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NOTION combines a full-featured music notation system with interpretive algorithms
linked to a proprietary playback engine that offers samples of thousands of individual notes and articulations played by the
London Symphony Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
In addition to cross-platform compatibility (Mac/PC), NOTION 1.5 includes MIDI entry, Music XML import, and
NotionPlayer conducting tools. NotionPlayer allows the user to conduct the software to accompany live performers,
making NOTION a versatile and practical live performance system.
Features
- Fast and simple interface for entering music
- PC keyboard/mouse entry and keyboard shortcuts
- MIDI keyboard entry, real-time, stretch-time, and step-time
- MusicXML: import from Finale, Sibelius, and score scanners
- Up to 64 staffs, and two voices on each staff
- Fast, anti-aliased screen rendering and refresh
- Automatic note and expression alignment
- Standard and non-standard key signatures
- Complex time signatures
- User-defined beaming
- Expressive and realistic playback of:
- Dynamics, crescendo, diminuendo
- 15 different articulations, slurs
- Tempo changes
- Grace notes, arpeggios
- Pizzicato/arco
- Pedal marks
- Fermatas
- Quarter tones
- Sample-based playback of orchestral instruments
- No external software, hardware or MIDI assignment
- Low-latency playback in DirectSound and ASIO
- Reverb from natural, recorded decay
- NTEMPO: real-time “conducting” of the score
- Replay of NTEMPO performance
- WAV file creation, faster than real-time playback
- Instrument audio mixer: mute, solo, balance, pan, and decay
- Double-voice playback of different instruments
- Global transposition and tuning
- Plays repeat signs, multiple endings, D.S. al coda, etc.
 Purchase Information
$599 MSRP, $399 Academic/Theological/Nonprofit
Requirements
Windows
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, or later
- Sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0
- 512 MB RAM
- 2 GHz Pentium processor or equivalent
- 3 GB of free hard disk space
- Hard drive with transfer rate of at least 25 MB/sec (recommended - NOTION supports 1000 sample polyphony)
Macintosh
- System Requirements Not Yet Announced
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