User Manual
10.18
Notion enables users to quickly add glissandi (gliss.) and portamento (port.). With
Notion, you can use either technique on any pitched instrument.
Glissando and portamento.
You must have the origination note and the destination note already in
your score before you can add a gliss. or a port. mark.
1. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
2. Press Shift + L:
> Once for a gliss. mark on your Music Cursor.
> Twice for a port. mark on your Music Cursor.
These marks are also available on the Entry Palette, by hovering over the middle pane .
3. Position your Music Cursor anywhere between the two notes involved.
4. Press Enter or click your mouse.
» Notion adds the text, with a connecting line below it, into your score. The software sounds the intervening notes
when you play or perform the score.
5. To gliss between hands on a grand sta, Enter the gliss and the upper and lower notes in one sta rst. Then select
the last note of the gliss and press Shift + X
NOTE: Notion also oers gliss up and gliss down text markings you can add to your score
from Express Entry, but these do not alter the sound in Notion playback.
Glissando and Portamento