native 64-bit resolution and support for up to 384 kHz audio
Integrated Melodyne pitch correction
Single and multitrack comping
Folder tracks with grouping and busing
Track List with presets and mixing Console link
Transient detection and editing
Drag-and-drop groove extraction
Multitrack MIDI editing
Track Transform (freezing capability)
Event-based effects
Automatic delay compensation
Advanced automation
Audio processing 64-bit / 32-bit
Easy-to-use sidechain routing
36 native audio effects (64-bit) and 5 virtual instruments
Intuitive MIDI-mapping system
Real-time audio time-stretching and re-sampling
Control Link MIDI-mapping system
Wireless transfer of audio from Capture for iPad
Import Notion stems with instrument names, mix, and tempo info preserved
Compatible with any ASIO, Windows Audio, or Core Audio compliant audio interface
Works with key commands from Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic, or create custom key commands
Integrated mastering suite with automatic mix updating, Red Book CD burning, and digital release
Over 4000 included audio and music loops
Score video and edit audio for film with video track
QuickTime video playback and sync
Integrated SoundClouddashboard for sharing music online
MP3 import and export
Audio Units, VST2, VST3, and ReWire support
Arranger Track with Scratch Pads to quickly build and rearrange songs and experiment on alternate ideas
Build custom sounds with Multi Instrument and Extended FX Chains
Presence XT sampler with 15+ GB sound library and EXS, Kontakt, and Giga support
Mai Tai polyphonic, analog modeling synth with character morphing, modulation matrix, and zero-delay feedback filters
Note FX (Arpeggiator, Chorder, Repeater, Input Filter) to assist composition and add dynamism to virtual instrument tracks
Updated content browser with drag-and-drop functionality and keyword based musical search; find, preview, and drag-and-drop tempo-matched backing loops, samples, effects, instruments, presets, and more
Integrated online PreSonus Shop provides easy in-app access to more professionally produced content
User-definable Track/Mixer sync and resizable, color-coded faders
User-definable smart tools
Macro controls make complex instrument or FX combinations easy to use
Studio One Remote for iPad
Automation curves
Native Fat Channel plug-in from StudioLive AI mixers includes low-pass filter, gate, compressor, parametric EQ, and limiter
Updated AudioBend real-time time stretching and pitch shifting with Elastique Pro 3.0
Customizable, high-dpi UI with multitouch support for Windows and Mac

Effects Plug-Ins

Ampire XT - amplifier-modeling
Analog Delay - tape-delay emulation
Arpeggiator - Note FX MIDI arpeggiator with pattern sequencer
Auto Filter - envelope filter
Beat Delay - tempo-synchronized delay
Binaural Pan - stereo panning effect
Bitcrusher - lo-fi / down-sampling processor
Channel Strip - dynamics processing and equalizer
Chorder - Note FX MIDI chord processor
Chorus - mono/stereo chorus
Compressor - mono/stereo variable compressor
Console Shaper - mix engine FX analog console emulation
Dual Pan - independent stereo panner
Expander - mono/stereo expander
Fat Channel XT - native version of Studiolive fat channel
Flanger - mono/stereo flanger
Gate - noise gate with MIDI trigger
Groove Delay - multitap and tempo-synchronized delay
Input Filter - Note FX MIDI filter for velocity and key range
IR Maker - impulse response creation tool
Level Meter - sizable peak/RMS meter
Limiter - mono/stereo limiter
Mixtool - phase and ms utility
MixVerb - mono/stereo reverb
Multiband Dynamics - mono/stereo multiband compressor/expander
OpenAIR - convolution reverb
Phaser - multistage all-pass filter phaser
Phase Meter - phase-correlation analysis
Pipeline - hardware insert (use external hardware processor, with scope and delay compensation)
Pro EQ - 7-band parametric EQ
RedLightDist - distortion processor
Repeater - note FX delay with transpose
Room Reverb - mono/stereo room reverb
Rotor - rotary speaker emulator
Scope - full-featured oscilloscope with sidechain input
Spectrum Meter - frequency analyzer
Tone Generator - multi-waveform signal generator
Transformer - note FX transformer for pitch and controller data
Tricomp - 3-band compressor
Tuner - chromatic instrument tuner
X-Trem - mono/stereo tremolo

Virtual Instruments

Mojito - monophonic subtractive synthesizer
Mai Tai - polyphonic virtual analog synthesizer
Impact XT - multichannel drum sampler
Sample One XT - drag-and-drop integrated live sampler
Presence XT - sample playback instrument
Support for third-party sampler format (EXS, Giga, Kontakt)

Bundled Content

Melodyne Essential
Prime Selection Loops and Sounds
Presence XT Core Library - 15GB
Impact XT Core Library
Acoustic Drum Kits and Loops
Producer Loops and Kits (BigFishAudio, Sample Magic, MVP Loops)
Electronic Audioloops
Electronic Kits and Musicloops
Studio One FX
Studio One Impulse Responses
Studio One Instruments Vol 1
Studio One Musicloops 1+2
Studio One Expansion
Uberschall Impact Drums
Vengeance Sound
Voodoo One Synth Soundset

Native Effects™ Plug-ins	Type	Studio One Prime	Studio One Artist	Studio One Professional
Ampire XT	Guitar amplifier modeler	Basic	•	•
Analog Delay	Tape delay emulator		•	•
Arpeggiator	Note FX arpeggiator with pattern sequencer			•
Auto Filter	Envelope-controlled filter		•	•
Beat Delay	Tempo-synched delay	•	•	•
Binaural Pan	Stereo panner and imager		•	•
Bitcrusher	Lo-fi and downsampling processor		•	•
Channel Strip	Compressor / expander / equalizer	•	•	•
Chorder	Note FX chord processor			•
Chorus	Three-voice chorus with stereo width	•	•	•
Compressor	Full-featured RMS compressor with side-chain		•	•
Console Shaper	Mix Engine FX analog console emulation			•
Dual Pan	Independent L/R channel panner		•	•
Expander	Downward expander with sidechain		•	•
Fat Channel XT	Native version of StudioLive Fat Channel		•	•
Flanger	Flanger with tempo sync	•	•	•
Gate	Noise gate with MIDI trigger outp		•	•
Groove Delay	Multi-tap delay with tempo sync and tap filtering			•
Input Filter	Note FX filter for velocity and key range	•	•	•
IR Maker	Impulse response creation utility			•
Level Meter	Resizable, multi-scale loudness / level meter		•	•
Limiter	Brickwall peak limiter		•	•
Mixtool	Channel utility		•	•
MixVerb™	Basic reverb	•	•	•
Multiband Dynamics	Multiband compressor/expander			•
Open AIR	Convolution reverb			•
Phaser	Multistage allpass-filter phaser	•	•	•
Phase Meter	Phase analyzer		•	•
Pipeline	External-processor insert			•
Pro EQ	Seven-band parametric equalizer		•	•
RedlightDist™	Analog distortion emulator	•	•	•
Repeater	Note FX delay with transpose			•
Room Reverb	Room simulator		•	•
Rotor	Rotary speaker emulator		•	•
Scope	Digital oscilloscope		•	•
Spectrum Meter	Spectrum meter		•	•
Tone Generator	Multi-waveform signal generator		•	•
Transformer	Note FX transformer for pitch and controller data			•
Tricomp™	Basic multiband compressor		•	•
Tuner	Chromatic instrument tuner	•	•	•
X-Trem	Tremolo/autopanner with tempo sync and step sequence modulation		•	•

Total Native Effects™ Plug-ins		9	30	41

Virtual Instruments	Type	Studio One Prime	Studio One Artist	Studio One Professional
Mojito	Monophonic subtractive synthesizer		•	•
Mai Tai	Polyphonic virtual analog synth	(Add-on)	•	•
Impact XT (NEW)	Multichannel drum sampler		•	•
Sample One XT (NEW)	Drag-and-drop integrated live sampler		•	•
Presence XT	Sample playback instrument	•	•	•
	Support for third-party sampler format (EXS, Giga, Kontakt)			•

Total Virtual Instruments		1	5	5

Bundled Content	Size	Studio One Prime	Studio One Artist	Studio One Professional
Melodyne Essential	120 MB		Trial	•
Prime Selection Loops and Sounds	785 MB	•	•	•
Presence XT Core Library	15 GB			•
Impact XT Core Library (NEW)	1.8 GB		•	•
Acoustic Drum Kits and Loops	1.5 GB			•
Producer Loops and Kits (BigFishAudio, Sample Magic, MVP Loops)	3.76 GB			•
Electronic Audioloops	3.17 GB			•
Electronic Kits and Musicloops	294 MB			•
Studio One FX	546 MB			•
Studio One Impulse Responses	1.19 GB			•
Studio One Instruments Vol. 1	155 MB	•	•	•
Studio One Musicloops 1+2	900 MB		•	•
Studio One Expansion	39 MB		•	•
Ueberschall Impact Drums	68 MB			•
Vengeance Sound	880 MB			•
Voodoo One Synth Soundset	900 MB		•	•

General	Studio One Prime	Studio One Artist	Studio One Professional
Start page	•	•	•
Song page	•	•	•
Project page (Mastering, DDP, Red Book CD burning, digital release)			•
Elegant single-window work environment	•	•	•
Powerful drag-and-drop functionality	•	•	•
Native high-DPI and cross-platform multi-touch user interface	•	•	•
Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, and FX channels	•	•	•
Unlimited buses		•	•
Integrated Melodyne pitch correction		Trial	•
Single and multitrack comping	•	•	•
Arranger Track	•	•	•
Scratch Pads			•
NEW: Chord Track and Harmonic Editing			•
Editable Folder Tracks		•	•
Track display list with presets, linkable to console channel display	•	•	•
Content browser with search, user tabs, connections to the Internet, and Preview Player	•	•	•
Transient detection with editable markers		•	•
Drag-and-drop groove extraction		•	•
Multitrack MIDI editing	•	•	•
NEW: Instrument and Drum Editor	•	•	•
NEW: Drum and melodic patterns for pattern-based arranging	•	•	•
Multitrack Track Transform (advanced freezing capability)	•	•	•
Event-based effects		•	•
Macro Toolbar (create and use command sequences)		•	•
Automatic latency compensation	•	•	•
Dropout Protection for native low latency monitoring	•	•	•
Advanced automation	•	•	•
VCA faders		•	•
Audio-processing resolution (floating-point)	32-bit	32-bit	64-bit
Easy sidechain routing	•	•	•
Stunning virtual instruments	Presence XT only	5	5
NEW: Easy-to-use drag-and-drop live sampler (Sample One XT)		•	•
Import sampler formats (EXS, GigaSampler, Kontakt, SoundFont)			•
Multi Instruments			•
Channel Editor with macro controls			•
Extended FX Chains with parallel processing			•
Control Link (most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available)	•	•	•
Real-time audio time-stretching, resampling, and normalization	•	•	•
Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interfaces	•	•	•
Use Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, or Sonar keyboard shortcuts—or create your own	•	•	•
Integrated mastering suite with automatic mix updating, DDP import/export, Red Book CD burning, and digital release			•
Send Song or individual tracks to Notion (audio + note data)	•	•	•
Export to SoundCloud™		•	•
NEW: AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) import and export			•
Import Song data			•
Video playback and sync			•
MP3 encoding and decoding	•	•	•
Third-party plug-in support (AU, VST2, and VST3 plug-ins and ReWire applications)		(Add-on available)	•

PreSonus Studio One specs

Mac System Requirements	OS 10.11 or later (64-bit only) Intel Core 2 Duo processor (Intel Core i3 or faster recommended) 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended) Internet connection (needed for installation and activation) Monitor with 1366 x 768 resolution (high-dpi monitor recommended) A multitouch-enabled monitor with TUIO support is required for touch operation 40 GB hard-drive space
Windows System Requirements	Windows 7 (SP1 + platform update), Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 x64 Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon X2 processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X4 or faster recommended) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2 processor (Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon X4 or faster recommended) 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended) Internet connection (needed for installation and activation) Monitor with 1366 x 768 resolution (high-dpi monitor recommended) A multitouch-enabled monitor with TUIO support is required for touch operation 40 GB hard-drive space
Tablet Compatibility	iPad Pro, iPad 2, iPad mini, and later iOS 8 or later Compatible with Microsoft Surface 3 (and later) and Surface Pro 2 (and later) Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or later (Windows RT not supported) 2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB RAM or more recommended) Tablet must be x86-compatible (not ARM-based)

UPC: 673454007415

PreSonus Notion 6 Mac Windows Notation Software eLicense

This product is delivered by download. We have an excellent relationship with Presonus and should receive the license code to complete your order within 24 hours. However, if you're ordering after 6:00PM PDT weekdays or on weekends, we'll process your order the next business day. Once your codes are emailed to you, there is no returns or refunds. This is due to copyright laws.

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.

Your music, in the studio or on the go.

Create a score in Notion for Mac or Windows PC; then continue to work on it on your Windows tablet or iPad. Or capture inspiration on the fly with your iPhone and transfer to your computer for in-depth editing. No other notation software can do this. With Notion and Notion for iOS you can seamlessly create, send, and open scores between Mac, Windows, and iOS devices and continue to work on your score, anywhere, anytime! No matter which platform you use, you get the high-quality playback sounds for which Notion is famous. Plus Notion 6 is a native 64-bit application on all platforms, so you get fast, efficient, and stable performance too.

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.

To top it off, Notion 6 comes with the Notion Score Library, a collection of public domain scores in the Notion format.

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, where you can now send audio, note, track, VST and score data directly between the applications. The workflow between Notion 6 and Studio One 3 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.

When it’s time to deliver, Notion has you covered. Print stunning scores and export PDFs. Export standard MIDI files or MusicXML files for collaborating with people using other notation applications. And deliver fully mixed WAV files or MP3s of your entire performance or individual parts. You can even upload directly to SoundCloud® directly from Notion to share your compositions.

Highlights of Notion 6

Traditional Notation or Tablature – Fast and Easy

Easily compose, play back, and edit music
Perform scores using Notion as a live instrument and save your performance
Create a score on a Mac®, Windows® computer or tablet, and continue to edit on iPad® or iPhone® and vice versa
Interactive Entry Tools: Keyboard, Fretboard, Drum Pad, Chord Library (including custom chords)
Cross-platform handwriting recognition, powered by MyScript™ for written entry
Sequencer overlay to see notation and MIDI data on the same staff
Windows touchscreen support… just use your finger or stylus and tap
Work with Notion in your native language with options for Sim. Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish

Create and Perform with Unmatched Sound Quality

Best playback of any notation product, with samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, Roy and Victor Wooten, Neil Zaza, Soundiron, and others.
Full guitar and bass articulations in playback
Custom rules editor for instrument specific articulations
Increase your sonic palette with additional expansion sounds from PreSonus or your favorite VST Instruments and libraries.
Process audio with included PreSonus® Native Effects Limiter, Compressor, and Pro EQ plug-ins or other VST plug-ins.
Mix with a DAW-style console with up to 8 individual buses
Live performance options include play, tap, vamp, repeat, fade, playback dynamics, and navigate with Heads Up Display

Serious Studio Integration

Transfer audio and note data between Notion™ and Studio One® anywhere on your network
ReWire support (host and slave), with real-time audio and MIDI transfers to a DAW
Set music to film with advanced video capabilities
Compose to picture with the video window
Import video in a variety of formats: MP4, H.264, MPEG, MOV, AVI, M4V, and 3GP on Mac and Windows, plus WMV on Windows
Native 64-bit support
Retina (Mac) and High-DPI (Windows) support for high resolution displays

Deliver Professional Scores and Polished Performances

Print entire scores, individual parts, or lead sheets with chords and lyrics
Layout control tools: drag notes, measure lines, time signatures, and more, while avoiding accidental respacing
Show/hide parts independently by system for maximum readability
Import/export files to/from Finale® and Sibelius® via MusicXML or other apps via Standard MIDI
Export scores as PDF files
Export WAV or MP3 audio files
One-click Bounce All export of individual staves or mixed buses.
Share music with fans instantly via SoundCloud™

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

Computer system requirements:

Below are the minimum computer-system requirements for Notion™ for Mac and PC.

Mac

Mac OS^® X 10.8.5 or later
Intel^® Core™ 2 Duo processor (Intel Core i3 or better recommended)
1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
8GB free hard-drive space

Windows

Windows^® 7 x64/x86 SP1 +platform update, Windows 8.1 x64/x86, Windows 10 x64/x86
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

As a commitment to constant improvement, PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc., reserves the right to change any specification stated herein, at any time, without notification.

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