Notion

Notion combines a full-featured music notation system with interpretive algorithms linked to a proprietary playback engine that offers samples of thousands of individual notes and articulations played by the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios

Features :
• Fast and simple interface for entering music
• keyboard/mouse entry and keyboard shortcuts
• MIDI keyboard entry, real-time, stretch-time, and step-time
• MusicXML: import from Finale, Sibelius, and score scanners
• Up to 64 staffs, and two voices on each staff
• Fast, anti-aliased screen rendering and refresh
• Automatic note and expression alignment
• Standard and non-standard key signatures
• Complex time signatures
• User-defined beaming

Expressive and realistic playback of:
• Dynamics, crescendo, diminuendo
• 15 different articulations, slurs
• Tempo changes
• Grace notes, arpeggios
• Pizzicato/arco
• Pedal marks
• Fermatas
• Quarter tones
• And more!

• Sample-based playback of orchestral instruments
• No external software, hardware or MIDI assignment
• Low-latency playback
• Reverb from natural, recorded decay
• NTEMPO: real-time "conducting" of the score
• Replay of NTEMPO performance
• WAV file creation, faster than real-time playback
• Instrument audio mixer: mute, solo, balance, pan, and decay
• Double-voice playback of different instruments
• Global transposition and tuning
• Plays repeat signs, multiple endings, D.S. al coda, etc.