What can you do in Notion that you cannot do in Sibelius or Finale?

[memyselfandus]

There is no Demo yet for Notion 4 so I am just looking for opinions and facts from anyone who knows the answers. What can you do in Notion that you cannot do in Sibelius or Finale? any cool features?

what about stuff you cannot do in Notion.. that you can do in Sibelius or Finale?

anyone switched to Notion from Sibelius or Finale? and happy with the switch? or vice versa?

[FastTriggerFish]

> What can you do in Notion that you cannot do in Sibelius or Finale?

Use it without learning the manual by heart
Seriously though it's mainly the ease of use.
It's not as full featured though but getting there.
I recommend reading the recent Sound on Sound review for more details.

[lfm]

In the full versions you pay all over again for features that are in your daw - all this audio and midi rendering etc.

It's really overkill as I see it - and horribly overpriced.

For all having a daw - one probably can make do with real simple stuff.

The dream - not come true yet - is a notation software that support rewire for midi - and does not cost multiples of most daws.

Then you could just rewire in it - select a couple of midi track in daw - and up comes the score - done.

[Ogg Vorbis]

I used Notion, then switched to Sib. Notion cannot do page layout stuff. You cannot edit for page turns, combine movements into one score, cannot change staff sizes, cannot create ossia staffs, etc.

Do yourself a favor and skip Notion.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I used Notion, then switched to Sib. Notion cannot do page layout stuff. You cannot edit for page turns, combine movements into one score, cannot change staff sizes, cannot create ossia staffs, etc.

Do yourself a favor and skip Notion.

It depends on what you use notation software for. Not everyone uses notation software for the print aspects. If you do, then yes, Notion is extremely limited here. You can edit fonts, and that's about it.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Notion has a few areas where it edges out other Notation software. Some things are, 1) the price to feature ratio, 2) ease of use, 3) excellent guitar tab and Guitar Pro support, 4) iPad app, 5) pretty good VST support, 6) x64 VST support, 7) responsive customer service, 8 ) it's not dead software (i.e. Sibelius), 9) good keyboard and step recording features, 10) intuitive keyboard shortcuts), etc.

I personally see it as being geared far more towards your average musician than a hardcore composer or music publishers. That means there's some annoyances regarding score setup/layout, like those pointed out a few posts above this one.

And there's also the odd one or two basic features that are still bizarrely missing like cross-staff beaming (when a passage starts out on the left hand/bass clef on a keyboard/grand-staff, and moves into the right hand/treble clef).

Overall, I'm happy with my Notion purchase. I said it in another thread, they're just one or two good updates away from being perfect. One update to focus on missing and improving some notation features, another to focus on adding print/layout features.

[memyselfandus]

I definitely need the print options also. Any word from notion on when or if they will be implementing those types of features?


I wonder why they don't have a demo yet? For version 4

[fandango]

Frustrated that the latest Notion still doesn't allow Customisable Key Mapping.

I'm used to 1, 2, 4 for Whole, Half and Quarter. Hunting around for W, H and Q is frustrating (for me) and the inability to change that means I've stopped using Notion completely now. Cubase's score editor isn't perfect by any means, but for now having it all in the same package is just the better option for me.

[jancivil]

to address the original question, Notion has SequencerStaff and -overlay, which allows you to edit velocity qua velocity and duration as in a piano roll, by dragging ends of rectangles representing the duration.