Hi Flajolet,
My name is Lubo Astinov and I am the Product Manager here at NOTION Music. I wanted to take some time to answer those great questions you have in some more detail and specifics.
Please see below...
Thanks for the fast reply.
What I had in mind about the CC inserts was - Look at this picture -
http://ardour.org/files/ardour_midi2.png notice where it says CC1 ( which was the mod wheel i think ) Notice how the user has the complete freedom to draw whatever line he wants in order to make it on no time and make it more expressive and smooth - and for a single track there could be several CC assigned so for example mod wheel panning expression portamento can be controlled simultaneously - Can this be done just as easily in Notion 3 ?
For example - I write an idea for viola snd to stard adding dynamics via the mod wheel simply by drawing such lines pointing where the mod wheel should be from 0 to 127.
At this point NOTION3 won't allow you to "draw" the CC commands, you would record them in real time. You can have several CC's at once. We do plan to have a "drawing" feature in the future however. P.S. - Please if you happened to use sibelius and have some experience with inserting CC can you compare it with the Notion 3 way of doing that ?
I haven't played much with this in Sibelius 6, but as far as I recall, Sibelius 5 represented CC's in a string of text commands. NOTION actually draws a curve based on the values. You can have multiple CC's on a staff and you enter them through real-time recording. You can delete and re-enter as many times as you like and you can also overdub additional CC's with keeping the ones you have there. I really like the support here - I hate the sibelius staff - "we'll contact you in 3 days" attitude.
Thank you, we're really trying to get back quickly at our customers. Another thing we have as a culture here at NOTION is frequent updates based on customer input. PS 2 - Here is an example of a bit more complicated midi cc data -
http://tylermazaika.com/wp-content/uplo ... utput1.jpg where several controls are inserted to a single track - tell me I can do the same thing the same way and ou got yourself a customer !
You can have multiple controllers just fine, it will not look the same way because NOTION 3 puts the CC's above the staff and you can't "draw" them , you record them. However, yes you CAN achieve the same audio output. What you will need is a MIDI device (a keyboard or a controller of sorts) that can output to the different CC's so that you can record them on your staff. Around 2min 47sec of the promo video i see an example of cc velosity control, and I have 3 questions :
1 - The voice says it can be used to deine volume, velocity, and pitch bend.... can it be used for all the CCs ? cc1, cc64 ? cc 100 ? all of them ???
1.1 - can multiple ccs be used on a single track
The answer to both is YES! You do need a MIDI device you can record them with. 2 - Is this the way it is graphicly done ? with those black bars on the upper side of the staff ?? No table with velocities ?? 0 to 127, if for exmple i want the cc1 on a certain part of viola solo to go from 63to90 and back several times, how is it possible to know that i am inputing the exact values ??
Basically, you want to be able to specify exact values for your CC's at the moment of entry? Since you are recording CC's in NOTION3 you would then have to either use your MIDI device output reading (usually on a LCD on the controller), or if you're recording on a VST, many have input readers for the CC's. Again, currently, you don't "draw" the CC's you record them, so NOTION3 itself will not limit the input, you would have to do it. 3 - Can work with VST effects..?? REALLY ? Does this mean that can assign My altiverb software to add reverb the same time I compose the piece ?
Yes. We have had beta users tell us Altiverb 6.1 works just fine with NOTION3. I have heard though that some newer versions are less-then-stable. However, in principle, yes, you can have any VST effect on any of the inserts on any of the channels to work in real-time while recording/composing. In fact NOTION3 comes bundled with the CSR Hall module from Classik Studio Reverbs by IK Multimedia. Also I see Notion will recognise and work with some of the "greatest" libraries for orchstra - VSL and EWQL and...miroslav ?? Do you plan on adding more libraries ? Rescently the greatest ever strings library was relised - L.A. Scoring Strings - can in the near future support for it be expected ?
Yes, we do plan to increase support for libraries. Watch out for news on this matter. Thank you in advance for the reply - looking forward for your great product
Thank you so much for the great questions. I'm sure we satisfied some of your concerns, maybe we didn't quite make it on others. But in any case, even if the workflow isn't "exactly" what you are used to, I will certainly recommend giving NOTION3 a serious consideration. It is a really different piece of software and its new in a lot of major ways. Coupled with our dedication to constantly improve it I think you will be happy with the final result.PS - Is there any 5 stringed bass included ? With some articulations ?? At least fast staccatto and sustain ?
Yes, the bass included is a 5-string bass and it supports all articulations.