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Hi everyone,

The MuseScore 4 Handbook is the central resource for MuseScore Studio, providing essential guidance to newcomers as well as experienced users looking to make the most of the application.

While the current documentation system has served us well for many years, it's beginning to show its age, and its limitations are becoming increasingly clear. We believe it's high time for an upgrade!

That's why we're excited to announce:

1. The MuseScore 4 Handbook is moving to GitBook.
2. Translation

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.4.3 is now available.

This update addresses multiple crashes and resolves various issues related to interaction, playback, and engraving. Additionally, it includes a critical fix for Windows users, resolving several graphical problems.

Windows Qt 6.2.9 update

In this release, we're switching to from Qt 6.2.4 to Qt 6.2.9 on Windows. This resolves a number of issues:

• Graphical issues of various natures, for example where the main window looked transparent (#24857

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.4.2 is now available. This update addresses stability issues, fixes a problem with MuseScore Studio's online functionality, improves playback quality especially on less powerful computers, and includes several other enhancements and fixes in various areas.

Online functionality & MuseScore.com

• Some users reported that MuseScore Studio 4.4 was unable to connect to the internet and that they could not log in to their MuseScore.com and Audio.com accounts. This has been resolved.
• This

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.4.1 is now available.

MuseScore Studio 4.4 featured some big updates to the underlying technologies, most notably the switch to Qt 6. Despite our thorough testing, this has inevitably caused some bugs on certain systems. This update addresses these problems, featuring more than 50 bug fixes and stability improvements in total.

Stability fixes

This update contains fixes for

• A Qt problem that caused some Windows users to see only an empty

We are delighted to announce the release of MuseScore Studio 4.4.

This version includes support for the long awaited Muse Drumline, a free sound library from Muse Sounds. It also contains a wealth of new engraving features, as well as numerous performance improvements and bug fixes, making it the biggest update to the app since version 4.0.

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How to get MuseScore Studio 4.4 and Muse Drumline

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Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce a release candidate is available for MuseScore Studio 4.4. This builds on the Beta version we put out last week, and includes all the features and bugfixes we expect to see in the 4.4 release.

• Windows (MSI installer, portable)
• macOS (universal)
• Linux (x86_64, ARM32, ARM64)

If you have time over the next few days, we'd appreciate it if you could install the release candidate and

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that a beta release is available for the upcoming MuseScore Studio 4.4. You can download it for:

• Windows (MSI installer, portable)
• macOS (universal)
• Linux (x86_64, ARM64)

Once the beta is installed, it will show up on your machine as “MuseScore 4 Testing”. You can install it alongside your current version of MuseScore Studio, but you should be aware that the two versions will share preferences and

Hi everyone,

Let's take a quick peek at what's coming in version 4.4 of MuseScore Studio.

Percussion

As we hinted at the time of the last release, the next version of MuseScore Studio will finally deliver some good news for percussionists! However, delivering a world-class percussion system for MuseScore Studio is a task of such enormity that we've decided to split our new percussion features across two releases.

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.4 will support a new

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.3.2 is now available.

Release builds can be found at https://musescore.org/en/download.

This update fixes crashes and improves the stability and performance of the application.

For more information see completed tasks in the 4.3.2 project.

The MuseScore Team

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore Studio 4.3.1 is now available.

Release builds can be found at https://musescore.org/en/download or via Help > Check for update within the application.

This update fixes a critical usability issue affecting AZERTY keyboard users. The shift modifier key can now be used to trigger number keys, enabling note durations to be changed using the default shortcuts. 

This release also improves CPU performance when using Muse Sounds, and resolves a number of playback bugs