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New in Notion 6.4 - Quick Overview
New in Notion 6.4
Further integration with PreSonus Studio One: for more details, check our Notion 6.4 blog post at presonus.com
New checkbox “Link to metadata” in Score>Add Title/Header/Footer. This unlinks a new text box from others of the
same style meaning you can create multiples of e.g. copyright notices. This is useful for e.g. creating long copyright
notices (such as those required for SMP Press)
Preset xes: for EWQL Full instruments, and LA Scoring Strings (for LASS, please redownload the preset from your
Audiobro account)
Surface Pen: some xes for Windows 10 and the Surface Pen
Plus over 20 xes and enhancements to paste action, langauge xes, video, and more - see the whole list here:
https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html
New in Notion 6.3
Export for SMP Press: File>Export for SMP Press, is a one-click process that creates an mp3 audio le and a single PDF
that contains full score and all parts in score order. These les can then be uploaded to SMP Press from Sheet Music Plus,
a self-publishing portal for composers.
Community Presets: Brand new space to upload, share, maintain, and download presets for popular 3rd party VST
instruments as well as access to Notion’s built-in presets. Find it at https://github.com/notionmusic/presets
New Preset Folder: Your custom presets can be saved here, and will populate Score Setup, just like a built-in Notion
instrument
Preset Expressions: New Preset Expressions to add any expressions in your libraries that are not found by default in
Notion.
Rules Editor: New rule test for “No articulation”; “Palm mute” and “slap” added to Techniques
Plus over 20 xes and enhancements to Studio One interop, MIDI import, audio devices, and more - see the whole
list here: https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html
New in Notion 6.2
Slur Control: Click a slur and drag a control point to adjust: start and end points; absolute position; the curve itself
Enhanced Studio One interop: now you can update audio and note data in existing Studio One and Notion documents.
Send tracks from Studio One, edit in Notion, and send them back, updating the original song.
Tempo tracks: Notion now sends and receives tempo tracks with Studio One, including all time signature and tempo
changes. If many tempo changes are received, Notion displays them as abbreviated metronome marks (which can be
easily selected and changed to full metronome marks, or simply hidden with right click>Tempo)
Brass Band: New Brass Band (UK style) template added. Go to File>New From Template>Brass Band. Some instruments
require the Brass Bundle Expansion Pack for playback.
New icons for drumpad: New pencil icon added to Drumpad to better enable/disable Steptime; new audition button to
hear the notes when building a ‘chord’, before entering on the page
Repeat previous entered chord: Tap the Enter key in Steptime to insert the same chord multiple times - this has always
worked this way for the fretboard, but now also works for the onscreen keyboard and drumpad.
Plus over 40 xes and enhancements to handwriting, Studio One interop, MIDI and MusicXML, glissandi - see the
whole list here: https://api.presonus.com/notion6/change_log.html
New in Notion 6.1.1
Touch: Notion now recognises whether a touch is nger/capacitive stylus or digitizer stylus (Windows), plus you can now
use the Microsoft Surface Pen button to bring up context menu
Importing drum les: when importing MIDI drum les, Notion uses GM mapping to put the notation in the expected
place, including with crosshead notes for cymbals
Drumpad cymbals: when using the onscreen drumpad, Notion now writes cymbals with crosshead notes