MuseScore Studio 4.5.1 patch now available
Hi everyone,
We're pleased to bring you a small update to MuseScore Studio: version 4.5.1.
This update brings stability improvements and bug fixes, as well as some minor feature improvements.
Engraving
- Space between a dynamic and an expression (e.g. within "p dolce") now scales correctly with staff size
- Increased distance between a partial slur and partial tie on the same note
- Partial ties now extend past breath marks and notes or rests in other voices
- Fixed corruption in parts when a time signature is inserted between tied notes
- Making higher instruments visible in a part no longer duplicates jump markers (e.g. "to Coda", etc.)
- Fixed centering of dynamics between staves when horizontal space is limited
- Fixed horizontal spacing after hiding an instrument
- Fixed layout of courtesy time signatures for which autoplace is disabled
- Increased gap before barline for hairpins created by dragging from a dynamic
- "Show text" property of glissandos is now properly preserved on saving and loading
- When a large time signature is hidden, its parentheses are now also hidden (affects MuseScore.com and continuous view)
- High Floor Tom and Low Floor Tom have exchanged position on the General MIDI Percussion staff
Interaction
- Selection filter setting is now properly accounted for during a range selection
- Entering a pitch in 'input by duration' mode now turns off 'toggle rest'
- Partial ties can be copied and pasted
- Creating a hairpin by dragging from a dynamic can now be undone in one step instead of two
- Hairpins can now be removed via the dynamics popup by pressing the same hairpin button again
- MIDI notes can be staggered when entering chords in input by duration mode
- If you've opted to use the legacy percussion panel, it now appears when note input is activated
- More special characters can be typed with AltGr and Ctrl+Alt on Windows
Stability
- Fixed crash after note input on deleted staff
- Fixed crash when Shift+clicking on a page number
- Fixed crash when editing partial ties
- Fixed crash after copying a tie in the score and selecting it in the parts
- Fixed crash when adding a time signature to a score with voltas and system markings
- Fixed crash when a lyrics hyphen is entered before a repeat barline
- Fixed crash when opening the layout panel
- More reliable fix for crash when pasting into a tuplet
- Fixed an issue where a black screen occurs on startup on macOS
Other
- Fixed playback after undoing an edit to a chord symbol
- Slur and hairpin properties are properly exposed to the plugin API
- File format icon images are now square (i.e. same width and height) on Linux
For more details, see our 4.5.1 project on GitHub.
What's next?
You can install this update via MuseHub today, or via MuseScore Studio's built-in update notification in a few day's time.
And if you haven't yet seen the 4.5 release video, check it out here on our YouTube channel.
Comments
@shoogle
When I click "Free Download" or "MuseScore Studio 4.5.1 | macOS" at the 4.5.1 link, the site downloads MuseHub.
Speaking of MuseHub, presently that branch of the organization is proving unhelpful and/or non responsive. So I'm wondering if anyone here can help.
I won purchased MuseSounds libraries that no longer show in the Mixer's sound menus. Until I find a solution I have MuseScore Studio scores that serve no purpose.
To learn more about this, after opening the following link, look for "The (in)stability of installed sound libraries" (Note: I've included system configuration in the link):
https://musescore.org/en/node/372335#comment-1283873
Here's a GitHub link that summarizes a situation regarding Guitars Vol 2 sound quality (system configuration included in the link):
https://github.com/orgs/musescore/discussions/25963#discussioncomment-1…
... and within the prior thread there's a post regarding purchased MuseSounds not showing in the Mixer:
https://github.com/orgs/musescore/discussions/25963#discussioncomment-1…
Could the problem be an installer issue?
Thanks for all your work and input!
scorster
That's cool and all, but can you guys fix the playback issues with partial ties? They broke in 4.5, the update where partial ties were introduced. Partial ties were a main selling point of 4.5, so I'd hope they get fixed ASAP. Otherwise, update is great.
Percussion workspace/panel in 4.5.0 is so big and it appears to gain too much on score workspace. The older version 4.4.3 layout was much easier to use and easy to customize kit. Customizing the percussion in Version 4.5.0 does not work and provides no sound. For example, for a snare, if we edit a note-head with a new one that we want, it provide no sound at all.
Quando exporto para midi, não abedece 1ª e 2ª casa.
There still are many issues:
1. When working with old musescore sounds like voice and piano, if you play the voices only, a delayed piano sound will be playing along the voices even if it's nothing written in the piano part. This can be fixed if you choose the muse sounds, but this shouldn't be the solution...
Same problem with the metronome...playing a second instrument delayed at the same time of the metronome click which is annoying. I found by choosing the metronome from musesounds this is fixed but the clicks are not very distinguishable with that metronome version. Again, you should fix this problem
At some points, if you are changing, alternating windows between musescore and other program and try midi input note, there are times where if you play, it adds many notes in the same voice in one beat, it get stuck until you hit your keyboard many times to force the program to move to next beats. This is very annoying.
Same with lyrics, if you are copying and pasting your lyrics one by one, if you do it fast, there's a point where even if you hit paste, it doesn't paste the rest of your lyrics and stop you to move forward unless you copy your text again and paste it one by one from the last part it stopped.
If you decide to disable "auto-place" for tempo marks like ritardando or a tempo, it doesn't still let you drag them whenever you want. I didn't want to show it above my vocal parts cause it was a piano part, I wanted to drag it there and it doesn't let me and ruin the layout and engraving of my score... because it seems it's automatically set as above by default when you have other instruments, that's annoying!
Last and worst: When you quit the entering notes Mode, if you are using a MIDI and you want to play before entering the notes, it plays the last instrument you selected, which is annoying. How is it possible an instrument is sounding if nothing is selected but you are just using your MIDI keyboard. This is so frustrating.
This update has been a real disappointment