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Install

Your Progression package ships with one dual-layer DVD. Step 1: Insert the disc into a dual-layer DVD disc reader on your computer. If the installer does not work automatically, double-click Install Progression and follow the directions on the screen. This will install the Progression software, Progression bundled sounds and effects.

activate Progression
After the installation has completed you will be asked to activate your copy of Progression. Progression was shipped with a License Card which contains your activation code. You cannot use Progression without first activating it. Simply follow the instructions on the screen and enter the activation code found on your card. Once this process is complete you will be able to start working in Progression.

activation Without an Internet Connection

Contact Notion Music Technical Support for assistance with this process. Email: support@Notionmusic.com (please include your name, contact info, and activation code in this email) Phone: 1-366-275-2994 ex. 333 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Eastern Time Zone)

Progression for your iPad is a great companion for your new Progression software.

Take advantage of the compatibility between Progression for your desktop and Progression for iPad.
When you use Progression on both your desktop computer and iPad you can share your files between these two great programs or with others. Its a great way to continue working on your projects when youre on the go. You can edit and playback your score on one platform and then send it to the other and continue working on the same file.

Find more information at:

http://www.Notionmusic.com/products/Notionipad.html http://www.Notionmusic.com/products/progressionipad.html

The Main Progression Window

You spend most of your time in the main Progression window where youll find many convenient controls, palettes, and indicators, here are a few. Transport Access playback and record controls.

Instrument Name Displays the name of the instrument per staff.

Score area Large area with your composition. Have as few or as many instruments as you want. Entry Palette Most score markings are never more than a click away.

The Toolbar
The icons located in the toolbar allow the user easy access to tools frequently used.

A - Virtual Keyboard Enter notes and chords or audition a melody on this interactive keyboard. B- Virtual Drumpad Enter the desired drum or pitch while in step-time entry
mode.

C - Chord Library Select and insert chords or chord diagrams into you score D - Virtual Fretboard - Enter notes and chords or audition a melody with the interactive fretboard. E - Score Setup - Click this button so you can quickly add, change, edit or remove a staff in your score. F - Mixer - Click this button to open the audio mixer console so you can adjust individual instrument audio, edit effects, route output to external equipment, and more. 6

Guitar, Bass, and Other Fretted Instruments

Prefer to work in tablature? Progression has you covered. Work with tab staffs, a virtual fretboard, and an interactive chord library to capture your latest ideas. The edits you make in a tab staff appears in a notation staff and visa versa. Enter commonly used techniques including bends, slides, hammerons, pull-offs, taps, slaps, vibratos, and harmonics.

Entry Palette
With the pop-up options in the Entry Palette you quickly access markings you can place on your score. try adding a score marking Simply hover your mouse over one of the bottom panes to open a flyout window with options.

Hover over any of the options to view more information in a tooltip (you see the name of the symbol and, as a reminder, a keyboard shortcut you could use as an alternate way to access that symbol). To use a particular marking, click it. A representation of this symbol now appears on your cursor (a Music Cursor). Position the marking where you want it (see left). To add it to the score, either click your mouse or press ENTER. Its that easy.

Score Setup
Click the button, to display this function. In Score Setup you can quickly add, change, or remove staffs. You can also hide/ show, customize the order, change the appearance, and change the instruments assigned to multiple staffs. Score settings - access the score setup options. Remove instrument - removes instrument from score. Hide/Show instrument - hide/show the instrument(s) in your score.

Change instrument, part name, or abbreviation

Change instrument settings, notation settings, and tuning

Part of the process of adding a new staff is assigning an instrument, working from the bottom upward (letters refer to the callouts in the illustration): Hover over an instrument family. A submenu of instruments displays. Click an instrument. You have just created a new staff and assigned an instrument to it.

try adding a staff or instrument

You can continue to rapidly create more staffs this way. To exit Score Setup, you can press the Exit Score Setup button at the top or press ESC. Instruments Click the instrument you want to assign. Instrument Families The options change with the sound source you select below. Library options View the options currently installed on your computer.
You can download additional instruments, sound effects, and performance techniques. Check out the Expansion Sounds at Notionmusic.com.

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Score Area
Unlimited instruments, unlimited pages, and highly customizable. Work in a full score, or just with your choice of instruments or quickly edit or print a single instrument (go to the Menu bar and select Score > Dynamic Parts). Playback marker Seen in all page views, this green marker across a system identifies where playback is at the moment. As the marker moves further to the right, your view of the score automatically jumps ahead. To change page views, go to the Menu bar and select View. The three options at the top of the menu are Continuous, Pages Across, and Pages Down. Margin Seen in Continuous page view, this overlay updates you on the current Key and Time Signatures and identifies instruments in a red text. Continuous Page View Progression offers three page views. The one pictured here is Continuous. This no manual scrolling option features a continuous run through the score with no page breaks.

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Mixer
Works just like a hardware console, but without the hassle of wires! Theres a channel strip for each instrument, four buses, and a master channel strip. Click the Mixer button in the Toolbar to open this separate window.

These instrumentfamily buttons help you find the channel strips you want quickly. Sends Send a percentage of a channel strips sound to one or more buses. Power Panning Not simply left/right placement, but also how wide a spread. Output Click to determine where sound from this strip goes: to the Master or to external digital channels.

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Inserts Place effects (such as reverb or distortion) on individual instruments or (better yet) on one or more buses to be shared among your choice of instruments.

The default location of the built in Progression reverb. Click here to view and edit reverb settings.

Solo/Mute Great for isolating trouble spots while composing or during rehearsals.

Master (red fader) Global volume, panning, and effects. Buses (blue faders)

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Virtual instruments

The virtual instruments allow you to enter or audition notes/chords by selecting a duration and clicking the note on the instrument to either audition or enter the note.

- Choose whether youd like to enter music as single note (melody) or multiple notes (chord). - Choose the pencil icon to enter notes as you select them on the virtual instrument. - Choose the speaker icon to audition notes on the virtual instrument. - Select the octave youd like to enter/audition notes (virtual keyboard only).

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Virtual instruments - The Drumpad

The virtual drumpad works just like the other virtual instruments with the addition of the drum library. To use the drum library select a style (funk, jazz, rock, or world), choose a pattern and click in the score to place it.

A - Drumpads - Use the drumpads to enter notes to your score. The instrument ID will show up on the corresponding pad for identification. B - Controls - Access the voice, melody/chord mode, and genre for the drum library here. C - Drum Library - Select the pattern youd like to use in your score and drag it to the drum set staff in the score for use.

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Transport

Optional buttons for common tasks.

Rewind Click once to return to the spot where you last started. Click twice to return to the beginning. Stop Halt playback but stay at that location. Play Have Notion play your score using metronome marks to determine tempo. Real-Time Record Click to have Notion record notation as you play a MIDI device. Step-Time Record Click to enter notation from a MIDI device a step at a time. Also can be used with the virtual instruments.

Velocity Overdub Specify and edit velocity (loudness), down to individual notes. Can be used to reduce the number of dynamic marks in a score.

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Toolbar thin strip across the top of the window with various controls

Editing marker Shows at a glance where you are currently in the score.

Tooltip Unsure what a particular symbol is? These small windows open to tell you and remind you of their keyboard shortcuts. Customize your view Change page views, change the font size or switch to a jazz lead-sheet font, zoom, specify where measure numbers appear, jump instantly forward or backward, and more.

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Keyboard Shortcuts
Pressing keys to start, control, or end features are optional: there are always alternate methods available. However, the more keyboard shortcuts you use, the less time it takes to enter and edit scores. Edit Notes Notes and Rests
Tie tool Bar rest Double whole note/rest Whole note/rest Half note/rest Quarter note/rest 8th note/rest 16th note/rest 32nd note/rest 64th note/rest 128th note/rest Augmentation dots Ghost note Alternate noteheads Z Slur tool SHIFT + W Beam tool W Grace note H Q E S T J SHIFT + J D Select value, then zero X Swing Octave transposition marks SHIFT + 8 9 SHIFT + ~ G SHIFT + B SHIFT + S SHIFT + T

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Fermata, Caesura, Tenuto, Breath Trills Tremolos and Shakes Swing controls

/ and SHIFT + /
SHIFT + G

Accidentals
Flat Sharp Natural 2 3 4

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TIP: To use a shortcut to enter a tuplet, first display a note value on your Music Cursor, then hold down ALT and press a number key representing the type of tuplet, such as the number 3 for a triplet.

For quarter-tones, add SHIFT to above

Enharmonic spelling SHIFT + E

Score Markings
Change instrument Key signature Time signature Clefs Metronome mark SHIFT + I SHIFT + K SHIFT + M C SHIFT + R I SHIFT + ; SHIFT + 5 SHIFT + R 7 SHIFT + 7

Fretted Instruments
Bbmaj7

Chord names and diagrams Bends Palm mute, let ring, slap

SHIFT + C B M N

H P T

Hammer on, pull off, tap Slides Vibrato Whammy bar

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V SHIFT + V

accel. rit.

Tempo change abbreviations Bar lines Repeats and 1st/2nd endings Repeat Measure signs Rehearsal mark Navigation marks

TIP: To quickly place on your Music Cursor a fingering mark of p, i, m, a, c, T, 1, 2, 3, or 4, press the Y key, then press the number or letter you need.

Score Text
Add lyric Add text L K

[cut...

Cut marks

TIP: To change the time value of multiple notes/rests, highlight (or click-select) the notation involved, press the equal key (=), then press the keyboard shortcut (see Notes and Rests table) for the time value you want all notes/rests to have.

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Dynamics

Instrument Marks
Piano dynamics Forte dynamics Mezzo-piano Mezzo-forte Crescendo symbol or text Diminuendo symbol or text P F SHIFT + P SHIFT + F comma or < period or > Pedal marks Arpeggios 8 SHIFT + A SHIFT + = O (letter O)

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o

Close/stop (hi-hat) Open (hi-hat)

cresc. dim.

Articulations
Accent Staccato Strong Accent (Marcato) 5 1 6 (dash) O (letter O)

Change Note Pitches

Highlight or click-select notes. Then:
Move to any degree on the staff Move to the next higher degree Move to the next lower degree Move up by half steps Move down by half steps On the PC, move up by octaves Drag and drop

UP ARROW DOWN ARROW SHIFT+ UP ARROW SHIFT+ DOWN ARROW CTRL + ALT + UP ARROW O O O

Semi-Staccato
Harmonic, cut circle, Bartok pizz.

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Multi-Voice
Progression supports up to 4 voices on a staff. To quickly switch from one voice to another, hold down (PC:) CTRL(Mac:) and press a number from 1-4.

View
Zoom in Zoom out Zoom to... Go To Switch from one mode to the other Scroll right (in Continuous view) Scroll left (in Continuous view) PC: CTRL + = Mac: + = PC: CTRL + Mac: +
PC: SHIFT+ CTRL + = Mac: SHIFT + + =

File Level
Open existing score Create new score Save edits Save As to another file Print Close the file Exit / Quit Export score to a WAV audio file PC: CTRL + Z Mac: + Z
PC: CTRL + Y Mac: SHIFT+ + Y

PC: CTRL + O Mac: + O PC: CTRL + N Mac: + N PC: CTRL + S Mac: + S

PC: SHIFT+ CTRL + S Mac: SHIFT + + S

PC: CTRL + G Mac: + G SHIFT + ENTER SHIFT + mouse wheel down SHIFT + mouse wheel up

PC: CTRL + P Mac: + P PC: CTRL + W Mac: + W PC: CTRL + Q Mac: + Q

PC: SHIFT+ CTRL + E Mac: SHIFT + + E

Editing Tools
Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Duplicate Express entry

Highlight
A measure Entire score Double-click anywhere in measure PC: CTRL + A Mac: + A

PC: CTRL + X Mac: + X PC: CTRL + C Mac: + C PC: CTRL + V Mac: + V PC: CTRL + D Mac: + D Press single quote then start typing

Import/Input
Import the contents of a file Start real-time input Start step-time input
PC: SHIFT+ CTRL + I Mac: SHIFT + + I

PC: CTRL + R Mac: + R PC: CTRL + E Mac: + E

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Play
Play Adjust tempo faster Adjust tempo slower Stop SPACEBAR UP ARROW DOWN ARROW SPACEBAR or ESC

Move Playback Marker

Next measure Previous measure Next Rehearsal mark Previous Rehearsal mark Rewind where you last started Return to beginning ] [ SHIFT + ] SHIFT + [ BACKSPACE HOME or BACKSPACE (2x)

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Quick Open
Score Setup Open or close Mixer VSTi interface for staff Key Signature dialog box Times Signature dialog box Preferences Help PC: CTRL + T Mac: + T PC: CTRL + / Mac: + / PC: CTRL + I Mac: + I SHIFT + K SHIFT + M Mac: + comma Mac: SHIFT + +/ [?]

SequencerStaff
Overdub just controller settings Overdub on top of previous track start real-time input and press SPACEBAR
PC: SHIFT + CTRL + R Mac: SHIFT + + R

Select marks you want to change, then: Move mark Shorten duration Lengthen duration Change pitch LEFT/RIGHT ARROW keys SHIFT + LEFT ARROW SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW Drag or press UP/DOWN ARROW

Quick ways to zoom:

Zoom in:

PC: CTRL + = Mac: + = Zoom out: PC: CTRL + - Mac: + Zoom to: PC: SHIFT + CTRL + = Mac: SHIFT + + =

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