Release notes for MuseScore 2.0.1

MuseScore 2.0.1 was released May 5, 2015.

Features

• Allow voltas on all staves
• #14910: Piano Keyboard doesn't show notes during playback
• New "Getting Started" tutorial score
• #56786: Allow the bends input in a standard staff
• #54761: Easier way to search an item in shorcut list
• Add palette context menu to enable single palette mode
• Play chords out of note input mode

UI

• Display "Report a bug" and "Copy" button in About box
• Fix "copy revision" button in About box on Retina display
• Move Add button in time signature dialog in the same corner than in the key signature dialog

Templates and instruments

• Add Chamber Music templates
• Custom template files are now in the second category
• Add Violins, Violas, Violoncellos and Contrabasses
• Add Ukulele and Ukulele Tablature to the list of common instruments
• Better abbreviations for Euphonium, Tuba, and Double Bass

Debug

• Add command line option -w to disable the webview in startcenter
• Add command line option to create template
• Add originalFormat as metatag when importing a file

Misc. bug fixes

• Fix #58706: Regression in MuseScore 2—Em dash (—) not supported
• Fix #58646: Pinch to zoom (on touch screen) results in net zero zoom
• Fix #54691: SHIFT-<NOTE> adds note to same octave when key signature contains flats
• Fix #7886: [trunk] Section break and courtesy clef
• Fix #58496: Section break doesn't reset courtesy time sig
• Fix #58481: A time signature change with an attached image to the staff may cause problems
• Fix #58231: Crash changing text style on empty lyric
• Fix #57646: Segment-attached element in Voice 2 causes corruption in Voice 1 on copy and paste
• Fix #57756: Crash when deleting time signature when vertical frame is present
• Fix #57556: Arrow key / transpose (and others) commands don't obey selection filter
• Fix #57496: Section Break pause properties don't stick if set to 0.00sec
• Fix #57861: [XML and CAPX Import] An & in the partname or in a staff text of MusicXML or CAPX file results in unloadable MuseScore file
• Fix #57431: Courtesy time signature not created when changing time signature
• Fix #57436: Undo from common to cut time time sig displays 2/2
• Fix #57226: Crash pasting chords symbols from different staves
• Fix #56951: Starting playback with repeats in a certain order causes a crash
• Fix #55411: Cross-staff tuplet number collision avoidance is incorrect
• Fix #56876: Load Album dialog sometimes shows scores, not albums - and vice versa
• Fix #56536: "Break every X measures" tool does not operate on the last measure in selection
• Fix #23473: Notes and rests shorter than 128th do not display or copy properly
• Fix #53481: FreeSerif font included with MuseScore is missing italic
• Fix #53341: Undo doesn't works after appending a frame
• Fix #51761: Slurs & lines disappear or move in the non-rewritten measures on add of time signature
• Fix #55446: Split staff in parts with slur causes a crash
• Fix #53266: Corruption pasting into a sequence that ends in the middle of a tuplet
• Fix #56191: Crash playing score with ties and tremolo
• Fix #53161: Notes created by extending chord over barline are not tied to the correct notes
• Fix #53461: Respell Pitches command changes only concert pitch spelling, regardless of current state
• Fix #54346: Clef in part is offseted when system text is present in pickup
• Fix #52506: Split Staff on particular slur crashes MuseScore
• Fix #54556: Multimeasure clef position bug
• Fix #54766: Not able to move fret to maximum when using Up arrow key
• Fix #54506: Infinite program loop while playback with looping tie of death
• Fix #51886: Enharmonic change made using "J" on concert pitch instrument not saved
• Fix #54196: Regression after 2.0 - Score with pickup measure are corrupted when reopen
• Fix #51881: Measure number mode not preserved on save/reload
• Fix #53196: Chord Symbols on Multi-Measure Rest NOT Transposed to/from Concert Pitch
• Fix #52936: 8va with Bravura or Gonville not read correctly
• Fix #52386: symbols added to "Repeat measure sign" measure will disapear on reload (win & linux 2.0)
• Fix #53751: Shorten stem are not read correctly
• Fix #53931: Customised slide position is not read correctly.
• Fix #52926: Tremolo position
• Fix #54216: Crash when creating new score using empty custom template
• Fix #53506: MuseJazz font line spacing too wide
• Fix #53761: cross-staff beam too short
• Fix #52841: No sound feedback in repitch mode when using MIDI or Piano Keyboard
• Fix #42356: Pedal playback remains on if pedal line ends at closing repeat bar
• Fix #53631: "Export Parts" generates a "Score_and_Parts" in a continous view.
• Fix #53696: Export as audio gets stuck at 99% with some file and some soundfont.
• Fix #53406: Technique text style should be spatium dependent
• Fix #51876: Crash navigating into multimeasure rest using Measure Properties
• Fix #51201: Voltas don't respond to CTRL-R
• Fix #52131: REGRESSION: Preferences | Shortcuts: Detection of conflicts ignores shortcut states
• Fix #51721: Staff miscentered vertically when set to 1 line musescore 2.0
• Add controller read in PortMidi driver

Plugins

• Make setVisible undoable
• Fix crash in Score::appendPart()
• Expose Excerpt to plugin framework
• Allow for flag created to be unset for imported scores
• Add access to MIDI channel information
• Added modifiedTime() to FileIO
• Fix #56221: Can't close a score from within a plugin
• Fix #56216: Can't save a score from within a plugin
• Expose Rest::isFullMeasureRest() to plugins
• Expose Spanner::startElement() and ::endElement
• Let a plugin know about its own path

MuseScore 1.3 compatibility

• Fix #58571: Rehearsal marks in scores created in previous versions of MuseScore not treated as such
• Fix possible infinite recursion for old scores containing tie to same note
• Fix #56146: Bad layout on load of 1.3 score with incorrect tick tag on symbol

MIDI import

• Fix wrong track order of MIDI channels
• Fix #57651: Crash on paste of tuplet in imported MIDI file
• Fix #56651: Crash when importing/previewing MIDI files with high division value
• Fix #53121: Midi import chooses accidentals poorly (for this file)
• Fix #44226: Initial key signature not transposed via dialog on imported MIDI file

Other imports

• Overture: Several improvements : Tempo text, poet, copyright, visibility
• Overture: Fix crash on grace notes
• Capella: Fix #52616: [Capella import] MuseScore stops reading Capella files at <barline>...<\barline>

MusicXML

• Fix #58596: [MusicXML import] incorrect layout slur to grace note
• Fix #55501: [MusicXML import] crash if midi-instrument is missing from drum set part
• Fix #18620: [MusicXML] Small notes not exported
• Fix #55436: Crash when trying to edit a percussion part from a MusicXML file
• Fix #53346: [MusicXML import] incorrectly cannot handle the time elements "symbol=normal" attribute
• Fix #53936: Incomplete MusicXML text attributes for 7sus4 chords

Translations

• Make some more text translatable
• Update translations

Playback

• Fix several repeat bugs with DS, voltas etc... #52511: Musescore 2.0 resolves DC al coda before repeat bars., #23773: After the coda, a repeat mark was a neglected playing.
• Add support for 24-bit SoundFont
• Fix #56151: Switched instrument not muting on solo
• Fix #55416: Cannot load a personal configuration in the synthesizer
• Fix #21592: Exported audio doesn't play loaded soundfont
• Fix #34286: zerberus exports silence
• Fix #52101: Mordent/prall playback ignores key signature

• Fix #53261: Crash when playing with lead-in in a score with repeats

• Update FluidR3 SoundFont to last version

  • Add Mellow Yamaha Grand at Bank #8 Patch #0
  • Fix Alto Sax range issue
  • Fix Recorder range issue
  • Tweak tuning for Violin preset

MuseScore.com

• Change wording of error messages
• Check for corruption before upload