MusicScore is a program that offers to its users all the necessary tools to create, customize and share music.
The moment you enter the program, you realize that in order to use it you need to have at least some basic music creation knowledge, such as notes, instruments, and staves. Even though you possess this kind of knowledge, the GUI might seem complex for a novice user. It has two skin themes, grey and dark, both having a professional look. The menu is well-structured and delimited, the buttons icons are very visible and responsive at the same time.
Besides having a comprehensive design, MuseScore has multiple supported file formats and numerous visual and technical customization options.
It provides support for a wide range of formats, from MID, WAV, FLAC, OGG to PDF and PNG. This way, depending on necessities, the user always has an export option to choose from.
With MusicScore, you can write music for different instruments, such as piano, guitar, orchestra, jazz, choir, or band, each instrument having its personalized features.
Moreover, this program allows you to transfer to and from other programs through MusicXML or MIDI.
All in all, MusicScore comes as a software solution for individuals who love music, but love to create more, and who have a certain degree of understanding music notes and staves. Besides this, the program is highly responsive, has an attractive interface and multiple useful features.
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.
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