Let me ask the question a different way, because I've yet to get a clear answer. I'm running a 32 bit Vista machine with 3Gig of memory and a 2100Mhz processor. I'm unable to run the "Chinese Dance" demo by simply replacing the staff instruments with Miroslav instruments without stuttering...

See this Wikipedia link for information on the overtone series. Roughly, you can assign the "strength" of a harmonic interval based on where it appears in the harmonic series. So (in order of appearance) you have: * The octave * A perfect fifth * A major third Put these together, and you h...

See this link as well as this link for more details. Diminished chords are interesting animals. From a jazz perspective, the viiº can be considered a rootless V7 chord. In reference to the overtone series, the diminished chord lacks both a perfect fifth and a major third, making it a very dissonant ...

NOTION 3 supports automatic guitar strums by using slash notation and guitar frames. :D But it seems to play each strum as a down strum (roughly, a fast arpeggio from the top string down). A guitarist wouldn't normally do that - they'll alternate between down and up strums. NOTION 3 allows up and d...

It really pays off to learn each clef - or at least the bass clef - on it's terms, instead of trying to translate is from the treble clef. If you have to "transpose" the bass clef, I think it's easier to think of it in terms of a "shifted" treble clef: ShiftingClef.jpg That is, t...

In general, if you can arrange the notes as a stack of diatonic thirds, that'll often be the preferred solution. The presence of a perfect fifth is also strong indicator of the real root. But there are other factors. The {G, B, F, G, B, E} could be heard as a Em(maj7), but it's not likely. With the ...

Thanks for the explanation. I understand the convenience, but it breaks the paradigm. Plus, these options aren't available if you've got a library which actually has corresponding samples. For example, the Vocal menu under GPO shows Choir , and for Miroslav it has has Mixed Choir . Male Choir and Fe...

Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you save the file as MusicXML instead? MIDI is a pretty awful format for working with notated data. MusicXML is supported by most of these programs, and NOTION3 reads it as well.

I get the same thing.

If they aren't available in the sample set, they should be presented as greyed and italicized, but that's not the case with the vocal samples:

Your "strange chord" is a Cmaj7 chord in open position. You'll find it as the default Cmaj7 chord in the Notion guitar palette.

Most guitarists mute the low 'E' when playing it, but if you like the 'E' in the bass, you can notate it as Cmaj7/E.