User Manual
7.4
Notion makes it easy to add instruments quickly. In Score Setup, you are free to mix and match Notion sounds with
other sources, but for brevity, the procedures below discuss using only Notion
sounds. Details on using other sound sources appear later in Chapter 11.
Step One: Create a New Score
Begin by creating a new score, either a blank one or from a template. You view Score
Setup with two groups of options appear on the right. By default, Notion is selected
in the bottom group and families of Notion instruments appear in the upper group.
Step Two: Add Instruments
As you do with the Entry Palette, hover your mouse over a instrument family name
to see a pop-up menu of available instruments. If you want to lock a menu open,
click the family name once. The menu of options stays open and the other family
names turn gray. To lock open a dierent instrument family, simply click a dierent
name. Clicking the family name a second time returns you to default operation.
When you click an instrument name, a sta appears in the score area for that
instrument. Simply proceed to click other instruments to rapidly add more
staves to the score. Begin with as many as you want: you can always add (or
remove) more instruments later. Initially, the staves for the instruments you
add appear in standard orchestral-score order, but you can change the order you view them in systems.
After hovering over Brass, clicking on Trumpet.
TIP: If you nd it’s dicult to t all the instruments you want to use (they “run o” the bottom of the page), you can
either select a larger hardcopy page size (under File > Page Setup) or try reducing the font size for this score.
Assign Initial Instruments