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Hi everyone!

MuseScore is taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year, and we have two really exciting projects to share with you!

Dynamics popup

This project will provide a quick way to enter dynamics and hairpins simply by clicking on an existing dynamic.

Contributor: Aniket (@re1san)

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Accessibility profiles

This project will made it easy to customize notation size, shapes, and colours to suit a wide range of visual and educational requirements.

Contributor: Animesh

We are delighted to announce the release of MuseScore Studio 4.3. This latest release in the MuseScore 4 series is the first to use the new MuseScore Studio branding that we announced earlier this year. This version contains numerous fixes and improvements, including a new sound flags feature that provides advanced control over score playback with Muse Sounds.

MuseScore Studio remains free and open source under GPL version 3.

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Hi everyone,

Today we're sharing an important update to the name of the MuseScore desktop notation app. Starting in 2024, it will be called MuseScore Studio.

We’re aware that any product rebrand — even a relatively subtle one like this — rarely receives unanimous approval, especially when an app has such a long history and dedicated community. But rest assured, we’re making this change for very necessary reasons.

Why does the name need to change?

Muse Group currently supports

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce that MuseScore 4.2.1 is now available.

Release builds can be found in Muse Hub or at https://musescore.org/en/download.

This release includes all the new features added in MuseScore 4.2, as well as fixes a number of crashes and improvements to the stability of the app.

For further details, please see the 4.2.1 project on our GitHub repository.

Best wishes,

The MuseScore Team.

We are delighted to announce the release of MuseScore 4.2, a milestone update for guitarists that includes an extensive new system for guitar bends, with beautiful engraving and highly realistic playback. 4.2 also brings other significant features for everyone, including valuable improvements for scores with multiple parts, and much more.

This update is accompanied by the release of another free instrument pack in the Muse Sounds collection: Muse Guitars, Vol. 1. This pack contains steel and nylon six-string

Hi everyone,

As promised, we have a beta build ready for MuseScore 4.2, which you can download from our release page over on GitHub: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta

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 4, but please be aware that the two versions will share preferences and workspaces. Also, if you save any score files with 4.2 then you will not be able

Hi everyone,

We’re about a month away from the release of MuseScore 4.2, which means that now is a great time to help test all the fantastic new features that will be included in this release:

Guitar

• Support for alternate string tunings
• All-new system for inputting bends and customising their playback
  • Bend playback currently requires SoundFont or VST. We’ll update this post when support for bends is added in Muse Sounds.

Parts

• Better synchronisation between the score and the parts

Hi everyone!

Let’s check out some of the fantastic contributions we’ve had from the community, and see what tasks are available on the community project's board.

Recent contributions

We have been incredibly fortunate to receive pull requests for MEI and Jianpu, two features that have been discussed for many years but never actually implemented until now, as well as the welcome return of JACK audio support on Linux.

MEI import and export

Like MusicXML, Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is

We’re delighted to announce that MuseScore 4 has won the Public Choice Award, an outstanding accolade in the UX Design Awards 2023.

The UX Design Awards were established by the IDZ (International Design Centre) Berlin, to celebrate global product design and innovation. In order to be nominated for this year’s award, MuseScore 4 had to undergo a rigorous selection process by an expert jury. This was followed by a public ballot in which over 24,000 votes were cast

Hi everyone!

Here's a quick update about some of the things we are working on as we prepare for the release of MuseScore 4.2 later this year

Alternate string tunings for guitar

We’re working on a new ‘string tuning’ element, which will be accessible via the Guitar palette. This will provide an easy way to specify new tunings for multiple strings and (optionally) have those tunings displayed in the score. You’ll be able to choose from a list of preset