Ever wondered how to playback your MuseScore score on your keyboard? Now you can with Jack and the latest MuseScore 0.9.6 prerelease for Windows. In this post, you will find the instructions how to configure Jack and MuseScore. I believe MuseScore is one of the first applications to support Jack on Windows so be aware this is still experimental.

Requirements

• MuseScore 0.9.6 prerelease: Backup your data before installing a prerelease!
• Jack 1.9.3 for Windows
• A MIDI keyboard correctly set up

Configuration

Download and install the latest MuseScore 0.9.6 prerelease

Download Jack at http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jack-1.9.3.tgz
You can use 7zip (http://7zip.org) to open tgz files on windows.
Install with the binaries in jack-1.9.3\jack-1.9.3\bin\windows
run "Jack Control"
Choose "Setup..."

• server path :jackd -S -R -X winmme
• Driver : portaudio

Start jack server by clicking Start in "Jack Control"

Run MuseScore
In Edit -> Preferences ->I/O.

• Uncheck Portaudio and Use Internal Synthesizer
• Check Use Jack Midi output

Restart MuseScore

In Jack Control, click on "Connect"
In the "Connections" windows, click on the MIDI tab.
On the left side you should see Mscore1, this is MuseScore outputs.
On the right side you should see, your MIDI keyboard input, it's one of the playback.

Click Mscore1 and mscore-midi-1 on the right, and right click system_midi -> playback to link musescore with your keyboard



Now you can click on play in MuseScore or in Jack Control and you hear your piano playing