User Manual
11.2
In Notion you can add quite a number of staves in a very short period of time. There is no software-
imposed limit to the number of staves you can have in a score: you can add as many as you need.
Practically speaking, there is a limit set by the available memory in your computer.
Open Score Setup
With Notion you open Score Setup to quickly add a new instruments to a score. To open it you:
8 Click the button in the toolbar, or
8 Go to the Menu bar and select Score > Setup, or
8 Use the keyboard shortcut of Windows: Ctrl + T; Mac: + T.
The score area darkens, palettes of options appear on the right, and existing
staves display buttons to the left of measure one.
Score Setup.
Step One: Select a Sound Source
The rst step is to select the source of instrument sounds you want. To do this, click one of the
options in the palette of buttons at the bottom right. You only see those options that are installed
on your computer. Notice as you click the various options, the contents of the upper palette of
buttons change. You are more than free to mix dierent sources in the same score.
8 Notion Instruments: This is the default when you rst Enter Score Setup. These close-mic’d sounds are in stereo
with no eects (so you can completely control the reverb or other eects you add using the Mixer). Once you click
this option, you can proceed to Step Two.
8 If the sound source is one of these specic VSTi libraries: Vienna Symphonic Library, East West Quantum Leap
(EWQL Symphonic Orchestra), or IK Multimedia’s Miroslav Philharmonik you have the option of using our no-
programming presets by clicking the Library’s name and proceeding to Step Two. If you have one of these libraries
installed and it is not listed, then add it to the VST Manager, and return to this procedure.
8 If you will use a VSTi library that is not named in the previous bullet – or you want to use one of the libraries named
in the previous bullet but with your own VSTi template – you complete a dierent procedure, discussed in VST
Instruments and detailed in Add Multi-Channel Track, all in Chapter 9.
Add Staves