What's new in notion 6.x, New in notion 6.3, New in notion 6.2 – PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) User Manual

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New checkbox “Link to metadata”

in Score>Add Title/Header/Footer . This unlinks a new text box from others of the

same style meaning you can create multiples of e .g . copyright notices . This is useful for e .g . creating long copyright

notices (such as those required for SMP Press)

Preset fixes

: for EWQL Full instruments, and LA Scoring Strings (for LASS, please redownload the preset from your

Audiobro account)

Surface Pen

: some fixes for Windows 10 and the Surface Pen

Plus over 20 fixes and enhancements to paste action, language fixes, video, and more - see the whole list here:

https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html

New in Notion 6.3

Export for SMP Press:

File>Export for SMP Press, is a one-click process that creates an mp3 audio file and a single PDF

that contains full score and all parts in score order . These files can then be uploaded to

SMP Press

from Sheet Music Plus,

a self-publishing portal for composers .

Community Presets:

Brand new space to upload, share, maintain, and download presets for popular 3rd party VST

instruments as well as access to Notion’s built-in presets . Find it at

https://github.com/notionmusic/presets

New Preset Folder:

Your custom presets can be saved here, and will populate Score Setup, just like a built-in Notion

instrument

Preset Expressions:

New Preset Expressions to add any expressions in your libraries that are not found by default in

Notion .

Rules Editor:

New rule test for “No articulation”; “Palm mute” and “slap” added to Techniques

Plus over 20 fixes and enhancements to Studio One interop, MIDI import, audio devices, and more - see the whole

list here: https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html

New in Notion 6.2

Slur Control:

Click a slur and drag a control point to adjust: start and end points; absolute position; the curve itself

Enhanced Studio One interop:

now you can update audio and note data in existing Studio One and Notion documents .

Send tracks from Studio One, edit in Notion, and send them back, updating the original song .

Tempo tracks:

Notion now sends and receives tempo tracks with Studio One, including all time signature and tempo

changes . If many tempo changes are received, Notion displays them as abbreviated metronome marks (which can be

easily selected and changed to full metronome marks, or simply hidden with right click>Tempo)

Brass Band:

New Brass Band (UK style) template added . Go to File>New From Template>Brass Band . Some instruments

require the Brass Bundle Expansion Pack for playback .

New icons for drumpad:

New pencil icon added to Drumpad to better enable/disable Steptime; new audition button to

hear the notes when building a ‘chord’, before entering on the page

Repeat previous entered chord:

Tap the Enter key in Steptime to insert the same chord multiple times - this has always

worked this way for the fretboard, but now also works for the onscreen keyboard and drumpad .

Plus over 40 fixes and enhancements to handwriting, Studio One interop, MIDI and MusicXML, glissandi - see the

whole list here: https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html

New in Notion 6.1.1

Touch:

Notion now recognises whether a touch is finger/capacitive stylus or digitizer stylus (Windows), plus you can now

use the Microsoft Surface Pen button to bring up context menu

Importing drum files:

when importing MIDI drum files, Notion uses GM mapping to put the notation in the expected

place, including with crosshead notes for cymbals

Drumpad cymbals:

when using the onscreen drumpad, Notion now writes cymbals with crosshead notes

Studio One interop:

Studio One application launcher added to the ‘Send to Studio One’ dialog

Positioning articulations:

you can now select an articulation and use cursor arrow keys to position them - for fine

positioning, use Shift+arrow

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