Notion 4+

Compose anywhere

NOTION Music, Inc.

    • 3.8 • 4 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

With over 10 years in the App Store, Notion Mobile is a free, award-winning music composition tool for iOS, iPadOS®, macOS and more! You’ll effortlessly create dynamic compositions in traditional musical notation or guitar tablature with its intuitive touch-based interface and incredibly broad editing capabilities.

With a user-friendly interface and simple interactive piano keyboard, fretboard, drum pad, and even optional Handwriting Recognition, Notion Mobile makes it easy to get started composing your music. You can also hear your music performed with the most realistic playback possible, using real audio samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.

Notion Mobile is a native cross-platform app, meaning you can write anywhere on any device without requiring a constant Internet connection. And when you’re back online, you’ll be able to sync your work across multiple devices — either through your preferred cloud provider, or through the optional wireless transfer between PreSonus applications on any device. Start your work on one device and finish it on another. Once you are happy with your creation you can share the Notion file, or export as MIDI, MusicXML, PDF or as an audio file.

Compose, edit, and play back your music performed with real piano and orchestral samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios — along with outstanding sampled guitar, bass, drums and other popular instruments. And when you’re ready for more sounds, you’ll find the extensive library of Notion Add-on Soundsets to purchase as part of the Feature Bundle. To save space, the initial app download contains just piano — you can then manage which of the bundled Soundsets to have on your device or keep in the cloud, just tap on Sound Installation.

Notion has been featured in various Apple campaigns including the 2014 YourVerse television commercials and has won several awards, including a prestigious music industry NAMM TEC Award for Best Smartphone/Tablet App.

What you get:
Notion Mobile includes unlimited staves, comprehensive editing features and core orchestral and rhythm section Soundsets — all for free. You can optionally register (also for free!) to unlock an additional Soundset (containing Solo Strings, Classical Saxophones and Glockenspiel), the multivoice function that allows writing in up to 4 voices per staff, and access to the friendly Notion Mobile User Forum. Then for the full experience, either sign in with your Studio One+ membership or purchase the Notion Feature Bundle. This unlocks Handwriting Recognition, Layout Controls, all the Expansion Soundsets (including many auxiliary instruments and additional articulations and effects), additional audio export formats (m4a, OPUS, FLAC) and direct file transfer between any PreSonus application running on the same network (including Notion Mobile, Notion Desktop, and Studio One.)


Free:
Unlimited staves
All editing features
Core Soundsets
Export as MIDI, PDF, wav, mp3

Register for free:
Reward Soundset including Solo Strings, Glockenspiel, Classical Saxophones
Access to the new Notion Mobile User Forum
Additionally write for voices 3 and 4 in a single staff
Export as MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML

Feature Bundle (in-app purchase or sign in with Studio One+):
Handwriting Recognition, powered by MyScript
Available on iPhone, iPad and macOS (macOS with supporting graphics tablet or using Sidecar with compatible iPad)
Automatic pen vs. finger recognition to switch between handwriting and edit mode
Pressure-sensitive support for Apple Pencil
Adjustable timer for Handwriting Recognition
Override handwriting timer by double tapping Apple Pencil (2nd Gen)
Layout Control
All Expansion Soundsets
Additional audio export formats (m4a, OPUS, FLAC)
Direct file transfer between any PreSonus application running on the same network (including Notion Mobile, Notion Desktop, and Studio One)

What’s New

Version 3.3.1

Welcome to Notion Mobile 3.3.1 maintenance release. For the full guide, check: https://shorturl.at/qBXY1
For hints, tips and more help, visit our new Notion Mobile forum at forums.presonus.com

Ratings and Reviews

3.8 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

PetyaGabrova ,

Handwriting

You should have written SOMEWHERE that the handwriting option is PAID!?!?!?! Yes, it is 9 or 10 dollars, but still!
Write it down somewhere.
I just bought the app ONLY for the handwriting feature. So dissapointing.

dkyuchukov ,

Usefull, but sometimes annoying

Sound is OK, functionality is fine for me. There are some workflow killers however. As reported in forum threads years ago device screen lock during live midi recording is not prevented (the way many apps would do) making that useless. Suggestion is to turn auto locking off from iOS settings, which is ridiculous for obvious safety and convenience reasons (sometimes even prevented by corporate restrictions). Sustain of notes using a piano pedal is not reflected by midi recording in any way in the sheet too. // UPDATE (2022-01-29): I will sadly need to reduce one more star - on top of not recording damper pedal (mentioned originally), the Ped sheet symbols are not translated into corresponding CC64 Sustain when exporting to midi file too. Instead, the app midi exports altered notes lengths which spoils the workflow and flexibility even further and the MusicXML does not account for them at all. Taking developers response into account I would seriously advise anyone who plans working with midi and DAW software to consider alternatives before buying Notion.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for leaving a review. Thanks for the feature request on the idle timer during MIDI recording. In the meantime I don't think it's unreasonable to manually increase the auto-locking time - it would be unlikely you would do a whole 15 minutes worth of unbroken MIDI record in?

For sustain, no, Notion iOS intentionally does not translate CC64 into Pedal Up/Down markings.

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Data Not Collected

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