Notion 6.5 Release Notes

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Notion 6.5 Release Notes

NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS

Studio One Integration

Drum tracks can now be transferred from Studio One and are automatically translated into standard drum set notation:

If you're using Drum Patterns in Studio One, be sure to convert to a track before sending to Notion

Chords imported from Studio One's chord track, now playback if slash notation is present

Chords imported from Studio One can now all be selected in one go with Select Special>Select Chord Symbols

Accidentals in imported chords from Studio One's chord track now display correctly

MusicXML updates

MusicXML is a file format that you can use to import and export scores to and from other notation applications. Notion 6.5 has a number of updates to the support of MusicXML not just on new articulations and symbols, but also major improvements in guitar tablature and with voices.

Tablature export and import reworked

Support for .musicxml file extension

Better handling of any missing slur end elements on import, to avoid very long slurs occurring

Voices on grand staff re-worked

When importing with time signatures that have a high numeral (e.g. 11/4), whole measure rests now show as expected

New elements imported:

sf, sfp, fp, sfz and fz

Beaming

Measured tremolos that include tuplets

Very short duration notes (down to 1024th notes)

Fermatas

Harmonic circle symbol / Open circle symbol

Snap (Bartok) pizzicato

Scoop, doit and fall-offt

New elements exported:

Clef changes

Pizz and arco

Pre-bends

sf, sfp, fp, sfz and fz

Mutes

Measured tremolos

Noteheads

Fermatas

Harmonic circle symbol / Open circle symbol

Snap (Bartok) pizzicato

Scoop, doit and fall-off

Tremolo

Entry behaviour changed: e.g. for a fingered tremolo with quarter duration, now insert two eighths before applying the tremolo.

Write this

Select the tremolo and click on the note

Notion displays this

Tremolo can now be clicked onto the first note or in between notes

Stems now can go in either direction in a voice 2 tremolo

Fingered tremolos that include chords now play back as expected

Fingered tremolos with 3-beams now play back, even if there is no sample present

Bug fixed for the second note of a fingered tremolo changing duration if tremolo clicked onto second note (now does nothing)

Bug fixed for a third note being added to an existing tremolo, if a tremolo is clicked onto the second note (now does nothing)

Slash notation

Bass note of chords now play back as expected

Augmentation dot has more spacing when using Jazz Font

Slashes now also playback from chords imported from Studio One

Rules

[Win] User preset techniques can now be inserted as expected with the mouse when there are multiple techniques to choose from

Solo/a2/a3/tutti expressions added to Rules Editor

Erroneous note-offs now not sent when automatic note-offs' is in a rule

Selection

[Win] Ctrl+click now works like right click so context menu can be accessed even in the absence of a mouse (if for example using a Windows tablet and attached keyboard)

[Win] Fix events not being able to be unselected on touchscreen

[Win] If palette is hidden, then right click no longer cancels selection

[Win] If palette is hidden, then right clicking on a note no longer auditions the note

General Fixes

Superfluous File>Page Setup' dialog removed page sizes changed via Score>Full Score Options, or Score>Parts Options

Pasting into a different voice now does not remove any existing rest at the beginning of the destination measure

Default video framerate is now 24fps so that the toolbar time display shows as expected (can be changed from Attach Video dialog)

[Win] Notion's Studio One launcher now also looks for Studio One 4

Updated Studio One image in the Send to Studio One' dialog

Fix for text getting cut off in Instrument Settings in German language only

[macOS] Progression files (.prog) now opening as expected with Notion 6

User Guide and Shortcuts pdf updated with Jazz articulation shortcuts

[Win] Fix occasional issue in some Print/Print to pdf/Save scenarios

[Mac] Issue fixed if an instrument is double clicked in the Change Instrument' dialog

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