PreSonus has unveiled Progression 3, a greatly enhanced version of the popular composing software for guitar, bass, and drums. The new version is designed for fast operation that allows you to get your music notated quickly, with an improved chord library, new effects taken from PreSonus Studio One (including the PreSonus Native Effects Limiter, Compressor, and EQ plug-ins), a Capo feature, and many notation and publishing improvements, such as extensive cross-staff beaming support, stemless slashes for leadsheets, articulation adjustment enhancements, and much, much more.
Progression files can be easily exchanged among Mac (with added Retina display support), Windows (with Windows 8 touchscreen optimization), and iPad devices for convenient composing and notation wherever you may be. The user interface has been redesigned in the style of Studio One and other PreSonus software for easier, more intuitive operation.
New Features in Progression:
Studio
- Audio upsampling for export
- Export audio of each staff or bus as an individual stem
- New PreSonus Native Effects plug-ins from Studio One®: Compressor, Limiter, EQ
Notation
- Cross-staff beaming:
Notes can be beamed across staves, from left to right hands, for grand staff instruments (piano, clavinet, electric piano)
Arpeggios and glissandi will work across both staves
- Chords:
Expanded chord library and characters
Recent-chord picker
Design custom chord symbols and diagrams
Chord symbols now vertically align on the page
Chords remain on fretboard for repeated entry
Chord diagrams can be edited on fretboard
Drag score items for exact placement
Improvement of note spelling in MIDI entry
- Add Capo feature
- Select and copy all lyrics
- Add extended melisma line to lyrics
- Stemless slashes for leadsheets
- Ability to change font for all score text items
- Flip enharmonics of a region and of selected notes
- Copy-and-paste in specific voices
- Add ties in step time
- Cautionary key and clef
- Out-of-range notes turn different color
- Multiple first-time repeat endings
- In Multi-Voice entry, move staccato articulation to center the articulation with the note stem
- Allow user to manually move articulations vertically
- Add ability to set the articulation to a particular side of a note
User Interface
- Retina display (Mac)
- Touchscreen optimization for Windows 8
- Sibelius and Finale number pad shortcut set options
- Localization in U.S. and British English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin American Spanish
- New international keyboard shortcut set to utilize numbers for rhythms rather than letters
- User interface redesign to reflect PreSonus Studio One style
Fixes and improvements:
- Ties in grand staff voices now show the correct way up
- Playback of chord extensions now possible (when using rhythm slashes)
- Bracketed groups now showing on imported MIDI files
- Option to keep mixer on top
- Allow a mix of stems up and stems down in a beam group
- Fix exporting chord extensions in MusicXML
- Tuplet numbers show as default on the stem side, rather than note side
- Quick Reference Guide updated and localized
- User Guide fully updated
- Issue with accidentals on grand staff now fixed
- Fix the ends of slurs colliding with staccato
- Fix slurs being attached occasionally to wrong voice
- Fix ability to change stem direction for middle voices in a measure that has more than two voices
