NOTION's Rhythm Section and Expanded Mallets 1 Sound Kits Now Shipping
January 19, 2007
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NOTION Music, makers of NOTION® music composition and performance
software, is now shipping Sessions: Rhythm Section, their first sound kit featuring pop, rock, R&B and jazz sounds as
well as Expanded Mallets 1 Sound Expansion Kit. The company also announces Solo Strings 1, the newest addition to a
rapidly expanding sound kit library for NOTION products.
Now shipping, "Sessions: Rhythm Section" supplements NOTION's traditional orchestral library with the sounds of a
contemporary rhythm section, featuring bass and drum set samples performed by Victor and Roy Wooten at Dark Horse Studios in
Nashville and electric guitar samples performed by Vernon Reid at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The drum set includes
various techniques for 6-piece drum set and a broad variety of techniques and dynamics are included for electric bass and electric
guitar. Upright bass, Fender Rhodes™ electric piano, and Hohner Clavinet™ are also included.
"Expanded Mallets 1" adds marimba, vibraphone, crotales and chimes to the NOTION sound library. Techniques included are
strikes and rolls from a 5-octave marimba, strikes on chimes and strikes on crotales. Vibraphone has strikes and rolls with motor
off, slow motor speed, fast motor speed and pedal up.
Solo Strings 1, due out in the spring of 2007, will add solo violin, viola, cello, and bass to the stock London Symphony Orchestra
sounds in NOTION. Each recorded performance will include legato, staccato, pizzicato, accent, half-step trill, and whole-step trill
articulations as well as multiple samples to interpret dynamics, slurs, and other articulations used within NOTION.
The violin played on Solo Strings 1 is a 1698 Antonius Stradivarius on loan from the Royal Academy of Music and played by
Carmine Lauri, co-leader of the London Symphony Orchestra. The viola is a late 16th century Antonio Brenzi played by Edward
Vanderspar, principal viola player of the London Symphony Orchestra. The cello is by Matteo Gofriller, made in Venice circa 1710,
played by Moray Welsh, principal cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra. The double bass is an 1840s Thomas Kennedy "flat
back" from Oxford Street in London, played by Colin Paris, co-principal double bassist of the London Symphony Orchestra.
NOTION is designed for students, composers and musicians on all levels as a tool for composition, learning, practice, and live
performance. It combines a full-featured music notation system with interpretive algorithms linked to a proprietary playback engine
that offers samples of thousands of individual notes and articulations played by the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded at
Abbey Road Studios.
Pricing and Availability
Sound Kits for NOTION are available for $29-$89 each at www.notionmusic.com.
For more information, visit their web site at www.notionmusic.com.
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