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61 Q3 2018 / CINEMONTAGE 61 Q3 2018 / CINEMONTAGE TECH TIPS articulations and performance techniques by the London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. Notion also features sample libraries for guitar, bass and drums by well-known and respected musicians such as guitarist Neil Zaza. According to PreSonus, Notion has the best and most realistic playback of any notation software available. Notion can even use third-party orchestral sample libraries if preferred. In addition, Notion includes a built-in mixer with the ability to mix and pan each instrumental part and add reverb, EQ, compressors and limiters. The sample library and the mixer both help to make Notion an entire music-creation and performance environment, in addition to its professional notation abilities. For those working in film and television, Notion includes a video window with time code view for scoring to picture, which allows one to do things like add hit points and select frame rate and start times (see Figure 2). It also has transport controls with precise frame-by- frame control. Additionally, there's support for all the important video file formats — MP4, H.264, MPEG and MOV — and Notion handles video natively on 64-bit Windows. As a side note, Notion 6 comes with a library of over 200 complete musical scores (including concertos, symphonies, quartets, etc.) from great composers like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and others for listening, exploring or accompanying. It is also integrated with Studio One, which allows for sending note data between the two applications, sharing VST data, creating lead sheets and much more. STUDIO ONE 4 Now let's take a look at the freshly released Studio One 4, PreSonus' advanced and full-featured DAW that allows one to professionally record, produce and master practically any kind of music and audio project (see Figure 3). First, there's a new Chord Track and Chord Selector, both of which do a lot more than simply allow for the display of the chord symbols of the harmonic progression of a song. Amazingly, Studio One 4 can actually analyze the tracks — whether MIDI-driven instrument tracks or digital audio tracks — and automatically extract the chord information from them. In other words, if one plays a chord progression on the guitar or piano, Studio One can identify those chords and display their symbols in the chord track. However, the magic doesn't end there; each of the chords can actually be modified or changed with the new Chord Selector. This is not just moving chords up or down a certain interval, such as a whole step from C major to D major, or up a fourth to F major. Instead, it can actually transfer the internal harmonic structure of a chord into an entirely different one. For example, a G major can be changed to an E minor 7th or, for that matter, an A Figure 3: Studio One 4 is an advanced, full-featured DAW that offers an impressive breadth of creative possibilities for music production, mixing, recording and mastering.