Notion 6

Bring musical inspirations to life with the blazingly fast and intuitive Notion 6 music composition and performance environment. Compose when and how you want, and even enter music with your own handwriting. Take projects to the next level with deep integration with Studio One. Hear and perform music with gorgeous samples by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. Deliver polished scores faster than ever before, from complete film orchestrations to simple lead sheets and guitar tab. Whether you are an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, music educator, or student, you’ll find Notion 6 to be the easiest-to-use and best-sounding notation software on the market today. Notion 6: Redefining music notation.

What's New in Notion 6
The new features and enhancements in Notion 6 represent the most popular requests from the Notion user community and feedback from users of other notation platforms looking to make the switch. Notable improvements include: cross-platform handwriting recognition; new layout control and features for professional score output; drag to respace measures and systems; new instruments from Soundiron; new video window controls for faster scoring to picture; the new Notion Scores library, with over 100 great works; updated Music XML support for seamless transfer with other apps; MP3 export; MIDI over ReWire for improved integration with leading digital audio workstations; and unprecedented side-by-side workflow integration with Studio One Artist or Professional on the same computer or between multiple computers on the same network.

Hear Your Music Played by World-class Musicians
Notion gives you incredible playback right out of the box, including the unbelievable realism of orchestral and Steinway samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, as well as guitar samples performed by Neil Zaza, bass samples by Victor Wooten, and drum samples by Roy “Futureman” Wooten. All were painstakingly recorded by top engineers using the best equipment, with a wide array of dynamics, articulations and performance techniques. New instruments in version 6 include the Notion Harpsichord, along with the Lakeside Pipe Organ and Olympus Micro Choir sounds from Soundiron. But that’s just the beginning of Notion’s playback features.

Your Music In the Studio or On the Go
Create a score in Notion for Mac or Windows PC; then continue to work on it on your Windows tablet or iPad. Or capture inspiration on the fly with your iPhone and transfer to your computer for in-depth editing, something you can't do with any other notation software. With Notion and Notion for iOS you can seamlessly create, send and open scores between Mac, Windows and iOS devices, and continue to work on your score, anywhere, anytime. No matter which platform you use, you'll get the high-quality playback sounds for which Notion is famous. Plus, Notion 6 is a native 64-bit application on all platforms, so you get fast, efficient and stable performance, too.

Interactive Tools Make Entry Fast and Intuitive
Enter notes with ease using Notion 6’s interactive fretboard, keyboard and drum pad. It’s the fastest and most convenient way to capture pitches, drum parts and guitar fingerings. You can even customize the number of guitar strings on the fretboard and the order of entry for each voice for the drum pad. Lyrics can be entered in directly or pasted from any digital source. Want to get your hands on your score? Notion 6’s Powered by MyScript handwriting-recognition feature for Mac, Windows and iOS lets you write directly into the score, automatically converting your input into digital notation.

Capture MIDI Parts and Edit Them With Your Score
Recording MIDI performances and editing MIDI data is easy in Notion. Viewing MIDI and standard notation together makes the experience unique and intuitive. Choose keyboard, guitar or drum entry, and dial in exactly how Notion will follow your playing. Enter in real time or in step time, then view your MIDI performance data in Notion’s Sequencer Staff. Or use the Sequencer Overlay, which allows you to see notation and MIDI performance data on the same staff. Using drag-and-drop, edit each individual note’s velocity, duration, start point and end point. For precise values, double-click each note and customize the note’s numeric values directly. Notion combines the power of MIDI sequencing with the clarity of standard notation in a unique and powerful way.

Serious Studio Integration
On top of Notion's exceptional mix capabilities, you can take compositions to the next level by connecting Notion to a leading DAW through superior real-time audio/MIDI streaming over ReWire. Or, create a music production powerhouse by pairing Notion 6 with Studio One 3, where you can send audio, note, track, VST and score data directly between the applications. The workflow between Notion 6 and Studio One 3 is unprecedented with the ability to run both applications run side by side on the same computer or on any computers on the same network.