VirtuosoWorks Notion Composition Software (Windows)

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Intuitive scoring interface. Hi Fidelity string samples recorded at Abbey Road.

Notion is designed so musicians can focus on music, not technology. Enter, edit, and manipulate data-rich notation instantly from your workstation or your MIDI instrument. The designer of the acclaimed MusicPrinter Plus has now created the most intuitive score entry ever, with all the advanced features you need to create the most complex score. Be composer and conductor at once. For the first time, you can compose directly to the orchestra without file conversions, patches, sequencers, or separate sample batches.

What you write is what you hear. The Notion interpretive sample playback engine is notation-driven, capturing every nuance of composition.

Features:
Samples from the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios

String sections, winds, brass, piano, harp and 12 percussion instruments

Up to 1,000 voice polyphony

Presence adjustment on an instrument-by-instrument basis

Note-level control, no channel limitation

Interpretive sample playback engine

Full-featured notation editor

Full range of articulations and timbres

Recorded hall decays

Scaleable ambience: no need for reverb effects

8x finer volume resolution than MIDI

NTEMPO real-time performance control

The London Symphony Orchestra.
Abbey Road Studios.

The best players. The finest instruments. The latest recording technology.

Working in concert with an interpretive sample playback engine you can hear a high quality performance of your notation instantly. Without external hardware or other read more software products you can go from notation directly to an incredible sample library by simply pressing 'Play'. Notion does all the work.

Notion developers worked with the London Symphony Orchestra to record thousands of the highest quality samples at legendary Abbey Road Studios. So you can use your creativity for composing - not imagining what your ideas sound like.

NTEMPO playback gives you real-time performance control. Rubato, holds, cutoffs, and vamps are accommodated with perfect precision. Incorporate Notion performance as live accompaniment to players, theatre, or anything else in the real world. Seamlessly.
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Minimum system requirements:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, or later

Sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0

512 MB RAM

2 GHz Pentium processor or equivalent

3 GB of free hard disk space

Hard drive with transfer rate of at least 25 MB/sec
(recommended - Notion supports 1000 sample polyphony)

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