Facebook Twitter instagram pinterest youtube. Search Search for: Search. Cart 0. Log in to Reply. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Only members can comment. Remember Me. Take the simple example of an arpeggiated chord where every note is sustained to the end of the bar. This is not 'polyphonic' in any musically interesting sense, but notating it correctly requires the ability to indicate new notes being played while existing notes are being sustained. Because notes within a voice can't overlap, you would actually need up to six voices of polyphony as implemented in Progression or G7 to notate a six—string arpeggiated chord properly.
This is not a huge problem for pop and rock guitar, because parts are more likely to be presented in tab format. However, it's a fairly major obstacle to notating classical guitar pieces in Progression. G7's four polyphonic voices at least provide enough independence that more or less any playable piece can be notated, albeit in rather inelegant fashion you'll typically end up using two or more G7 voices to represent what is, in a purely musical sense, a single voice.
Progression's two voices are simply not enough. It also makes the entry of drum notation more awkward than it needs to be, but I won't go into details. The box chord tool generates a list of suggested chord shapes based on your choice of root note. The other main element of guitar—related notation is chord boxes. To create a chord box in Progression, you select the chord—box tool in the palette at the right—hand side of the screen, then click at the appropriate place in the score.
When you do so, you'll see a palette at the bottom of the screen where you can select the tonic note of the chord, its bass note if different , whether it should be major, minor, diminished and so on, and any extended notes that should be included. Your selection is then reflected in a list of chord shapes at the right—hand side, from which you can choose. It's also transferred to the fretboard to the left of the editing window, where you can change it if you wish.
When you've finalised the chord, you press Enter and move on to the next one. This is a fairly intuitive system — or would be, if it worked properly. Unfortunately, I encountered several bugs and design flaws that made it more frustrating to use than it should have been.
The worst of these was that selecting any sharp note as the tonic simply resulted in an empty list of chord shapes, regardless of what else was selected. Every time I wanted to use even a basic F—sharp chord in a score, for instance, I had to define it manually using the fretboard, or copy and paste a previous instance.
Finally, the interaction between the fretboard, the chord box and the chord naming is not as helpful as it might be. There are also a few obvious ways in which the chord—box functionality could be made more useful.
It would be handy to have some kind of temporary palette to store chord shapes that recur throughout a song, while, in a program that makes such a big deal out of its ability to play back guitar parts realistically, it would have been nice if box chords in a score could have been played back too. The ability to add lyrics to a score is something that will be important to most songwriters. It's perfectly possible in Progression, although I have to say that this is an area where the program could have been easier to use.
To begin entering a lyric, you select the appropriate tool from the palette on the right—hand side and click on the note where you want it to start. You then enter the first note or syllable, before pressing Tab to move onto the next one. This works well enough, but it would be more intuitive if the space bar could be used instead of the Tab key. It would also be nice if there was some way to import lyrics from text files.
When you've created and checked your score, you will naturally want to print it out. The basic quality of Progression's printed scores is pretty good, which is lucky, because there's not much you can do to change things if the default settings don't work out. Among the things that music publishers and engravers might want to do, but can't, are moving the elements of the score around, adding text except in a few fixed places, changing the spacing of the staves, and specifying page breaks at convenient musical positions.
There's also no neat way to create individual parts from a multi—instrument score, as far as I can tell. Nor is it possible to export Progression scores in any format that a typical graphics package can understand, although export as MusicXML is supported. Looking back over this review, I seem to have made quite a lot of complaints about things that Progression can't do, or doesn't do in the way I'd expected.
I raised these concerns with Notion Music, and I'm pleased to report that many of the bugs are currently being addressed. And with respect to the feature set, it could be argued that the limited functionality helps to streamline the package for its target audience by taking out features that such users won't need.
Certainly, Progression presents a much less intimidating learning curve than other notation packages, including G7. The basic process of putting notes onto lines is commendably simple and trouble—free, and as long as your notation requirements are fairly basic and narrowly guitar—oriented, Progression may well be able to meet them with a minimum of mucking about. For instance, if you're a songwriter needing to present basic outlines of your material to a band, or a secondary school teacher looking to introduce students to scoring, it's definitely worth considering.
It also provides a good range of the special symbols that are used to indicate techniques peculiar to electric guitar, so it might also appeal to those who need to do accurate transcriptions of twiddly guitar solos, with the much—trumpeted sample library offering useful potential for checking them.
There are some really nice touches here, such as the string—bend symbols that have moveable breakpoints, allowing you to shape the look and sound of the bend. Jump in and out of repeats, vamp measures, fade in and out, and navigate live from your computer keyboard or a MIDI controller. To top it off, Notion 6 comes with the Notion Score Library, a collection of public domain scores in the Notion format.
Learn about the Notion Score Library. Here are just a few ways you can use the Notion Score Library:. While you might not expect advanced mixing capabilities to appear in ordinary notation software, Notion 6 is far from ordinary.
Get truly professional mixes with up to eight stereo buses through the built-in software mixer. Import an audio file to mix with your score or to transcribe from. You can also use your favorite VSTs. Yes, Notion is a professional notation program—but it's clearly much more! Notion 6 provides new layout handles that let you drag notes, measure lines, time signatures, and more, while avoiding accidental respacing. Even drag entire systems up and down on the page to adjust the spacing; when you let go, Notion rejustifies the layout.
Print stunning scores and export PDFs. Or create a music production powerhouse by pairing Notion 6 with Studio One 3 or higher , where you can now send audio, note, track, VST and score data directly between the applications. The workflow between Notion 6 and Studio One is unprecedented, as both applications can run side by side on the same computer or on any computers on the same network.
Compose in Studio One and send note data to Notion for editing and printing parts. Export the audio or note data for each track and import it into a copy of Notion 6 running anywhere on the network. Better yet, Notion 6 can look for instances of Studio One anywhere on your network, automatically open a new project, and send the audio files or note data, track data, and score data straight to the DAW, retaining instrument name, score order, pan and gain settings, rehearsal marks, initial time signature, and metronome marks.
Want to transcribe in Notion and have a reference track? With Notion 6, you can send audio from Studio One to any instance of Notion on your network or on the same machine, setting up a new score and attaching the audio to it. As the stereo stream from the secondary device arrives at Bus A in the mixer, you can alter gain, panning, effects, and so on, just like any other instrument.
Send multiple MIDI tracks and buses from Notion to any ReWire-equipped application and drive your instruments directly from notation, including articulations. When Notion is acting as the device application to Studio One, for example it follows the commands of the host application. Notion can send up to 32 streams to the ReWire host, start and stop playback, and audition new notes. In fact, you may even forget that Notion is in this mode until the host begins a playback operation.
In addition to individual and educational licensing options, Notion is also available as part of PreSonus Sphere , the ultimate toolkit for the modern composer. Deep integration with Studio One lets you start your score in Studio One and send it to Notion and vice versa. No matter how you compose, PreSonus Sphere has you covered. On top of these creative tools, PreSonus Sphere members are also given Cloud collaboration tools and 30 GB storage, a library of exclusive master classes and live streams, and Expert Chat, with much more added continuously—all for a low monthly or annual membership.
This is an essential upgrade that all current users will want. It places Notion squarely among the ranks of true professional programs, yet it remains the easiest program to learn and use. From sounds of the London Symphony Orchestra to stellar Steinway piano samples to the sounds of virtuoso bassist, Victor Wooten, playback quality of Notion 6 alone makes this software worth the investment and a whole lot more.
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