Nowe funkcje w MuseScore 0.9.6
Najważniejsze nowości
- Gotowy do zapisywania partytur orkiestrowych. Pauzy wielotaktowe są automatycznie przełamywane w odpowiednich miejscach (zmiany tonacji i metrum, podwójne kreski taktowe), transpozycja odpowiada tonacji. Przykładowo Eis nie zmienia się już w Fes po włączeniu/wyłączeniu opcji "Bez transpozycji", dynamika oddziałuje bądź na wszystkie pięciolinie, bądź na pojedyncze instrumenty lub pięciolinie (nie działa na wszystkich SoundFontach), teksty repetycji i teksty systemowe są teraz poprawnie ujmowane w wyciągach wszystkich głosów, przygotowane są gotowe do użycia szablony partytur orkiestrowych (orkiestra i orkiestra dęta).
- Odtwarzanie przy pomocy 128 instrumentów i 8 zestawów perkusyjnych we wbudowanym SoundFoncie (TimGM6mb.sf2). Poprzednie wersje dla Windows i Mac OS używały dźwięku fortepianu dla wszystkich instrumentów i wymagały, aby użytkownik samemu ustawił własny SoundFont, w przypadku, gdy chciał słyszeć inne instrumenty.
- Obsługa zagnieżdżonych grup niemiarowych i lepsze wsparcie dla grup niemiarowych w ogóle.
- Wsparcie dla oznaczeń tonacji tworzonych przez użytkownika.
- Znaczące ulepszenia w MusicXML, umożliwiające lepszą wymianę plików z innymi edytorami nutowymi.
- Import plików Overture i ABC oraz znaczące ulepszenie eksportu do LilyPonda.
- Autozapisywanie przywraca Twoje partytury w przypadku awarii.
- Plus sto innych usprawnień... (patrz poniżej).
Ważne informacje dla użytkowników aktualizujących starsze wersje
- Pliki zapisane w wersji 0.9.6 nie są otwierane w sposób poprawny przez wersję 0.9.5 lub wcześniejsze. Wynika to z niezbędnych zmian w strukturze plików. Oczywiście wersja 0.9.6 może odczytywać stare pliki MuseScore.
- Aby usunąć takt, zaznacz takt w normalny sposób i wybierz → lub użyj skrótu klawiszowego Ctrl+Del (Mac: ⌘+Del lub ⌘+Fn+Backspace). We wcześniejszych wersjach należało zaznaczyć takt w specjalny sposób, przy pomocy przerywanej linii. Więcej szczegółów w sekcji "Usuwanie" w Podręczniku.
- Dla użytkowników lubiących często zmieniać SoundFonty ustawienia te dostępne są teraz w menu → i nie wymagają już restartowania programu. W poprzednich wersjach ustawienia SoundFontu znajdowały się w menu → → I/O tab. Więcej szczegółów w Podręczniku.
Playback
- Repeats play back more accurately for volta brackets, D.S. inside repeated section, and D.C. al Fine
- Master pitch tuning preference. You can set playback higher or lower than the standard A-440
- Remove pause button (equivalent functionality already in play button)
- All instrument sounds included thanks to Tim Brechbill's compact and open-source SoundFont: "TimGM6mb.sf2"
- New playback settings panel via → featuring reverb, chorus, master volume, and SoundFont changes without restart (previous versions required a restart of MuseScore to change SoundFonts)
- Swing, shuffle and regular eighth notes via →
- Playback via Jack MIDI enabling playback via MIDI keyboard (experimental feature, see MIDI out via JACK) or playback via VSTi
- Keyboard note input works even if you have multiple MIDI devices connected to the computer. Select your MIDI input from the drop-down menu in → → I/O tab
- Hear MIDI keyboard sounds in MuseScore even if you are not in note entry mode (useful if your MIDI keyboard does not have speakers and you want to play a passage before writing out the notes)
- Piano roll view during playback. Right click on a staff and select "Pianoroll Editor..."
- Change the velocity (loudness) of an individual note via right-click
- Notes play for full duration by default
- Dynamics can affect the specific staff, part, or the whole system. Right-click on a dynamic marking and choose "MIDI Properties..."
- Sustain pedal markings affect playback
- Upwards arpeggios affect playback
User interface
Save time
- Improvements to New Score wizard: find instruments quickly (shows only the most common instruments initially), less steps (you can click Finish early instead of wading through the whole new score wizard).
- Apply changes to multiple notes at once:
- via →
- Small notes for cues or cadenzas
- Any Note Properties
- New ways to select similar items via right-click and choose
- Copy and paste of notes now includes any slurs
- Copy and paste between transposing instruments preserves the sounding pitch rather than the displayed pitch
- Change an instruments for an existing staff in half the number of clicks of previous versions. Right-click on an empty part of the staff, choose Staff Properties..., click "Change Instrument" (currently has some bugs: missing flats, font style, clef)
- Duplicate a selection of notes using the handy R shortcut
- New keyboard shortcuts
- Switch between handles on slurs, lines, and brackets in edit mode Tab and Shift+Tab
- Add staff text Ctrl+T (Mac: ⌘+T)
- Add system text Ctrl+Shift+T (Mac: ⌘+Shift+T)
- Previous lyric syllable: Ctrl+Left (Mac: ⌘+Left)
- Next lyric syllable: Ctrl+Right (Mac: ⌘+Right)
- Up to previous stanza: Up
- Down to next stanza: Down
- Change double or repeat barline back to normal bar line: Click to select it then press Del
Ease of use
- Delete and remove measures using normal selection then choose → or use the shotcut Ctrl+Del (Mac: ⌘+Del). No need to deal with Ctrl+click, dotted line selections
- Text selection via mouse now possible in edit mode. Also Ctrl+A (Mac: ⌘+A) works in text edit mode
- Larger drag-and-drop area for time signatures and key signatures. In previous versions you needed to drag and drop into the small space between the left bar line and the first note.
- Out-of-range notes use darker shades of red and yellow and more readable. Voice 2-4 notes are also darker.
- Halve or double the duration of a note you just entered using q or w during note entry.
- Accidental buttons in the note entry toolbar work correctly (in previous versions the buttons stayed pressed down when you went to the next note)
- Add a slur or hairpin spanning multiple notes easily. Just select notes and press shortcut (S for slur, H for crescendo, Shift+Hfor decrescendo). No need to fiddle with anchor positions.
- The former Notes palette is now correctly labeled as Grace Notes palette
- Double dot and tie icons in the note entry toolbar are clearer and more recognizable
- Better error messages for SoundFont that fails to load
- Better wording for → → Page
- Automatically check for updates. Customize your settings via → → Updates tab
More control
- Out-of-range note colors can be disabled via → → Note Entry tab
- Edit the usable pitch range for an instrument: Right-click on empty part of staff and choose
- Remembers whether main window was maximized and restores previous setting
- When adjusting pitches, the Up arrow uses sharps and the Down arrow uses flats
- Split-screen options via → or →
- Navigator panel shows more pages (especially helpful for longer scores)
Notation
- Nested tuplets
- Tuplet brackets can be flipped to the opposite side by clicking to select and pressing X
- Tuplets calculate the correct note durations based on standard engraving rules
- Allow beaming between tuplet and non-tuplet notes
- Allow beaming across bar lines (please note: beams across systems don't work yet)
- Smaller beams for grace notes (to match their size)
- Full support for multi-measure rests. They now automatically break at rehearsal marks, tempo changes, time signatures, key signatures, double barlines, repeat barlines.
- Measure numbers: pickups in new scores no longer included in measure number counting, measure number offset fixed, correct number after a multi-measure rest
- New symbols including caesuras, dotted slurs, arrowed accidentals, alternate fermatas
- All accidentals can have parentheses: drag the parentheses from accidental palette onto the accidental in the score
- New vertical bracket in the arpeggio palette for indicating notes that are supposed to be played at the same time, more note head options
- "Winged" repeats
- Repeat bar lines can now span multiple instrument staff lines correctly. Previous versions showed dots for only the first staff
- Line breaks can be added to horizontal frames
- Clef changes can be horizontally re-positioned. Double click and use Left and Right arrows
- Better spacing for dotted notes to avoid collisions with the next note or rest
- Transposition with correct pitch spelling. Previous versions often spelled pitches incorrectly after a transposition. This was particularly evident for people switching between concert pitch and transposing scores. For example an E-sharp on a Bb trumpet staff would become an F natural in old versions of MuseScore after pressing the concert pitch button a couple times
- Courtesy key signatures
- Adding time signatures mid-score no longer overrides later time changes (#2927)
- Time signature stays at the beginning of the score if you delete the first measure
- Only show one accidental for two notes sharing the same note head
- Note heads can be changed via right-click
- Grace notes transpose along with normal notes
Text
- Change the style of all existing lyrics or other types of text using the "change all elements of the same type" checkbox in the text property dialog
- Text Properties available to Chord Names via right-click
- Natural sign appears in the F2 palette (previous versions had only sharp and flat)
- Narrower spacing and better kerning for the "f" in dynamic markings such as mf, ff, etc.
- Add more numbers to MuseJazz font
- Score no longer jumps up and down when leaving or entering text edit mode. The text toolbar is now at the bottom of the main window instead of the top
- Tempo text has better initial metronome settings for each tempo
Plugins
- Much improved plugin framework
- Plugins can now be contributed on musescore.org and are featured on the plugin page
- Import ABC music files via →
- Break measures at a specified interval via →
- Change via →
Files
- Auto save recovers your scores in case of a software crash or power outage
- Audio export: respects instrument settings from mixer
- MusicXML improvements: added support for staff line count, invisible notes and rests, unpitched percussion, tempo and metronome markings, arpeggio and glissando, breath mark, grace notes, two-note tremolos, quarter-tone accidentals, beams over rests and other beam customizations, string fingerings and pluck markings. import of instrument sounds. import vertical placement of dynamics, pedal markings and hairpins (crescendo/decresendo), ottava and volta, import fonts and vertical placement of words. export correct placement for staff text in multi-staff systems, fix problems with octava markings and rests, instrument transposition information, pedal symbols
- LilyPond export: Octava markings, staff text with special characters, tremolo, segno and coda, grace notes, whole-measure rests for multiple time signatures, repeats, metronome markings, fingerings and string-numbers, arpeggios and glissandos, pickup bars, fermatas on rests, staff text and dynamics on the same note, flat symbol in instrument names, triplets with chords, work on rehearsal marks and segno/coda symbols, experimental support for lyrics
- Capella import: crash fix, recognize whole-measure rests
- New support for import of Overture files (versions 3 and 4)
Internationalization
- All item names are now translatable except plugins (previously some palettes were English only)
- New languages: Polish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, Japanese, Thai
- New handbooks added: Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Simplified Chinese
Fixes to Mac-specific bugs
- Ctrl+click works as alternative for right-click on Mac
- Dynamic markings display correctly on Mac
- Flats and sharps in chord names display correctly on Mac
- Better shortcuts for Palette, Navigator, Play Panel, and Mixer. Previous versions used Function keys (F9 - F12) which are already used by Mac OS
Fixes to Windows-specific bugs
- Text no longer appears tiny if no printer is installed
Credits
Programming
- Werner Schweer: Project lead, main developer
- Nicolas Froment (lasconic): Windows and Mac OS builds, bug fixes
- Toby Smithe: Debian and Ubuntu builds
- Olav Gundersen: LilyPond export developer
- Leon Vinken: MusicXML import-export developer
- Van Ferry: Ove import
- Jason Essington: MIDI in improvements
- Aaron Epstein: Playback improvements
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Localization
- Arabic
- Chinese, Traditional
- Chinese, Traditional (Taiwan)
- Chinese, Simplified
- Danish
- Morten Poulsen
- Stig Wolff
- Dutch
- Jaap Plaisier
- Thomas Bonte
- English, US
- Finnish
- French
- Jean-Louis Waltener
- Nicolas Froment (lasconic)
- Galician
- Greek
- Ionian University, Department of Music (As. Prof. Pan. Vlangopoulos, As. Prof. Ioannis Toulis, Niki Stavrati, Petros Andriotis)
- German
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Angelo Contardi
- Antonio Marchionne
- Daniele Bravi
- Japanese
- Norwegian
- Dag Henning Sørbø
- Per Holje
- Polish
- Portuguese
- José Luciano Batista Gomes
- Portuguese, Brazilian
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Carlos Sanchiavedraz
- Juan Díaz Porras (alkayata)
- Macedonious
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Other
- David Bolton: Handbook
- Thomas Bonte: Website
- Maurizio M. Gavioli (Miwarre): Plugin documentation
- Katie Wardrobe: Video tutorials
- Tim Brechbill: SoundFont
- Raùl Posac: MuseScore logo
- Zachary Chione: Splash screen design