Nye funktioner i MuseScore 0.9.5
Største nye funktioner
- Med udgivelsen af MuseScore 0.9.5 kommer den første stabile version for Mac OS X 10.4 og højere
- Skab lydfiler af dine partiturer vha. → (WAV, OGG, and FLAC)
- Du kan nu udvikle og benytte dine egne udvidelser
- Kender nu instrumenternes ambitus (MuseScore marker noder som ikke kan spilles af amatører som gule og røde hvis de ikke engang kan spilles af professionelle)
- Dobbeltklik for at åbne et MuseScore dokument
- Over 30 fejl, der kunne få programmet til at gå ned er rettet
Afspilning
- Dynamiske tegn har nu indflydelse på afspilningen. For eksempel vil ff afspilles kraftigere end mp
- 8va og 8vb har nu kun indflydelse på en enkelt stemme (som man ville forvente) i stedet for på alle stemmer i partituret
- Tempo skift afspilles nu korrekt i partiturer med gentagelser
- Al stemer afspilles under vha. standard
SoundFont'en. Tidligere afspilledes kun den øverste stemme med mindre du manuelt angav en General MIDI SoundFont
- Position af markøren i afspilnings panelet er nu mere korrekt
- Mixeren giver dig mulighed for at ændre instrumenters lyd under Windows. I Linux versionerne var dette allerede muligt
- Individuelle noder kan mikro-tune's op til 200 cents over eller under den originale noder via dialogboksen for node/akkord egenskaber. Tuning udvidelsen giver dig mulighed for at ændre pitch'en af for alle noder i et partitur
- Den interne FluidSynth er blevet omskrivet
- Reducerede processor belastning når programmet intet laver fra ti procent til næsten nul. MuseScore påfører nu kun chorus og reverbs hvis lyden er tilstede
- Hurtigere opstartstid of mindre hukommelsesforbrug især når der benyttes store SoundFont'e. MuseScore indlæser nu kun en sample hvis den er nødvendig.
Filer
- Sætter nu filtype associationen for MuseScore (".mscz" og ".mscx")
- Drag-and-drop af filer til MuseScore vinduet åbner nu filen under Windows (virkede allerede under Linux)
- Automatisk sletning af midlertidige filer med navne som f.eks. "msHp4124" under Windows
- Ny fil extension ".mscx" erstatter den tidligere ".msc". Den gamle extension var i konflite med en Windows system-fil
- Rettede en fejl vedrørende specielle karakterer (&<>\") i filnavne for komprimerede MuseScore filer
- Stemme udtrækning fungerer nu oftere uden at crash'e (buer, volter, og taktnumre over flere stemmer er ikke længere et problem)
- Eksporterer til en lydfil. Se Export for flere detaljer om WAV, OGG, and FLAC
- Forbedringer til import af MusicXML: genkender nu tekst stil, credits, meta-data, multi-takt pauser, og akkorder
- Forbedrninger til eksport af MusicXML: inkluderer nu information om side layout, credits, meta-data multi-takt pauser; rettede akkorder, percussion nøgle, tempo markeringer, taktbredde, korrekt rækkefølge af elementer i node tag, korrekt oktav for b for h
- Forbedrninger til MIDI-import: genkender nu toneart skift, copyright tekst
- Forbedringer til LilyPond-eksport: rettelser for H, C, and C# dur tonearter
- Implementerede en funktion der lader dig påføre en stil-fil til alle importerede partiturer
Bruger interface
- Close button appears on each tab similar to modern browsers instead of a single button off to the side
- Default shortcuts conform to platform conventions. For example Ctrl+Y for redo on Windows, Ctrl+Shift+Z for redo on Debian/Ubuntu
- Beginning note entry with the mouse in a selected measure no longer causes a crash (prominent crash introduced in 0.9.4)
- More instruments added to the new score wizard
- Drag-and-drop of dynamics now works
- Copy-paste of measures also includes chord names and lyrics
- Copy-paste of full-measure rests
- Note and rest split correctly across barline on paste
- Note entry mode
- Cursor now advances when you enter a rest
- Notes snap into correct positions so that a slightly misplaced mouse no longer divides existing notes into unexpected smaller durations (bug introduced in 0.9.4)
- Backspace undoes the previously added note
- Tuplet are created a little differently. See tuplet.
- Undo now works for the following
- Moving note up or down with mouse (pitch change)
- Changes to the Page Settings dialog
- Changes to Edit Text Style dialog
- Changes to Edit Style dialog
- Stem flip
- Part and staff property changes
- Measure stretch
- Added Slur to line palette (previously only available via keyboard shortcuts)
- Breath marks placed after the note it was dropped on instead of before
- Notes outside of the pitch range of an instrument appear red and notes only playable by professionals in yellow
- → allows you to jump to a measure
Notation
- Ledger lines
- Thicker lines to match standard engraving practice
- Half-note and whole-note rests in voice 2 have proper ledger lines
- Avoid touching other ledger lines when notes are close
- Automatically widen to reach noteheads on the opposite side of the stem
- Percussion
- Note entry for drums and percussion is less prone to crashes
- Drumset can include notes above staff
- New Score wizard no longer adds key signatures to unpitched percussion staves
- Vertical note alignment and slurs for whole-note chords now follow the same rules as stemmed notes
- Ties copy-paste correctly (bug introduced in 0.9.4)
- Accidentals after a tied note now follow standard notation rules
- More control over the layout of notes and articulations in the → dialog
- Dotted notes allowed in tuplets
- Shifting notes by an octave retains pitch spelling (sharps or flats)
- On small staves key signatures, time signatures, accidentals and dynamics are also small and rests are positioned correctly
- The measure property dialog now has options for "layout stretch" and "measure number offset"
- The bar line for grand staff instruments goes through both staves by default
- Arpeggios can span two staves
- Multi-measure rests automatically break at voltas, key changes, and time changes
- The default size of the staff and notes can be changed via the scaling option in the preferences
- Two new clefs: bass clef 8va and bass clef 15va
- Visibility of note stems and staff lines is now saved
- Note head position (left/right of stem) can now be overridden by user. This supports notation of "Griffschrift" for Steirische Harmonika
Text
- A special toolbar for text editing makes it easier to change the formatting of specific text
- Improved layout for formatting options in the Edit Text Style dialog
- Separate style options for odd and even lyrics. For example you can alternate between normal and italic type for each stanza
- Lyric hyphens better match the lyric text
- Lyrics, measure numbers, and other relevant text resizes with the staff when you change the scaling (via → )
- Changes to the text style (via → ) are visible without closing and reopening score
- Dynamics (such as mf or pp) now resize properly using → → Dynamics
- Flats and sharps in chord names now resize properly using → → Chordnames
- Chord names are configurable via an external XML file: styles\chords.xml
- Experimental jazz font for chord names (the font is incomplete and several symbols are missing)
Plugins
- Plugins enabled for Debian and Ubuntu due to new features in Qt 4.5
- Plugins can now include dialogs created with Qt Designer
- Eight sample plugins added
- Most script actions are now undoable
- Script debugger option added to the Help menu
- Added
-p option on command line to launch a plugin
Internationalization
- Eight new translations for the software: Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Ukrainian. This brings the total to 18 languages and dialects
- More text in MuseScore is now translatable (certain sections of the user interface were English only in previous versions)
- Italian and Norwegian versions of the handbook. The handbook is now available in nine languages
Credit
Programming
- Werner Schweer: Project lead, main developer
- Nicolas Froment (lasconic): Windows and Mac OS builds, MusicXML import-export developer
- Toby Smithe: Debian and Ubuntu builds
- Olav Gundersen: LilyPond export developer
- Leon Vinken: MusicXML import-export developer
- Raffaele Russi: MusicXML import-export developer
- Joachim Ganseman: Mac OS build
Localization
- Arabic
- Chinese, Traditional
- Chinese, Traditional (Taiwan)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English, US
- Finnish
- French
- Jean-Louis Waltener
- Nicolas Froment (lasconic)
- Galician
- German
- Hindi
- Italian
- Angelo Contardi
- Antonio Marchionne
- Norwegian
- Dag Henning Sørbø
- Per Holje
- Portuguese
- José Luciano Batista Gomes
- Portuguese, Brazilian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Carlos Sanchiavedraz
- Macedonious
- Marcos Guglielmetti
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Other
- Thomas Bonte: Website
- Magnus Johansson: Instrument list
- David Bolton: Documentation, instrument lists, Windows SoundFont