User Manual
1.4
Main Components
With Notion, you work with controls and indicators in two main windows,
plus small temporary windows called “dialog boxes.”
Major Notion components (Mac).
A Menu bar: A thin strip providing text-based access to commonly used Notion features.
B Toolbar: A control panel near the top with various buttons, controls, and indicators.
C Score area: The large area where you view scores and edit notes, rests, and other musical markings.
D Mixer: A separate window with controls for you to adjust audio parameters for individual instruments, settings for
mixing eects/VSTs, and sending audio to external equipment.
E Cursor: In the score area, you view the cursor in various shapes, including as a marker across the staves in a system (as
in the picture), as a pointer (also known as the Selection Tool), or with the representation of a symbol you can use to
edit the score (the Music Cursor).
F Entry Palette: A moveable panel with graphics-based access to common Notion score markings.
G Tooltip: When you hover your cursor over a button, control, or Entry Palette item, a small popup box appears with
summary information. In the box, (A) bold text identies the item, (B) text in brackets identies its keyboard shortcut
(if one exists), and, where helpful, (C) a short explanation.
H Channel strip: Each rectangular box in the Mixer represents an instrument or sta in the score.