User Manual

4.19
If you have a MIDI keyboard, you have the option of playing anything you want – with any instrument sounds
Notion can reach. With Live Play you can try out a solo on any available instrument (even from non-Notion
sources such as VSTi and MIDI Out) as a solo – or with accompaniment as you play any score. All you do is
select a part in a score, and everything you play will sound for that instrument. If the keyboard is velocity
sensitive, then you can also control volume levels as you play: the harder you strike, the louder the sound.
If you do not hear the instrument, check to ensure your MIDI keyboard is sending MIDI information to Notion through a
dierent channel than the one you are using for NTempo. You identied this channel in Chapter 1: Set Up MIDI Devices.
Play Alone
You can play an instrument’s sounds, completely free-form.
1. Open any composition that has a sta with the instrument you want (any sound source).
2. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
3. Click on any measure in the score for the instrument you want to play so a light yellow box appears at that spot in
an editing marker.
4. Play anything on the MIDI keyboard.
» Notion supplies the sound samples of the instrument you clicked for the keys you press. If you press a note that is
outside of the available samples for the instrument, you hear nothing during the key press.
5. You are free to click any measure assigned to a dierent instrument to change to a dierent instrument sound.
Play Along With a Score
It’s fun to play your choice of instrument with a Notion score supplying the accompaniment.
1. Open any score.
2. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
3. Add a sta and assign the instrument you want. Or, if there is an empty sta already in the score, you can use that.
NOTE: If the sta you select contains notes, then you will hear the sta’s written notation during play, which is not
what you want for soloing. But you are free to select a notated sta if this is exactly what you want (say, for doubling
or experimenting with ideas for a second voice part).
4. Click on any measure in the score for the instrument you want to play so a light yellow box appears at that spot in
an editing marker.
5. Click in the score where you want to start. Then either press the Spacebar or click the button.
» While you hear Notion play the score you are completely free to play anything (within the range of samples
available) on the MIDI keyboard.
6. You are free to click any empty sta assigned to a dierent instrument if you want to change to a dierent
instrument sound.
MIDI Keyboard: Live Play