v4.1 [Jul 15, 2023]
- 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.
- 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 feature where the selected measure is displayed in braille music notation in a panel below the score and on connected 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.
- 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.
v3.34 [Sep 20, 2019]
Fixes:
- Palette names were scrambled and nearly impossible to read (Windows 7).
- Scale of palette was incorrect for high and low DPI displays.
- Courtesy accidentals disappeared after an octave change using Ctrl(Cmd) Up/Down.
- Crash reports could not be sent.
v3.2.3.7635 [Jun 26, 2019]
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 for percussion) 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 the 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.
v2.3.2 [Jul 4, 2018]
New features
- #273032: Implement extensions to provide an easy way to install soundfont, templates and instruments.xml.
- #256021: Add buzz roll tremolo stem.
- #271198: Add a more flexible way to choose noteheads in drumset for percussion instrument.
- #271723: Implement filters in Zerberus.
- #272276: Add ability to have a different MIDI pitch for drum instrument based on articulation or tremolo.
- Implemented flams and crush notation for unpitched percussion.
Playback
- Fix #270996: No sound on upgrade to 2.2 if default soundfont was saved as default.
- Fix #271717: Match the default tempo in New Score Wizard.
- Fix #272377: 'Follow text' is not applied to tempo text.
Zerberus
- Fix #222031: remove ties and spanners when removing induvidual notes within a chord.
- Fix #271718: clicking noise fix.
- Fix #271719: sound accumulation on noteOff.
- Fix #271722: long release samples do not play in their entirety.
- Fix #272687: Unable to select an SFZ playback for a drum instrument.
- Fix #273150: incorrect off_by processing.
- Fix #273241: incorrect loading sample when use comment line.
User interface
- #273511: Order notes in Drum Input Palette like in instruments.xml.
- #269952: Allow new templates to be seen without restart.
- Follow macOS platform conventions for window title and dirty state.
- Use setWindowModified to display * in window title.
- Fix #8808: Add option to limit scroll area of the navigator and the score view.
- Fix #117236: Honor 'pan score' button during edits.
- Fix #153691: Drumtools palette not closing when switching between files.
- Fix #268016: No message on second keyboard shortcut already in use.
- Fix #271074: Image capture with transparent background empty when pasting into other programs on Windows (reverted Fix #209596: Screencapture Copy Transparency issue).
- Fix #271935: Wrong voice button is highlighted after unsuccessful voice change.
- Fix #273672: Right align "Double augmentation dot" in preferences dialog.
- Fix #272153: Notes for transposing instrument are shown in concert pitch on piano control.
Crashes and corruptions fixed
- Fix #76751: MuseScore crashes when opening plugin manager after adding new plugin.
- Fix #270850: Changes to a score cause all fermatas over a barline to be discarded.
- Fix #271039: crash when closing score after changing tempo in play panel.
- Fix #271161: crashes on certain tuplets due to failure to sanitize.
- Fix #271299: Errors with multiple clefs.
- Fix #271325: Adjusting a note outside the range of a piano causes a crash when the piano keyboard is visible.
- Fix #272172: Remove tuplets after inserting measures causes corruption/crash.
- Fix crash in MusicXML import when drumset instrument has no midi- unpitched.
Score layout
- Fix #253926: Key signature not displaying correctly on clef change at the start of a score.
- Fix #267602: Measure shifts back and forth with each layout.
- Fix #269404: Line/Ottava Text properties do not apply user- defined vertical offsetting properly.
- Fix #271187: Bad canvas position when operating near right margin with vertical stacking.
- Fix #271450: Double- click to set breaks on frames.
- Fix #271529: Incorrect stem position for some noteheads in layout.
- Fix #272023: Downstem mirrored notes lose accidental.
- Fix #272066: Canvas improperly positioned when setting zoom level.
- Fix #272390: Measure numbering by interval should take 1st measure number into account.
- Fix #272691: No naturals in key sig after mmrest.
- Fix #273555: Checking "Show first" with an interval of 1 for measure numbers only shows measure number 1.
- Fix #273305: Courtesy clef hide/show issue.
Instruments
- Reworked instruments.xml.
- Fix #271103: Add 7- string guitar and Cavaquinho (4- strings guitar).
- Add missing 5- string staff type, append 7- and 8- string tablature types.
- Don't show presets for more strings than the instrument is set up for, esp. counting only fretted strings, i.e. non- open strings.
Import/Export
- Fix #271707: MusicXML export: crash when exporting hairpins.
- Fix #271840: MusicXML import: no barlines when using property.
- Fix #272062: Opening of some MusicXML files caused MuseScore to crash.
Miscellaneous
- Fix #270496: Add missing elements to incomplete tuplets when reading from a file.
- Fix #272042: Saved preferences override command line options.
- Debian fix: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898757. Fix crash when starting with piano open.
- Allow path to be relative to stored album file.
- Fix #273660 : MIDI Keyboard Not Responded when Pressed Before Opening a Score.
v2.2.1 [Mar 28, 2018]
-New MuseScore_General.sf3 soundfont
-Fix #5163: MIDI output
-Fix #208006: Built-in MP3 support for Windows (finding and installing third-party DLL no longer necessary)
-Fix #183336: Search field in New Score Wizard template chooser
-Fix #56451, fix #44666: Option to select whether to "Play repeats" for jump elements (D.S. al Coda, etc.)
-Fix #269672: Selected notes are highlighted on the piano keyboard
-Fix #184246: Select / More: ability to distinguish same pitch on a specific string in tablature
-Fix #239021: All elements are now selectable by voice
-Fix #198486: Copy and paste of multiple fretboards
-Fix #175886: Fretboards can be added to chord symbols
v2.1.0 [May 3, 2017]
New note input modes allow you to play music on a MIDI keyboard in real time and have MuseScore transcribe both pitches and rhythms, either using the built-in metronome or your foot pedal to keep the tempo
New input mode to allow entry of rhythm first, pitches later
New command to rewrite rhythms to show beat divisions according to time signature rules
New and improved commands to change duration of existing notes while in note input mode, including adding and removing augmentation dots
Synthesizer improvements, including updates to the default SoundFont and better support for SFZ format
Ability to upload audio to MuseScore.com along with your score, so others can hear your score with your chosen SoundFont or SFZ
Improved historical tablature support, including lute bass strings
When changing instruments mid-score (e.g., from flute to clarinet), the transposition is now handled correctly
Improved selection controls, including the ability to select notes of the same pitch, duration, or notehead, and the ability to select or deselect all element types in the Selection Filter
New command to swap selection with clipboard (simultaneously paste to and copy from the selected range)
More controls: ability to reorder score tabs, customize pause length of breaths and caesuras, add/remove brackets on accidentals, set MP3 bitrate, add page breaks when creating albums, include fingering in tablature staves
New and improved templates and instruments, including various marching bands and percussion ensembles, a general percussion staff, more standard clefs for basses, additional ethnic instruments
UI improvements in Staff Properties, New Score Wizard, Edit Drumset, and other windows
v2.0 [Jan 21, 2015]
Start Center
- This startup window will initially invite you to create a new score, guiding you to the revamped score wizard featuring new visualized templates. Next time you startup MuseScore, the Start Center will list your most recent works. Also shown is a community section where you can search for scores and find each day a MuseScore user put in the spotlight.
- It contains a number of useful functions like explode/implode, slash notation, add/remove line breaks, and automatic rehearsal mark sequencing.
- There are a few other improvements as well, such as new options for more control over chord symbols, some enhancements to automatic fingering layout, and refinements to palette customization. But most of all, tons of bug fixes!
v1.3 [Feb 27, 2013]
- Fix #19148: Distortion in sound playback after several measures of play due to reverb
- Improve the stability of the sequencer and user interface interaction
- Fix crash when loading files with invalid tuplet
- Fix crash when exporting parts with voltas
- Fix possible crash during MusicXML import
- Fix crash when changing voices without valid input state
- Fix #16692: Save and Save As dialogue boxes fail to open when Title contains colon
- Fix last element in file format combo box in the File -> Open Dialog is empty on Mac OS X
- Fix Two percussion clefs in palette
- Fix #16301: Verbose program listing in Add/Remove Programs
- Change default shortcut for voices to Ctrl Alt Voice number (Previous shortcuts were not working on Mac)
- Fix small icons on Windows and Mac
- Add 1024x1024 icons on Mac OSX for retina display
- Fix: Fermata applied to rest isn’t positioned where it was placed until score is saved and re-opened
- Better looking new score wizard on Mac OS X
- Fix: Two invisible boxes in 'Lines'
- Windows binaries are now signed with an Authenticode certificate
- Windows installer is also available in MSI format to ease the deployment of MuseScore through Group Policy
- Both Windows installers are signed with an Authenticode certificate
