Here’s at PreSonus, we love creating possibilities. Speaking of possibilities, the recently updated StudioLive ARc series of Hybrid Mixer/Audio Interfaces pack tons of useful features for educational spaces! Whether its the classroom, the studio, or the field, there is a StudioLive ARc for every use case!

From February 12-15th, educators from across Texas and around the globe descended on San Antonio, Texas for the annual Texas Music Educators Association Clinic & Convention. Often regarded to as the largest music education convention of the year, TMEA was bigger than ever, boasting its highest attendance figures to date. Our now annual duo of PreSonus Education Market Manager Evan Brown and PreSonus House of Worship manager were in attendance manning the PreSonus booth, as well as our territory representatives Brandon Bishop and John Fedorko of Cowser Marketing!

The festivities kicked off Wednesday evening at the annual Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) TMEA Pre-Conference Reception. PreSonus is a longtime sponsor and partner of TI:ME and raffled 2 pairs of the ERIS HD10BT Headphones to lucky educators!

The show continued with a very busy exhibit floor from Thursday-Saturday. The PreSonus booth was home to many products, including the brand-new ioStation 24c, Quantum 2626, ARc Series Hybrid Mixer/Interfaces, and of course Studio One 4.6! Other PreSonus products on hand included:

• Studio Series Audio Interfaces
• Faderport Production Controllers
• StudioLive 64S Digital Mixing Console
• NSB16.8 Network Stagebox
• StudioLive 32R Rack Mixer
• SW5E AVB Switch
• Eris Media Reference and Studio Monitors
• AIR Series Loudspeakers
• Notion 6.5 Notation Software

PreSonus remains committed to serving music educators across the globe. For more information, be sure to keep visiting edu.presonus.com

Notion 6.6 is now available! It’s a minor maintenance update that adds compatibility with multi-core Windows machines and fulfils the upcoming security requirements of Apple’s Catalina operating system. Handwriting, MusicXML and MIDI import enhancements that were made for the recent Notion iOS 2.5 update have been inherited too, plus there’s some good news for 5-string banjo players…

This is a free update for Notion 6 owners that can be obtained by clicking “Check for Updates” within Notion.

All Fixes and Enhancements

Operating System Compatibility

• Notion now compatible with dual Xeon / multi-core processors
• [macOS] Notion is now ‘notarized’ as required by macOS10.15 Catalina
• Please note, Notion 6.6.x will be the final version to support Windows 8 and earlier, and macOS 10.12 Sierra and earlier.

Handwriting

• Fix for handwriting engine occasionally stopping during a long session
• Fix for subsequent measures sometimes changing after handwriting recognition on an earlier measure
• Rests on ledger lines no longer cause an issue
• Elements that cross systems (e.g. ties) now supported when using the handwriting area or continuous score view
• Adjacent offset notes on ledger lines now don’t transpose on subsequent notes being entered
• Fix for handwriting recognition problem on systems that have a repeat line

MusicXML

• Now imports grace notes with beaming information
• Better handling of imported beaming information
• [Win] Fix for arco and pizzicato being abbreviated on export
• Fixed occasional duplication of symbols, when exporting legato-accent, and mezzo-staccato
• Chords originally imported into Notion from Studio One’s Chord Track, are now exported as expected from Notion
• Fix for TAB pitches being wrongly transposed by an octave on export, for non-transposing fretted instruments (e.g. banjo, mandolin, ukulele)

Notation

• Lyrics and chord symbols now paste without replacing the notation, after copying a selection that is longer than one measure
• Fix for crash if lyrics melisma is followed by a hidden measure (i.e. hidden empty staff / cut section / multi-measure rest)
• Fix for crash caused by deleting notes in measures with rhythm slashes in another voice
• When in ‘Dark’ theme, note durations are now visible in the cursor if between staves (go to Preferences>Theme>Dark)
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• 5-string banjo fret numbers now start at the 5th fret as expected
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Audio

• Fix for crash caused by different buffer sizes between Notion and ReWire
• Hi-hat foot splash sample fixed
• Fix plugin test for shell plugins (Was reported by users of RealStrat)
• Fix enabling certain plugins (Was reported by users of Output Movement)

General

• [macOS] Ctrl+mouse click on a loaded insert in the mixer, now brings up the “right-click” context menu as expected
• Language fixes
• User Guide updated

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