MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate 3

October 26, 2019

Improvements

• Improve algorithm for determining start point for note input
• Simplify and improve usability of the Note Input Workflow
• Move the viewport to show actual changes in the score if they are outside of the current view

Fixes

• Fix a couple of issues related to Roman Numerical Analysis

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.3rc3

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.0-RC3.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate 2

October 22, 2019

Improvements

• Current workspace is automatically saved on each action that changes the workspace
• Basic and Advanced workspaces are automatically marked as "edited" if you customise palettes or toolbars
• Palettes and workspaces can be reset to the default state defined by the workspace you started customisations from
• Add time delay when dragging palette elements to avoid occasional moving palette cells

Fixes

• It was impossible to use keyboard with palettes on macOS if any additional window appears while working with the palettes
• Filters (F6) for Lyrics and Chord Symbols were mixed up
• Unable to consequently insert symbols from a palette in text editing mode
• Lyrics Y offset in parts was lost on save/reload
• It was impossible to enter successive sticking elements
• MuseScore crashed when undoing adding an instrument in continuous view
• Delete confirmation appeared several times when deleting multiple cells

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.3rc2

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.0-RC2.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate

October 02, 2019

New

• Save Online is now fully synchronised with the musescore.com upload page

Improvements

• Implement changing palette and palette cell properties on fly
• Visual style of the palettes

Fixes

• Loop playback was set incorrectly in parts
• Shortcuts navigation across the palettes was broken
• Changing workspaces when installing/removing extensions led to a crash
• Palettes and palette cells were not translated
• Save/Load palettes were not implemented

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.3rc

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.0-RC.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.3 Beta Update

Improvements

• Various accessibility improvements improvements
• Made more elements available for screen readers
• Improved the information interpreted by screen readers

Fixes

• "Single palette" option was not implemented
• Palettes appearance was broken and wasn't aligned with the MuseScore styling
• Dark theme was not correctly supported in new palettes
• Note value repeat section: setting "Never" was broken
• Undo didn't restore a deleted frame
• NVDA screen reader didn't work

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.3beta2

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.0-Beta2.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.3 Beta

New

• Add support for Roman numeral analysis & Nashville notation
• Complete redesign of the Palettes panel

Improvements

• Symbols now can be added to barlines
• Play Panel layout
• In Edit mode, keyboard arrows now change horizontal offset rather than leading space
• Multiple accessibility improvements
• Multiple improvements to the Plugin API
• Make use of the existing accordion palette

Fixes

• Various fixes for the playback of tied notes, muted voices and notes being edited in parts
• Sticking was not linked between score and parts
• Note symbols were truncated in Tab Preview
• Some Buttons looked grayed-out in dark mode
• The presence of fretboard diagrams prevented input of chord symbols in other staves
• Removing a custom workspace caused a crash
• Multiple fixes for MusicXML Export/Import
• Letter score in landscape orientation exported as A4 in score+parts PDF

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.3beta

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.0-Beta.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.2.3

Fixes

• Articulations didn't play properly in MDL instruments
• Tuplets layout was broken in some cases
• Fingering jumped unpredictably in some cases
• Score_and_Parts pdfs were garbled when using MuzeJazz font on macOS
• Switching between workspaces erased the enabled plugins

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.2.3.zip instead.

Musescore 3.2.2

Fixes

• Significant performance drop on macOS 10.14+ machines
• The Menu Bar entries under Plug-Ins were empty

Important note!

• Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use Musescore-3.2.2.zip instead
• macOS 10.10/10.11 packages will pass by Musescore 3.2.2 update

Musescore 3.2.1

New

• Official builds for macOS 10.10 and 10.11 are now available

Fixes

• Sticking was lost on reloading scores
• The position data of articulations (above, below) was lost after saving
• Empty score crashed when playing in some cases

Complete list of issues resolved is available here.
More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.2.1

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use
Musescore-3.2.1.zip instead.

Musescore 3.2

New

• Default to dark theme on macOS if Dark Mode (available as of 10.14 Mojave) is the system-wide preference
• Sticking (the process of assigning certain notes to either our left or right hand) as a new command

Improvements

• Make basic colors of the application including voice colors consistent
• 7/8 time signature was added to advanced workspace and master palette
• Avoid poor alignment of hairpins to dynamics bound to the segment before hairpin start
• Add style settings allowing MDL templates to follow basic drum line notation rules better
• Double/triple-clicking in a text editing mode now selects a word/paragraph respectively

Fixes

• Playback tempo was incorrect when working in continuous view
• Playback tempo set to defaults in some cases when editing score elements
• Tempo changes set fermata time stretch to defaults
• Tuplets and articulations were laid out incorrectly
• Layout shift in a measure at start of a system happened in some cases
• Multi-measure rests created unexpected key signatures in some cases
• Key signature appeared in multi measure rest after being deleted from underlying measure
• Side panels were not dockable after being undocked and closed once
• Mixer panel disappeared in some cases
• Mixer didn't remember changes in the channels
• Changing clef didn't have an effect in combination with multi measure rest
• Сopying/pasting a clef into an another clef crashed Musescore
• Right-click / Edit Element with a different element selected led to crash
• Exporting parts from a score didn't produce correct MIDI, MP3, WAV, OGG, and FLAC files

Complete list of issues resolved is available here.
More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.2

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use
MuseScore-3.2.0.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.1

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use
MuseScore-3.1.0.zip instead.

New

• Single-note dynamics playback - long notes can play dynamic changes
• Updated soundfont that supports single-note dynamics out of the box
• High quality soundfont with better strings and synth instruments available as an extension in the Resource Manager
• Option to completely disable Auto Placement
• Elements can cross staves still participating in Auto Placement
• Half-time/Double-time feature that shortens and lengthens rhythms on copy-pasting
• Linearization feature that unrolls all repeats
• Internal computational approach that allows creating 256th, 512th, 1024th notes and any kind of compound tuplets
• Online documentation for Plugin API is available

Improvements

• Playback starts immediately on large scores
• Continuous view performance was significantly improved
• The layout of the scores imported from MuseScore 2 is now preserved
• Size and usability of Play Panel is now improved
• Add chord symbol support for fret diagrams
• Move the whole segment on dragging a note in edit mode
• Allow changing duration of multiple notes
• Select notes after deleting various elements
• Make copy-pasting hairpins possible
• Fix significant lag on iterating over notes with left-right arrows
• UI refinements including more streamlined Inspector
• "MuseScore File" string (under File -> Save As...) now indicates which version you are about to save (MuseScore 3)

Fixes

• System positions calculations allocated too much space
• Courtesy clefs and key signatures were positioned incorrectly around repeat barlines
• Cross-staff notation was incorrect in some cases
• Barlines spanning was wrong in some cases
• Barlines were incorrect when small and standard staves were mixed
• Piano keyboard display didn't update when adding accidental using toolbar or palette
• Side panels became undockable after being undocked and closed once
• Could not add proper slur to grace notes when there were more than one
• Layout of small staves was incorrect in some cases
• Key signatures displayed incorrectly after clef change
• Grace notes (after) collided with accidentals on main note
• Key signature disappeared in all but first stave
• Note's dot's visibility was incorrect when toggling visibility with note and dot selected
• Couldn't pan score while playing when a note was selected
• Instrument Change didn't transpose
• Couldn't delete clef change at the start of a system
• Accent-staccato didn't work in default template
• Some properties were not kept on saving score
• Incorrect key/time signatures and clefs appeared in the score in specific cases
• User-modified barlines were not linking correctly between staves of a score, parts, and multimeasure rests
• Ties were laid out incorrectly in some cases
• Problems with layout of with beams, slurs, tuplets, and tremolo in cross-staff notation
• Sizes and positions of some elements were not scaling correctly for small staves
• Brackets didn't appear after section break
• Users were automatically logged out after 5 hours when using Save Online
• Phrasing in target measure was not cleared on copy-pasting
• ChordIdentifier Plugin didn't work with MuseScore 3

More information is available on https://musescore.org/en/3.1