DANIEL FISHER: My name is Dan Fisher, and I represent the company, Notion. Our core products include Notion, Notion Academic, Protégé, and Progression, and I’m here today to talk about Progression.

What is Progression? Progression is the first software product that enables you to write for guitar via tab or notation and hear it back instantly with realistic sounds that you can control. With built-in audio samples, amp simulators, and VST effects, it’s fast and easy to turn raw talent into real music that you can hear, save, and share.

You can work with killer audio samples from top performers like Neil Zaza on guitar, Victor Wooten on bass, and Roy “Futureman” Wooten on drum kit. Included are upright bass, grand piano, and Fender Rhodes. You can also change your tone with integrated VST amp simulators and effects, integrated with IK Multimedia’s Amplitube 2 Duo. You can see, learn, and write chords with our interactive chord library. You can use alternate tuning or add and remove strings, import and export MIDI files, music XML files, and save your music to audio files.

Let me show you an example of some of the sounds that you can hear right out of the box with your notation with Progression.

[DANIEL FISHER PLAYING A SCORE IN NOTION MUSIC PROGRESSION]

Again, this sample is a very good example of how you can hear electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drum kit, and keyboards all in this one piece. Hear the acoustic guitar, very real.

[DANIEL FISHER PLAYING A SCORE IN NOTION MUSIC PROGRESSION]

That’s a real good example of how you can hear the real sounds of the performers, and as you start getting into the notation mode, you can actually get those real sounds and you have full control over the effects and the sound effects of each one. When you start opening progression from the very beginning, you’ll see on this template here that you have the regular music staff and a tablature line. From here, you can actually notate in both either regular music staff or just on tablature, and to do so you basically have the side bar over to the right here that gives you all the flexibility that you need to start composing and writing for guitar.

We also have an active fretboard that you can actually include notes in and you can actually pick out any particular note on the fretboard and that will automatically be placed on the music staff, but you can also enter in notation by via MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar, and MIDI drum kit. To do so, let me click on the side bar here and just get a quarter note. Now, I can click and drag that quarter note, and you can actually hear the guitar play, and you can see where it actually drops it down into the tablature line. You can actually use it as well, on the computer keyboard that is, Q would be for quarter note, H would be for half note, E for eighth note, and let me just give you a kind of idea here. If I just change this to half note rest or half note, W for whole note, whole note rest if I hit it again, E for eighth note/eighth note rest. If I wanted to continue on with the eighth note, I just keep on clicking on and being able to create my own composition.

[DANIEL FISHER EDITING A SCORE IN NOTION MUSIC PROGRESSION]

And if I wanted to play that back right away, all I have to do is hit the play bar up here.

[DANIEL FISHER PLAYING A SCORE IN NOTION MUSIC PROGRESSION]

So, this gives you a real sense of real sounds that you can hear back exactly how you want to have it played.

[DANIEL FISHER PLAYING A SCORE IN NOTION MUSIC PROGRESSION]