Three good things about Notion 3 (and one bad!)
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:28 amThree great things about Notion 3 (There will be more, but I've only just installed it):
1. The new interface is great, while the program retains all the playback and other features of Notion 2
2. Amongst the demo scores is one by Dr Jarrett. I don't know much of his music, but I was pleased to see this piece and very much enjoyed it. I can hear why Notion playback is as good as it is.
3. There's a Contrabassoon!! (and lots of other additional instruments) I've played back a piece of mine so often with Double Bass playing the Contrabassoon part I almost didn't recognise it when the Contrabassoon came in. A flood of nostalgia — it now sounds as I originally imagined it.
(4: I know I said only three but the Authorisation system is such an improvement. Clear, easy and quick.)
The bad thing (so far only one, but hey . . .) In Notion 2 my MusicXML imports put an accidental on the first note of a bar when there was note with an accidental tied over from the previous bar. In Notion 3 it doesn't (correctly) but if that note is repeated later in the bar, the accidental is no longer applied. Catastrophe (and caterwauling). This happens when I load a score previous imported into Notion 2 — I haven't tried directly reading the score in Notion 3 yet, and in any case I don't want to lose all my edits. Is there perhaps some clever way of avoiding this problem?
1. The new interface is great, while the program retains all the playback and other features of Notion 2
2. Amongst the demo scores is one by Dr Jarrett. I don't know much of his music, but I was pleased to see this piece and very much enjoyed it. I can hear why Notion playback is as good as it is.
3. There's a Contrabassoon!! (and lots of other additional instruments) I've played back a piece of mine so often with Double Bass playing the Contrabassoon part I almost didn't recognise it when the Contrabassoon came in. A flood of nostalgia — it now sounds as I originally imagined it.
(4: I know I said only three but the Authorisation system is such an improvement. Clear, easy and quick.)
The bad thing (so far only one, but hey . . .) In Notion 2 my MusicXML imports put an accidental on the first note of a bar when there was note with an accidental tied over from the previous bar. In Notion 3 it doesn't (correctly) but if that note is repeated later in the bar, the accidental is no longer applied. Catastrophe (and caterwauling). This happens when I load a score previous imported into Notion 2 — I haven't tried directly reading the score in Notion 3 yet, and in any case I don't want to lose all my edits. Is there perhaps some clever way of avoiding this problem?