![]() ![]() ![]() Add up the notes and rests, and it will add up. There is nothing but a blank page before you, which leaves little structure. You put down the cursor where you want it, and you can add things, but not without necessarily deleting others. Notion seems to act more like a word processor. I know how much space is left, and can easily see my options for where to put the next note. If the measure has adjusted itself, the rests already read eighth then quarter rests. I enter a quarter note on beats 1 and 2, and an eighth not on beat 3. Thanks for the response I do believe Notion is a great product, and I'm really glad to have it integrated with StudioOne.įor me, I still feel like rests should be more automatic. When a note turns red, I know there are too many beats in the measure. Īs an example, if I think there is enough room for two 1/16th notes and a 1/32nd note but am not certain, I add them and see if one or more of them turn red. This way I don't need to keep track of what I already have added to the measure. If I want to know how many notes and rests can be added to a measure, I can add a few of them until one turns red, and then I know how much I can add. I prefer "extra" notes to turn red, and this visual cue is very helpful when I am working on elaborate drumkit rhythm patterns involving 1//16th and 1/32nd notes and rests, as well as tuplets which can be very difficult to compute when they are greater than the perhaps customary triplets. If the "extra" note instead jumped automagically to the next measure, then it would replace or overwrite what one should expect to be good notes, and it would do this with no obvious visual cues other than focus shifting to the next measure. When you are editing a measure, a note turning red provides the visual cue that it exceeds the number of beats allowed in the measure, and this is a useful bit of information. Īs best as I can determine, the way NOTION works is based primarily on the concept that the composer is doing things intentionally and as such will prefer to be notified when there is a mistake. When there are "extra" notes in a measure, they could just move to the next measure, but these type of actions require software designers to make design decisions, since there are consequences. Most of the user actions, like notes turning red in a measure, are done by design as a matter of style or practicality. If you only need to produce sheet music, then stick with Sibelius, but if you want to hear your compositions, NOTION is the only practical solution. If you have advanced engraving requirements, then keeping Sibelius makes a bit of sense as a secondary notation application, but my perspective is that both Finale and Sibelius are awkward and basically impossible to use for purposes of virtual music production. The Sibelius user interface actions you described seem very awkward to me, perhaps because I only use NOTION, although I have Sibelius and Finale, which I bought as competitive crossgrades mostly as a matter of curiosity. īecoming accustomed to the NOTION user interface probably is similar for folks who have used other notation software for a long time. I touch-type rapidly, and these particular keys being reversed made it difficult, but after a while it became natural. When I switched from Windows to the Mac in 2000, it was awkward for a few months, mostly due to the backspace and delete keys being reversed. Am I doing something wrong, or missing something? If there is a way to make Norton behave more like Sibelius in these regards, I would love to know how. Likewise, if I decide that there should be 4 quarter notes in a given measure instead of 8 eighth notes, I should be able to replace those notes without basically deleting the whole measure and rewriting it.Īll these things are a huge waste of time. More importantly, in Sibelius, if I delete a note, it becomes a rest, and doesn't change the position of all other notes after it in the measure. Also, it makes more sense to have every blank measure start with a whole rest, and tests should be adjusted automatically as notes are entered. Bump it to the next measure or don't allow it. If the note is going to turn red because all the notes are used up, don't let it be entered. The fact that Notion allows putting extra notes in a measure only opens the door for errors. There is a finite amount of space for notes and rest in a given measure. ![]() Norton's interface itself feels very robust and intuitive, but the way the notes behave when I edit them bothers me. ![]()
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