Fender Notion

Fender Notion

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
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About

Fender Notion is a music notation and composition application that enables musicians to create, edit, play back, and share musical scores. The software supports standard sheet music notation, guitar tablature, percussion notation, and arrangements for multiple instruments. Users can enter notes through an interactive piano keyboard, guitar fretboard, drum pad, or supported MIDI input devices. Its playback engine uses sampled instruments, including orchestral recordings performed by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. Fender Notion provides tools for adding chord symbols, articulations, dynamics, lyrics, and other musical markings to compositions. The application supports wireless score transfers between compatible devices and integrates with Fender Studio Pro for exchanging musical notation and MIDI data.

About

StaffPad is an award-winning music notation app, designed for pen and touch, and built for composers. StaffPad lets you effortlessly write music in your own handwriting, edit with the convenience of touch, and hear your score played back with breathtakingly realistic sounds. StaffPad Reader is made for musicians. It's a free app that connects to StaffPad, and displays the individual parts of a StaffPad Score, in real time, across multiple devices. Any changes made to the score in StaffPad update instantly on every connected Reader. Annotations and playback work in perfect sync, all you need is a simple Wi-Fi connection. Together, they form an extremely elegant, intuitive and powerful platform for composition and live performance. StaffPad's unique algorithms convert your handwritten notation into a beautifully typeset score. It'll even help you by automatically correcting your stem directions, adding courtesy accidentals and highlighting when there's too many, or too few, beats.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Composers, songwriters, music arrangers, instrumentalists, music educators, students, orchestral musicians, and producers who need tools for creating sheet music, writing tablature, arranging instrumental parts, and exchanging notation with digital audio production software

Audience

Composers and musicians wanting a music notation application with handwriting recognition features to write music

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$161.81 one-time payment
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$89.99 one-time payment
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 2.5 / 5
ease 3.0 / 5
features 3.8 / 5
design 3.2 / 5
support 2.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I could have given this app 5 stars, until they updated to Notion 6. I had arranged music and had loved the full London Symphony sampling. Its amazing how easy to use it on my iPad.

Cons

  • Until they put on the next update, changed the layout of the tools. The mandolins used to play on in a regular beat of its own, wether your tempo is slow, it performs the actual tremolo sampling, not being dependent on the set tempo. After the update, it lost its original natural tremolo tempo. The tremolo had became dependent on the tempo that it sounds so midi. If the beat is fast, the tremolo goes fast, and actually too fast it was so unnatural. If the tempo is slow, the instrument lost its tremolo, it just became a slow up-down picking. Before however, it was perfect. Some programing algorithm must have changed. I had complained about this to the company, but they don't seem to know what is going on. Even sent samples of the difference. But they never bothered.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It is helpful to hear music that I am trying to learn. It is easy to write score. The lasso feature is great. The StaffPad reader is nice.
  • Easy to use and nice connection to StaffPad reader. Good playback features. It also has good online tutorials.
  • I am a long time Finale user (20years) and am quite adept at the keyboard and number pad input methods. StaffPad is refreshing in its ability to input similar detail via handwriting recognition. If you have ever hand written a composition using a chisel point pen (calligraphy) the input method for StaffPad makes perfect sense. Angled strokes for note heads, stems and flags instead of circles and such (pencil style) are easily converted into engraved font musical notation without much of a learning curve. Articulation and dynamics follow suit. Score directions have a sub menu that is direction sensitive, but certainly not onerous. It truly shines as educational software when coupled with a large touch screen tv (standard in many schools as the 'main learning display') where the legacy pen input allows a larger view for students to input their scores, and adjust pitches by holding a note head with the pen. This allows the student to audiate (sing in their head) and have the pitches confirmed by the software. This cannot be underestimated in eartraining for student musicians. They then transfer this to their paper drafts and then more competently reapply it to the software, due to the tactile pen input.
  • It's silky smooth for hand-writing music with the Surface pen on the screen. That's why I bought it and that's why I wanted to love it, but couldn't. It's affordable and has some incredible features like auditory recognition of a played tune that then appears as a score. It could be and should be terrific software, but for the interface, which I found utterly baffling.

Cons

  • Not all of the functionalities work. I can’t get all of the clave hits to play on a piece that has 3 staffs. It says you can change the duration of a note by sliding right or left. That doesn’t work.
  • Technical support has been terrible. Had I known this I would have never purchased. I have sent them questions and they never respond. StaffPad is on my wife’s IPAD. I give them both of our email addresses and I have posed the question about the clave several times and they simple won’t respond. I had other questions in the past for which no one responds. A real bummer. If you need supportive technical support, don’t buy StaffPad.
  • There are a large number of sound suites available for free in the software but, sadly, the presence of in app purchasing of even better sounds, in part, prevents many state education department's from allowing the software to be purchased for schools. This means the excellent companion software for transmitting individual player parts to tablets enabling the software to be used in realtime for ensemble rehearsals is also not available for implementation in schools. Scores can be edited in realtime and the edits appear in the individual player's parts, on their tablet, in real time. Not a problem with the software, but an issue with the delivery of the product that stops it from meeting its potential.
  • The aesthetically pleasing interface has nearly everything hidden. Even where to save your score is an unnecessary mystery. That's not "intuitive" or "simple," that's bad design. The documentation is little help as it is impossible to navigate. there's time-wasting tutorials but the learning curve is severe. After many hours of work disappeared one day as I tried to change instrumentation, I said "Nevermore."

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Founded: 1946
United States
www.fender.com/pages/fender-notion

Company Information

StaffPad
Founded: 2013
United Kingdom
www.staffpad.net

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Categories

Music Notation Supported

Categories

Music Notation Supported

Integrations

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Integrations

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