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Add staves – PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) User Manual

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In Notion you can add quite a number of staves in a very short period of time . There is no software-

imposed limit to the number of staves you can have in a score: you can add as many as you need .

Practically speaking, there is a limit set by the available memory in your computer .

Open Score Setup

With Notion you open Score Setup to quickly add a new instruments to a score . To open it you:

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Click the

button in the toolbar, or

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Go to the Menu bar and select Score > Setup, or

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Use the keyboard shortcut of Windows:

Ctrl + T

; Mac:

+ T

.

The score area darkens, palettes of options appear on the right, and existing
staves display

buttons to the left of measure one .

Score Setup.

Step One: Select a Sound Source

The first step is to select the source of instrument sounds you want . To do this, click one of the

options in the palette of buttons at the

bottom

right . You only see those options that are installed

on your computer . Notice as you click the various options, the contents of the upper palette of

buttons change . You are more than free to mix different sources in the same score .

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Notion Instruments: This is the default when you first Enter Score Setup . These close-mic’d sounds are in stereo

with no effects (so you can completely control the reverb or other effects you add using the

Mixer

) . Once you click

this option, you can proceed to Step Two .

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If the sound source is one of these specific VSTi libraries: Vienna Symphonic Library, East West Quantum Leap

(EWQL Symphonic Orchestra), or IK Multimedia’s Miroslav Philharmonik you have the option of using our no-

programming presets by clicking the Library’s name and proceeding to Step Two . If you have one of these libraries

installed and it is not listed, then add it to the VST Manager, and return to this procedure .

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If you will use a VSTi library that is not named in the previous bullet – or you want to use one of the libraries named

in the previous bullet but with your own VSTi template – you complete a different procedure,

discussed in VST

Instruments and detailed in Add Multi-Channel Track, all in Chapter 9

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