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 who are 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.

New Features

Handwriting recognition, Powered by MyScript™

• Write directly into score area
• Use the optional handwriting zoom area for large scores
• Supported items: write notes, rests, chords, articulations, measure lines, accidentals, time signatures, measure lines, ledger lines, slurs, ties, clefs, voices

Transfer data to and from PreSonus Studio One

• Send and receive audio or note data with Studio One 3.3 or later
• Share on the same computer or with any computer on the same network
• Send VST instrument data and presets

Content

• New Lakeside Pipe Organ from Soundiron with five stops and pedals
• New Olympus Micro Choir from Soundiron with “ooh” and “aah” sounds
• Notion Harpsichord: a 1972 instrument, made by Robert Goble & Son, Oxford
• Notion Score Library: a collection of over 200 public domain scores in the Notion format, including orchestral and piano works

Layout controls

• View/Hide Layout Handles
• Respace measure widths
• Respace staves / systems
• Hide and show empty staves
• Angled hairpins
• Hairpin opening angle
• Drag hairpins vertically
• Enter chords anywhere
• Articulations can be dragged in any direction
• Rests can now be dragged vertically
• Multi-measure rest feature completely redesigned
• Part names can be added automatically, and also edited directly

Notation

• Mid-staff instrument and transposition change
• Mid-staff transposition change in same instrument
• Change enharmonic of individual notes in a chord
• Write hammer-on directly into tab
• Write ghost notes (parentheses), including on grace notes, directly into tab
• Paste lyrics from an external source
• Many MusicXML enhancements for seamless transfer with other notation apps
• New Basic instrument category in Score Setup to add generic treble/bass clef staves

Audio/Video

• Metronome now available in playback
• Preroll record feature
• Video window control buttons: Frame Advance, Add Hitpoint, Play, Stop, and Video Volume
• Export audio as .mp3
• More FX slots: eight per channel
• MIDI over ReWire: Route MIDI from Notion to your DAW in real time

System Requirements

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.8.5 or later
• Intel Core™ 2 Duo processor (Intel Core i3 or better recommended)
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
• 8GB free hard-drive space

Windows

• Windows 7 x64/x86 SP1 +platform update, Windows 8.1 x64/x86, Windows 10 x64/x86
• Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD® Athlon™ X2 processor (Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon X4 or faster recommended)*
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
• 8GB free hard-drive space