User Manual
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Notion provides sounds for guitar vibrato (two speeds) and multiple sounds of pushing in/out
a whammy bar (an electric guitar eect popular in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s produced by pressing
a bar that detuned all strings according to the amount of pressure applied to a bar).
In Edit mode, place the mark on your Music Cursor in any of the following ways
(for the Entry Palette, hover over the fth pane from the right):
Technique Entry Palette Graphic Keyboard Shortcut
Vibrato, standard V (1x)
Vibrato, wider V (2x)
Whammy bar vibrato V (3x)
Whammy in & return Shift + V (1x)
Whammy out & return Shift + V (2x)
Whammy out & stop Shift + V (3x)
Whammy in & stop Shift + V (4x)
Position your Music Cursor at the note/chord aected and either click your
mouse or press Enter. These marks will be heard in playback.
Use in Combination
Some very interesting eects can be produced by serially combining one or more eects. For example, once you
place a vibrato on a part, a whammy bar eect you add gets automatically placed at the end of the vibrator mark.
Control Whammy Eects
Notion provides a number of ways to control the timing and amount of detuning of whammy eects. When
you click anywhere on an existing whammy bar mark in the score, orange boxes appear at key transition
points. Drag an orange box to the left or right to control timing. Drag an orange box up or down to control
amount of detuning. When done, click anywhere in the score area to remove the orange boxes.
After a short vibrato, making a whammy bend happen earlier and more out of tune (right) than defaults (left).
Vibrato and Whammy Bar