MuseScore 4.3 Release

New features in MuseScore 4.3

• New "sound flags" can now be accessed via stave text when using Muse Sounds instruments, offering a choice of various instrument modifications and playing techniques that can be heard in playback.
• The drumset panel now updates to show available sounds depending on instrument selection in the mixer.
• Various percussion mapping improvements.
• New options for controlling visibility of clefs and key signatures, as well as ties and parentheses on tablature staves.
• New option in Format menu to "reset entire score to default layout".
• Improved quality of MusicXML import.
• Improved placement of slurs that cross system breaks.
• Tempo change lines can now be extended across systems using keyboard shortcut.
• Improved selection box behaviour, resolving an issue with continuous view.
• Resolved playback issue with repeats after section breaks.
• Resolved issues where notation elements were disappearing from parts.
• Resolved Muse Sounds playback issue affecting overlapping unison notes.
• Resolved issue affecting unintended deletion of melisma lines.
• Updated product name to "MuseScore Studio" throughout the app.
• Fixed numerous crashes.

See the full list of changes in our project on GitHub.

MuseScore 4.2.1 Release

MuseScore 4.2.1 is now available!

This release fixes a number of crashes and improves the stability of the app.

For details, please see completed tasks in the 4.2.1 project.

MuseScore 4.2 Release

MuseScore 4.2 is now available!

MuseScore 4.2 introduces support for Muse Sounds Guitars, Vol. 1 -- a free library of highly realistic guitar sounds.

Watch the release video.

In addition, this release contains myriad engraving, playback, and interaction improvements, including:

• A new system for notating guitar bends, including playback support
• A new system for easily displaying alternate string tunings for plucked string instruments
• Much improved control over synchronicity of notation elements between main score and parts
• The ability to select individual sounds within SoundFonts, and a bespoke system for categorising sounds in our default SoundFont, MS Basic
• An enhanced upload flow to audio.com, including the ability to replace existing audio files online
• A convenient list view for seeing all your scores in the Home tab
• The ability to open scores in the desktop app directly from musescore.com
• Playback support for harp glissandi via the harp pedal widget
• Microtonal playback support
• A new note input mode for Braille music notation (Thanks to @daisy and @SMCenter)
• "A tempo" and "primo tempo" elements in Palettes (Thanks to community contributor @rtbo)
• The option to import/export scores in the MEI file format (Thanks to community contributors @lpugin and @rettinghaus).

In addition, please see this document for a complete list of engraving improvements, including:

• Improved handling of arpeggios spanning multiple staves and voices,
• More placement options for ties
• Significant layout and interaction improvements
• MusicXML improvements
• A multitude of refinements to key signatures, time signatures and parts (Thanks to community contributor @sammik).

MuseScore 4.2 Beta 2

See dedicated project with changelog.

Added experimental builds for ARM Linux and portable Windows. These haven't been tested as thoroughly as the other builds. Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

MuseScore 4.2 Beta

See dedicated project with changelog.

Edit: Added experimental builds for ARM Linux and portable Windows. These haven't been tested as thoroughly as the other builds. Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

MuseScore 4.1.1 Release

This release fixes a number of crashes and introduces some stability improvements.

MuseScore 4.1 Release

New features in MuseScore 4.1

• New engraving and playback support for ornaments, including the ability to set custom alterations for trills, turns and mordents
• A major improvement to the app's performance, allowing larger scores to play back up to 60% more efficiently
• A dedicated new default reverb, which can be adjusted for each instrument track as well as globally across the entire mix
• New auxiliary sends in the mixer, allowing instrument tracks to be routed to dedicated auxiliary channel strips for applying audio effects
• New engraving and playback support for capos on guitar staves
• New feature for displaying harp pedal diagrams
• Dynamics and expression text now automatically combine, plus new controls for scaling and positioning dynamics
• New live Braille module, including a panel that displays selected measures as Braille music notation (enabling more efficient score reading on Braille displays)
• Upload audio directly to audio.com, allowing you to build a portfolio of your audio content to share with the world 
• View and open your online scores from musescore.com directly from the desktop app 

Other updates

• Save to cloud: option to make a score "unlisted"
• Publish to musescore.com: option to either replace the existing published score, or publish the score as a new file
• New loading screen when opening multiple instances of the app on macOS 
• Fixed syllable-based pasting of lyrics
• A more reliable VST scanning process
• Around 100 engraving fixes and improvements (Read this article on musescore.org for a complete list)
• Numerous bug fixes

MuseScore 4.1 Release Candidate

See dedicated project with changelog

MuseScore 4.0.2 Release

This patch release contains fixes for numerous issues, and also includes some significant usability and engraving improvements.

Score corruption fixes

• Multiple issues causing score corruption have been fixed
• Part scores are now scanned for corruptions
• There is now a more comprehensive system for alerting you when there are corruptions identified on your score (including a mechanism to help you avoid saving those corruptions)

Usability improvements

• The Properties panel has been improved so it's possible to edit the visibility, colour and play settings of individual notes within chords
• Toggling visibility of notes within chords now produces more predictable results
• Images in frames can now be deleted
• Parts can now be reset to their original layout
• The UI is now easier to interact with when the user is holding the mouse unsteadily
• The audio export process can now be cancelled
• There's a new feature to save relevant diagnostic files (making it easier to get support from MuseScore developers)

Performance enhancements

• Major improvements to how MuseScore handles with WASAPI (Benefits Windows users)

Bugs squashed and regressions repaired

• Various crashes have been fixed (including numerous VST-related crashes)
• Zoom controls in the status bar are easier to use and more intuitive
• Various problems with the visual behaviour of the app on second monitors are now resolved
• Text line spacing option has been reinstated in Properties
• Some playback problems have been resolved, including when entering tablature notation, and when changing the tempo using the tempo slider
• Multiple other minor bug fixes

A ton of engraving fixes and improvements

• Multiple fixes to system-line objects
• Several errors arising from setting notes to cue size are resolved
• Fixes to the behaviour of system objects
• Various fixes to the behaviour of stems
• Voices now align correctly in 'full' tab staves
• Sticking in percussion music no longer breaks slurs
• Slurs now show correctly in parts when only some voices are displayed
• Cross-page glissando lines have been finessed
• Various collisions have been resolved (clefs and key signatures, accidentals and cross-staff beams)

Please see the 4.0.2 project for the complete list of issues addressed in this release

MuseScore 4.0.1 Release

Highlights

• Fixed a crash on startup with specific VST instruments present
• Fixed a crash on deleting particular staves
• Fixed a hang on startup involving WASAPI
• Fixed corruption on adding or removing beats or measures in certain cases
• Fixed shortcuts using numeric keypad
• Fixed issues involving system elements and parts
• Fixed issues with playback start position
• Fixed chord symbol playback on transposing staves

For the full list of changes, please see dedicated project.