by ottomc » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:08 am
I definitely subscribe to what you express, Emilo. We do not know the consequences of Notion becoming a Presonus product yet, and I am left with the same set of ambivalent feelings that you describe. On the one hand, StudioOne seems to have very happy users, and an integration between StudioOne and Notion might make these users even happier. But they mainly work within other music genres than you and me and many other happy Notion users. The musicians in those genres do not necessarily rely a lot on advanced notation features in their work, but I certainly hope that Presonus will let the Notion team keep developing the notation features in Notion, making it even better and making us love Notion even more. We know what has happened to both Sibelius and Finale, but until proved wrong I choose to have high expectations for all of us notation-centric (and other) Notion users. Presonus seems to be a very honest company, dedicated primarily to music rather than money (I hope)!
BTW, I have sent the following message to Presonus,
"I have been using Notion for a long time and love it. Many Presonus users would like an integration with StudioOne, and that´s fine. But PLEASE don´t stop developing the notation features of Notion, where there are still things to be wished for (like cross staff notation in piano parts, more flexible ways to move/adjust items and so on). For a notation-centric, mainly classicaly trained guy like me, Notion is already a dream almost come true, so please let the Notion developers keep improving Notion as an intuitive stand alone notation application (with its integrated sequencer features). This would also make the integrated StudioOne+Notion application even better. Now that the future of both Sibelius and Finale seems rather unsecure, it's the perfect moment to make Notion the leading notation application."
Best wishes to all Notion users and the Notion team,
Otto