Muse Score 4 Learning Curve
I have mix feelings about Muse Score 4. On one hand I'm looking forward to improvements. Hopefully this will include better sounding fonts for classical guitars, twelve string guitars, and diatonic harmonicas. However, I am concern that the powers to be will get so fancy with the up grades that they'll make the learning curve so high that only computer geeks will be able to learn and employ the software.
Remember, morons like to create music too.
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If you have not already seen them:
https://www.hedsound.com/
https://musescore.org/en/node/303044
Tantacrul seems determined to make the interface for version 4 moron proof at all costs. There will be an official announcement on version 4 target dates before long but I'm guessing you should be able to test version 4 just to test it, not for real work, before the end of the year. The interface for version 4 isn't yet to a point where testing would be useful right now.
As for the soundfont questions I suggest that you pose that in the SundsFonts forum
In reply to Tantacrul seems determined… by mike320
Would it be possible to put me on a list of testers? I would appreciate the opportunity to help improve something I already love not just for myself, but for others as well..
In reply to Would it be possible to put… by Lafayette
Keep an eye on the forum, especially the Development and Technology Preview forum. When the time comes that testing is more beneficial there will be discussions about it. When the 4.0 Alpha release comes out there will be an official announcement and at that time the more testers there are the better 4.0 will be.
There is no official list of testers. Just test the releases and discuss what you find in the Development and Technology Preview forum until it's released.
In reply to Would it be possible to put… by Lafayette
The nightly builds for both the current version which will be 3.6 and the future version 4.0 are now being generated and nicely displayed at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/. My understanding is that the version 4 UI is now being used for those builds but you can still expect quite a few bugs.
My expectation is that if you put a group of newcomers in a room, gave half of them MuseScore 4 and half MuseScore 3, the MsueScore 4 would report it being slightly easier. But if you took experienced MuseScore 3 users and showed them MuseScore 4 for the first time, or took experienced MuseScore 4 users and showed them MuseScore 3 for the first time, but groups would report the version they are already used to is much simpler - and that would be for no other reason than that they are used to it.
In reply to My expectation is that if… by Marc Sabatella
You may have a point, however I still remember Microsoft messing things up when they had it right the first time. The exception was Windows 3.11 and that was horrible. Regardless, I'm still looking forward to Muse Score 4 and creating better music.