Notion 4 now x64 with rewire.

For those of us that bought notion 3 when it was a special offer a couple of years ago. Now if you like you can upgrade it to x64. IIRC the upgrade download is $49.99. I tested the rewire and it does work but it will not support 48khz only 44.1khz. Just a heads up.

I tested the rewire and it does work but it will not support 48khz only 44.1khz. Just a heads up.

Doh! So how many more years to get 48kHz support, I wonder. 

I hope there are some good new features along with the x64 support for $50. But if it can't do 48kHz, I'll probably skip it anyway.

My last interface (E-MU 1820m) ran better and was more stable at 48kHz (supposedly the "native" clock rate for most Creative/E-MU hardware) so I switched over a few years ago. I'm not about to go back now with so many projects recorded at that rate.  I also liked the idea that 48kHz gives more room for anti-aliasing filters to have a less aggressive slope to help preserve high-end, though I won't begin to pretend I could actually hear it. 

Tom RiggsThe Notion forum seems to be overshadowed by one user that is very [impressed] with himself.

Holy $#!+. That guy is just not sane, pure and simple.  And you guys thought I was pedantic... 


Tom, I just found your post on the Notion forum about the 48kHz issue. I had sort of forgotten about the problem, and went ahead and shelled out for the upgrade. My first project happened to be a very old one that was 44.1kHz, so I didn't see the problem until the Rewire connection in that project started acting up, and I xferred all the tracks to a new 48kHz project.


What a mess. Is there another audio app on the planet that costs more than nothing and doesn't support 48kHz? And it's not just Notion's internal sounds; even VSTis hosted in Notion play back a whole-step high (48/44.1) when rewired to 48kHz SONAR. An inexcusable shortcoming in my view.


In general, I find the product to be under-developed in may ways, but it has a few unique features (in addition to generating notation vastly superior to SONAR's) that make it attractive. It's disappointing when a product with such great potential has a fatal flaw like this. 


In any case, I'll go ahead and add my feature request to yours. And I hope that any other non-44.1kHz SONAR-Notion users here might do the same.

Unfortunately, there's really no support for exchanging/transmitting MIDI between SONAR and Notion in either direction (AFAIK), other than by importing/exporting MIDI/musicXML files.

All you can do is slave Notion's audio engine to SONAR. In addition to having to do this at 44.1kHz, I've found that the Notion's transport is not fully slaved; when you change the Now time in SONAR, Notion's playback cursor doesn't jump to the new SONAR location until you start playback. 

Incidentally, it seems Notion just pushed out a 4.0.313 update, but there's not a word on their website that I can find about what's in it. 

I think I will be using it only for a limited number of new projects that I will just set up at 44.1kHz in SONAR. I mostly just want to work on converting some of my own stuff to notation to see If this old dog can learn to better read and write music old-world style.