NOTION Music Forum

This is one page from one piece. This occurs in pretty much every score I make in Notion. The tools under "MeasureXX" either make it worse or literally do nothing at all. Any thoughts? I have reviewed the manual many times; no help that I could find.

I believe that most of these issues can be resolved with some score formatting.

Best option is for you to contact Brian in tech support and send him your score so he can help you sort this out.

You are correct that the concert toms are not pitched and the appearance of accidentals must be a bug. The Roto toms are pitched and tuned however and do read/playback as such.

tubatimberinger wrote:This is one page from one piece. This occurs in pretty much every score I make in Notion. The tools under "MeasureXX" either make it worse or literally do nothing at all. Any thoughts? I have reviewed the manual many times; no help that I could find.

If you can post a link to the NOTION 3 score that matches the generated print (no other instruments, just the part that matches the print), I can see how it works on the Mac . . .

With the caveat that I am not so advanced in my music notation abilities, I would have a separate staff for each instrument if it were intended to be used as sheet music for a real percussionist . . .

I know that most of what I call "drumkits" (VSTi virtual instruments like Addictive Drums [XLN Audio] and the various percussion maps in SampleTank [IK Multimedia] and Kontakt 5 [Native Instruments]) have what appear to be chromatic "notes", where each "note" maps to a different percussion instrument--which is fine with me--but even then I tend to have a separate staff for each instrument, where for example I usually have at least two separate staves for kick drums and occasionally have as many as eight staves for kick drums when I am "sparkling" them, which is not something that makes sense to do for a real orchestra, since real orchestras tend to be monaural, but so what . . .

So what!

I am not certain that I can provide any help, but (a) I can follow the music notation; (b) it makes sense in a practical way, because one percussionist can play several instruments, which is not the least bit unusual for a percussionist to do; and (c) I feel your pain . . .

At minimum, the measures should be aligned nicely, and it might be a matter of the page size and printer driver if you are doing this on a Windows computer . . .

Just a few thoughts . . .

That the formatting tools don't seem to work is my problem. If you use [force new system] it indeed moves the measure to the next system and that next system looks fine however, it leaves the space behind where the measure you moved was, i.e. doesn't update the margins from the previous system which is how there are so many uneven right margins. Also, you cannot even select measures to format when they are mulit-measure rests. [Link to Next] actually does nothing; literally no action. I'll send it to tech support and see what's up.

tubatimberinger wrote:That the formatting tools don't seem to work is my problem. If you use [force new system] it indeed moves the measure to the next system and that next system looks fine however, it leaves the space behind where the measure you moved was, i.e. doesn't update the margins from the previous system which is how there are so many uneven right margins. Also, you cannot even select measures to format when they are mulit-measure rests. [Link to Next] actually does nothing; literally no action. I'll send it to tech support and see what's up.

You may try to allow the program to format your score before adding system breaks and link to next figures into the piece. While we certainly have some work to do on the customization of formatting the automatic formatting Notion performs can certainly do the job. When you start adding system breaks and link to next commands throughout your score you may run into issues where extracted parts may not look as you'd like.

-Kyle

That is what I did initially. I encountered the same problems, just in different places throughout the parts. That's when I started trying to 'fix' them with the page break tools. This either did nothing or made it worse resulting in an even bigger mess. I sent my file to Brian, he gave it a look and he gave me some tips and even fixed my file as best he could. I'm still very grateful for the effort he put in. I'm sure much of these limitations will be addressed in N4 which I look forward to.

-ttb