NOTION3 FULL FEATURE LIST
User Interface

  • Clean, streamlined user interface with great emphasis on clarity, workflow and score readability
  • LCD Display with Rehearsal menu, Timecode and tempo
  • Perfomance Display with rehearsals, timecode, measures and performed notated tempo
  • Timeline strip with point and click and GoTo measure navigation
  • Tooltips
  • Score Entry Palette docked and floating neatly organizes and contains all score symbols and expressions allowing you to quickly and easily find
        anything ou want to add
  • 24 fret Interactive Guitar Fretboard for Score Entry and Guitar chord/diagram insertion
  • New Pro-audio Mixer UI with visual and numerical entry, mixer groups, signal meters and peak indicators
  • Master channel meter on the toolbar with peak indication
  • Color coded mode dependent playback marker
  • Quick start screen on launch


    • Score Editing

  • Automatic positioning of score elements – never have to worry about aligning hairpins, dynamics, articulations.
  • Note entry with Mouse, Keyboard and/or MIDI device
  • Step Time and Real Time MIDI entry
  • MIDI entry on grand staff with split point
  • Optimized editing functions – clear, clear special, mass add articulations, duplicate etc...
  • “Cuts” functionality supported in score and playback
  • Customizable Accel and Rit markings
  • Partial (“expandable”) measures (add more or less notes than the Time Signature requires)
  • Pickup measures
  • Linked Tab / Notation
  • Type-in Tab
  • Bends, Holds, Bend-releases customizable and playing back
  • Tremolo Bar symbols and Vibrato
  • Guitar Diagrams generated for every chord symbol with support for custom tuning and number of strings. All 12 positions per chord, which means you get
       12 diagrams per chord instead of one.
  • Edit and customize guitar diagrams on the fretboard
  • Guitar chords transpose with transposition
  • Left and Right hand fingerings
  • Palm mute, let ring, slap, pull-off, hammer-on and all other guitar techniques from PROGRESSION
  • Click and drag beam adjustment
  • Custom Beaming
  • Custom beaming patterns for Time Signatures
  • Short score feature – up to 4 different nstruments on a grand staff, with individual dynamic handling
  • Alternate noteheads – X, diamond, circles, crossed, etc..
  • Ghost notes functionality supported in playback
  • Breath Comma with customizable playback
  • Caesura with customizable playback
  • Quickly change note rhythms with a key combo
  • Chord library supporting click-in chord symbols with three representation styles: default, minimal and symbol
  • Type-in Chord symbols
  • Click and drag to position dynamics, notes, beaming, text and other score elements
  • Unique to NOTION - Sequencer Staff which records MIDI in sequencer style on a regular staff. Records all MIDI data such as velocity and continuous controllers
  • Edit Sequencer Staff notes with arrow keys
  • Overdub Sequencer Staff notes and MIDI CC controlers
  • Convert to notation from sequencer staff
  • Copy / Paste to Ntempo staff
  • Crash recovery
  • Grace notes, cue notes, tacet notes
  • Hide and Reveal score Items
  • Dynamics customization
  • Enahrmonic Respell
  • Type-in Expressions feature
  • Flip Stems
  • Fill with Rests
  • 4 voices per staff
  • Add voice 1+2 simultaneously
  • Harp Tuning, respected in playback
  • Hidden Rests
  • 8va/8vb/15ma/15mb marks
  • Arpeggio marks
  • Harmonics
  • Coda, DS al Segno, Segno etc.. marks
  • Customizable barline groups, bracket groups, brace groups and tempo groups
  • Lyrics with multiple verses
  • Instrument changes with individual mixer channels
  • Custom measure numbers with letters support
  • Multi-bar rests
  • Quick chord construction
  • Switch voices
  • Repeats and endings with proper playback and export
  • Sfz, sffz and other special articulations and dynamics
  • Fingered tremolo
  • Guitar Slides
  • Portamento
  • Easily create tuplets or turn existing notes to tuplets
  • Chord summary at top of page
  • Drum Library

    • Score Layout

  • Pages View - Across and Down
  • Continuous View
  • 3 Different UI Themes - Default, Performance (Dark) and White
  • Concert / Transposed view toggle
  • Dynamic Parts
  • Unique, In-document Score Setup with point and clicking adding, removing an moving staffs.
  • Score Headers and Footers
  • Hide/Show Staffs
  • Jazz Font
  • Link measures
  • Tempo groups, bracket groups, customizable system breaks, measures per system ec..
  • Voice colors
  • “What you see is what you get” printing

    • Playback and Compatibility

  • Bundled library of over 10GB of orchestral and non-orchestral sounds
  • London Symphony Orchestra, Roy Wooten, Victor Wooten, Neil Zaza, and more
  • Audio based playback engine without the need of a third party player
  • Automatic mapping of samples to score symbols - what you see is what you hear for all instruments with all articulations and techniques
  • Up to 4 different and independent audio instruments attached to a grand staff for superior short score playback functionality.
  • VST and VSTi support
  • Bundled VSTi presets for VSL, EWQL, GPO and Miroslav libraries
  • Use VSTi preset instruments from multiple libraries, each playing back with unique playback mappings
  • Copy and paste between, NOTION and VSTi preset instruments and preserve articulations dynamics and balance
  • Bundled Amplitube X-Gear and CSR Hall Reverb from IK Multimedia
  • Bundled Drum groove library
  • ReWire Host and Slave functionality
  • Discrete channel out per mixer channel strip
  • Customizable playback rules
  • Playback altering of dynamics
  • Glissando and Portamento playback with respect to harp tunings
  • 4 mappable MIDI out ports
  • Pro-Audio mixer with 4 inserts, 4 buses, power pan, solo/mute, signal meters and peak indicators
  • Full MIDI recording on a sequencer staff
  • Import MIDI into sequencer staffs
  • Import an Audio file
  • Standard Drum staff mappings playback
  • Selecting staffs to quickly solo in playback
  • Playback of 1st and 2nd ending with 1st or 2nd only functionality
  • Note Audition of entry and selections
  • Guitar, Bass and Drums articulations
  • Chord symbols playback, respecting rhythm slashes.
  • Fermatas, caesuras, breath marks, repeats, accel, and any other tempo or score marking is faithfully reflected in playback and fully customizable
  • Piano pedals, shortcut slashes, l.v. etc. all playback true to their intent
  • Swing playback with adjustable “weight” and individual staff assignments
  • Vamps and repeats playback
  • Default rules for playback of MIDI and VST instruments not covered in presets
  • Velocity Overdub for more natural expressive dynamics
  • VST Manager

    • Live Performance
  • Unique Performance mode giving you full control over the live performance of your piece. Unmatched live performance features unique only to NOTION
  • Navigate your score through measures, beats, rehearsal marks and easily move between sections.
  • Conduct your score directly from your keyboard or MIDI device with customizable MIDI performance commands
  • NTEMPO staff for great expressive control - use any tempo subdivision or your own rhythm to precisely control the performance of the score.
  • Record your performance and save it.
  • Edit a saved performance session.
  • Live Play! - play any instrument in the score with your MIDI device during NOTION regular playback or in performance mode. Also respects instrument changes.
  • Control the dynamics of your score live, through the velocity of your MIDI device
  • “Nudge” tempo slower or faster with the arrow keys, during playback
  • Jump through cuts, skip repeats in real time while performing your score
  • “Auto-pilot “ resume at written tempo or resume at captured tempo feature.
  • Performance HUD showing performing tempo, written tempo, measure, beat, Timecode and Rehearsal

    • Open / Import / Export
  • Open NOTION, PROGRESSION, PROTÉGÉ and NOTION Conducting files
  • MusicXML
  • MIDI
  • Audio Wav