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I wonder if they'll announce anything at NAMM.. You'd think they would but I'm betting they already did with Monday's announcements. The last two years, Fender was in attendance at NAMM but in an area not open to general attendees. A company has to make an appointment for their buyer who partners with a salesperson with a clipboard prepared to take your dealer order. Being the Owner/Admin for my company, I could sign someone up but I've never been a Fender dealer and don't intend to start now. I don't need to occupy the same niche as my local Guitar Center. Like almost all attendees, I'm hoping that Fender is more visible at NAMM this year but I'm not holding my breath.
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Hello Mike,
where have you seen this annoncment hat Notion 7 will becomme part of fender studio pro subscription?
Right now I run the desktop app on windows, but a "real" Notion 7 might be the better option. There is a learning curve with the app.
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The pace of announcements and clarifications is furious, but my understanding is there is no Notion 7 and there will not be one.
Support for Notion 6, which has been unchanged in about five years, ends a year from now, but it will keep running as it is.
Fender Notion is the new name of their free mobile app.
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I just bought SOP7 (not the subscription one) before Xmas to complete my DAW library - and I did. I still don't get why so many like it - I find it NOT intuitive but I have yet to find the perfect or even best DAW.
In any case, brought it, BIAB 2026. And a few other items then something hit me like a truck full of rocks fell on me. Initially thought it was a severe flare up of my sciatica- turns out it was a whole lot worse. Blood infection (still being treated) and L4/L5 crushed disk out of nowhere with no contributing falls, incorrect bending, lifting etc.
Hospitalized 20 Dec moved to skilled nursing facility on 2 Jan where I am now - missed Xmas, our wedding anniversary (two days after xmas), and New Years. Probably stuck here until either 30 Jan when I see infectious disease folks or at worst 10 Feb when my daily antibiotic treatment, via a PICC line, ends.
So far all treatment is 99% for the blood infection and very little physical/occupational therapy for back pain which is why I went to emergency room on 20 Dec in the first place - LOL.
PS- Wife has stage 3/4 lung cancer found in Jan last year. Should say."had" we are waiting for next PET/CT scan IN March to see how well post chemo & post radiation treatment with a now a every 6 week infusion has shrunk tumor further. She responded well to chemo and radiation treatment tumor shrunk significantly.
I'm a type 2 diabetic, with artificial aortic value and stent in LAD (96% blockage), aforementioned sciatica, as well as lost vision in right eye this past year (wet macula degeneration literally over night - went to bed on Sunday night early July woke up Monday blind).
Besides whining about my health issues. Reading about what's going on with S.O. reminds this aged pain riddled mediocre guitar player about Cakewalk, me dropping it a year out from Gibson letting Sonar Platinum (suppose to be "lifetime" upgrade product ha, ha, ha) go tango uniform.
I dont expect to see Studio One in a year or, two at the outside. But I am a pain ridden, semi- hospitalized eternal pessimist so it's probably the morphine talking - LOL
Good luck all
Larry
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Larry, It has been quite a year for you and your wife. I can't express how sorry I am over your health issues. Both you and your wife are in my thoughts and prayers. Blood infections are difficult to treat. It takes a long time to get the infection out of your body. Once the infection is gone I'm sure the doctors will work on repairing your crushed disk and rehab. I hope your wife's PET scan show positive results. By the way, right now the morphine drip button is your best friend; enjoy it. 
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Larry, sorry to hear about all of your health problems. I hope you and your wife both have complete recoveries. Meanwhile take it easy, don't get to excited, and follow your doctor's orders.
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Hello Matt,
I am not sure if Fender Notion does have all the features, I do not use the product on an expert Level. It does however all I can think of.
Yet, there is a learning curve beyond getting used to the GUI. The shortcuts differ a lot. Besides entering note names (e. pressing "W" for whole note) other things have changed. You not get a "Slur" anymore from [SHIFT] S but it is [ALT] S now. And the less "important" an option is, the more deviation from what one is used to happens.
All the above applies to the Fender Notion Desktop App from the Windows App Store (I do not know about other Versions behaviour).
And just Like Fender Studio is a "minimalised" Version of Fender Studio Pro, Fender Notion is not Fender Notion Desktop! While Fender Notion is free (as far as I know), this full fledged Notion is part of the suscription. You only have Access with a Subscription to Fender Studio Pro +
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In case anyone else misunderstood the terms for getting the Fender Studio Pro upgrade: I had purchased the non-subscription Presonus Studio Pro 7 and just found that Fender Studio Pro was registered to me as a gift in January. So if you think this is an extra cost upgrade, can't hurt to check your account...
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It appears that I can still use Notion 6 on my Mac except that it can't use 64 bit plugins and VIs... that doesn't fly.
Ok... There's a "free" Fender Notion 7 upgrade in the App Store that will open my .notion files but wait—it can't be installed on my Mac ?!?!/!? On further poking around, this will only run on my iPad as a sidecar to my Mac. Oh hell no. I do have Notion for iPad and that upgrade was free last month but I'm not using it as a sidecar app.
I hadn't fired up the desktop version in a couple years, my client who needed me to have Notion upgraded his copy of Sibelius so that need is gone. Yes, I can open these files in Studio Pro but I have no need for yet anther DAW. I never created new work in N5/6 anyway so farewell to yet another notation app that has outlived its usefulness.
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