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.
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.
