A few Mac issues
Hello:
I am new to Musescore. I love the notation aspect of the program. However, there appears to be some bugs, at least on the Mac.
Used computer: Mac Pro with fast processor, lots of ram and powerful graphic card.
First issue is your website which does not play nice with the Mac Safari. It does, however, work fine with Firefox.
Program itself:
I am using a Mac 5K display. Initially everything on screen was too small to be useable. I found a way to adjust the size of the palettes but not the top menu (where the note values are). Is there a way to do that? Please see screen shot.
Despite my fast CPU and lots of memory, moving the score in the main window results in a jerky movement. Using the small images of the pages at the bottom works just fine.
While waiting for version 4 (with VST), is there a way on the Mac to send a live stream to a DAW. I see instructions for doing this on a PC with a program called loopback which does not exist on the Mac. Do you know of a loopback-type program for the Mac?
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Comments
Normally macOS does a good job of communication screen resolution to MuseScore in ways we expect - problems such as you see here are more common on Windows and Linux. But the same solution exists on any platform - when you have a non-standard monitor configuration that doesn't communicate the resolution in the expected way, you need to add the "-D xxx" option (where "xxx" is the true effective resolution of your monitor in DPI) to the command line used to start MuseScore. I assume macOS has a way of specifying that in a property on the program icon or something like that, but I'm not very Mac-literate. Actually, there might be an option somewhere to control how the high-DPI scaling is performed by the OS on a per-application basis. I know Windows provides this. Something to do a web search on, if you have trouble with the "-D" solution.
Jerky movement would seem to suggest an incompatibility of some sort between the Qt libraries we use to control display and your particular display driver. The fact that the resolution is reported incorrectly as well suggests your display driver may have issues in general - see if an update is available.
The software MuseScore supports internally for sending output to a DAW is JACK, which as far as I know runs on macOS. I'm not familiar with loopback but it's not something MuseScore supports directly.
In reply to Normally macOS does a good… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you.