MuseScore Studio 4.4 is now available!

• aug 27, 2024 - 00:58

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.

Watch the release video

How to get MuseScore Studio 4.4 and Muse Drumline

I’m new to MuseScore Studio

Head over to the Download page to see the available options.

  • Windows & macOS
    • The main download option gives you the Muse Hub utility, which you can use to install MuseScore Studio and Muse Sounds, including Muse Drumline.
    • There's also the option to download MuseScore Studio without Muse Hub if you prefer, but you'll need Muse Hub if you want to use Muse Sounds.
  • Linux
    • The main download option will just give you MuseScore Studio. You’ll also need to download and install Muse Sounds Manager if you want to use Muse Sounds.
    • Please note that Muse Drumline is not yet available for Linux but we're working to address this as quickly as possible.

You can find additional builds on our GitHub Releases page, including a portable Windows EXE, as well as AppImages for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM Linux. (Muse Sounds Manager is not currently available for ARM Linux.)

I already have MuseScore Studio (version 4 onwards)

You’ll see a message about the 4.4 update next time you launch the app. If you don’t see the message, go to Help > Check for update, or download the app manually instead.

To get the latest Muse Sounds, you’ll need to install the recently refreshed Muse Hub on Windows or macOS, or Muse Sounds Manager on Linux. You can download these from musehub.com. If you already have an old version of Muse Hub installed, it's best to uninstall it first before you install the new version. Please note that Muse Drumline is not yet available for Linux but we're working to address this as quickly as possible.

New features in 4.4

Percussion

  • New percussion collections: Muse Drumline, plus a Muse Sounds version of Tapspace's VDL (comprising two separate collections: Virtual Drumline and Virtual Percussion), available in the new Muse Hub
  • Optional migration for scores created with the MuseScore 3 Drumline extension
  • Sticking is now centered on the notehead and aligned to a common baseline across the system
  • Sticking is able to trigger different samples for more nuanced playback (Muse Sounds only)

Guitar

  • New style options for fretboard diagrams, including ability to add fingerings
  • Improved alignment and interactions for ghost/dead notes in tablature staves

Dynamics

  • More flexible anchor positioning; now you can have a crescendo start and end part way through a note!
  • Proper centering between staves for grand staff instruments
  • Snapping to other dynamics while dragging and resizing
  • New style options to control default positioning
  • Assignment to specific staves & voices for playback (depends on sound technology used) and engraving
  • Expressive playback; not just volume modulation (depends on sound technology used)

Accidentals

  • Layout system completely rewritten
  • SMuFL cut-outs used for elegant and compact layout in chords
  • New style options for further customization

Beams

  • French-style!
  • Better vertical spacing for cross-staff beams
  • Option to set cross-staff beams above, below, or between the grand staff

Text

  • Multi-line copyright text
  • New options for showing/hiding instrument labels
  • Increased use of SMuFL symbols within text for pedal markings, ottavas, codas/segno markings, and tuplet numbers

Explode & implode

  • Dynamics and text annotations are copied with voice assignment
  • Grace notes are are copied when exploding measures

Other engraving

  • Frames are now scalable with staff size
  • New option for separating layout of similarly-stemmed voices
  • Thickness of slurs and ties can now be set independently
  • Grace note slashes can now be toggled on or off in Properties
  • Many other improvements, including MusicXML improvements (see detailed summary)

Mixer

  • Hidden instruments can now be muted/soloed

Performance

  • Reduced note-input latency when using a MIDI keyboard
  • Lower minimum buffer sizes (128 samples on macOS; 512 on Windows)
  • Faster audio exports

Qt 6

  • Better scrolling & support for touch gestures
  • Native support for Apple Silicon

Wayland display protocol (Linux)

  • Resolved issue with bundled Wayland libraries in the AppImage
  • Resolved positioning issue with popups, menus and tooltips
  • Run with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to force Wayland to be used

And more!

See the release notes and completed tasks in the 4.4 project for the full list of changes.

Comments

• aug 27, 2024 - 17:24

What is the timeline for Muse Drumline for Linux? Also thank you to all the developers that have worked on making MuseScore become one of the best notation softwares currently available.

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• aug 27, 2024 - 19:54

I suspect it's unintended that, on MacOS, the file name for the MuseScore Studio 4.4 app is:

     MuseScore 4 2.app

Looking forward to seeing 4.4's improvements and trying the new features!

scorster

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• aug 27, 2024 - 22:22

Currently unable to add a payment method to Muse Hub to purchase VDL.

"Failed to create setup intent! Error: Unexpected error."
API issues?

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• aug 28, 2024 - 06:46

I just want to ask for one thing, can you improve the experience for users in Chinese mainland? The use of musehub in Chinese mainland is very unsatisfactory.

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• aug 28, 2024 - 08:23

The new anchor positioning for dynamics & playback is a welcomed addition! also, I really note huge improvements in stability. Great work!

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• aug 29, 2024 - 03:57

I didn't receive an update notification when I open MuseScore 4.3 - when I click "check for updates" it tells me I'm up to date (on 4.3). I don't know if it's just my end, or maybe most users of MuseScore aren't getting notified of the update to 4.4?

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• aug 30, 2024 - 18:16

The announcement does not say or imply the automatic update facility has been enabled - on the contrary, it explains exactly how to get the new version. Delay implies a change from the original or usual schedule. Again, every single release of MuseScore ever has done the exact same thing - there is no delay whatsoever, since everything is exactly according to the usual schedule. So yes, it wouldn't have hurt to add a statement clarifying that this release works exactly like every other release and that, yes, the way to get the update is to follow the directions given and not try to improvise by following some other process. But it's moot now, though, as the autoupdate does now seem to be in effect.

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• aug 29, 2024 - 16:16

Will Virtual Percussion add the ability of Musescore to play buzz rolls? At present various percussive techniques cannot be produced by the application, and before spending money on fancy sounds I'd love to be able to produce the sound of basic skillsets.

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• aug 29, 2024 - 19:24

I have got a bug: my Musescore is now in Chinese! I am from Brazil, so my Musescore is in Brazilian Portuguese, but since 4.4 is released, Musescore is now in Chinese, and only some words are in Portuguese!

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• aug 29, 2024 - 19:36

I don’t think that is Chinese - I think it’s just a non-alphabetic font. Seeems whichever font you had configured might no longer exist on your system, or might be incompatible with the Qt 6 libraries MuseScore relies on. Try Help / Revert to
factory settings (last item in Help menu, which is second to last menu overall). or yoh could try to find Format / Style / Appearance and change the font directly.

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• aug 29, 2024 - 20:18

Under the expanded release notes, I saw this under the Playback enhancements: "Support for Muse Sounds choral libraries, including lyric text to trigger different phoneme samples."

I'm using the Muse Sounds Muse Choir but don't see any way to attach specific phonemes to my lyric text. Is there more documentation for how to do this somewhere or does this just mean that developers for Muse Sounds choral libraries could implement the ability to read lyric text to adjust phonemes?

Does any such choral library exist currently?

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• aug 29, 2024 - 21:03

Muse Choir only supports ah, oh, and mm, but the feature where this triggers from lyrics isn't working yet, should be in 4.4.1

I believe there are third party libraries that support additional sounds - Voxos? - but I don't think it's anything like full text-to-speech. Would be happy to be wrong about that though.

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• aug 30, 2024 - 02:02

I'm pretty sure this is broken as of this realease, but file (path) containing unicode characters are now unable to be opened by double clicking the file itself. Workaround is to drag and drop the file into an open instance of MuseScore app

It says "Cannot read file _______

This file does not exist or cannot be accessed at the moment"

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• aug 30, 2024 - 16:51

I posted to report the issue. You've been posting to just complain and $hit talk.

Do you want a refund or something? This is free product created and maintained by volunteer workers. You have absolutely zero right to complain about it.

Learn to appreciate their work and stop complaining. Better yet, go take your "business" somewhere else.

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• aug 30, 2024 - 06:36

请问musesocre4.4挂载康泰克音源后如何在musesocre4.4里面修改那个由康泰克挂载音源的音符的力度，我今天挂载康泰克的The Orchestra Complete 3管风琴音源，发现无论我是修改他单个声音力度还是给他挂载ppff之类的标记都无法修改他播放系统的力度

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• aug 30, 2024 - 09:46

Google Translate offers this translation from Chinese:
"How can I modify the note dynamics of the Contec sound source in musesocre 4.4? I installed the Contec The Orchestra Complete 3 organ sound source today and found that no matter I modify the single sound dynamics or add ppff or other tags to it, I cannot modify the dynamics of its playback system."

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• aug 30, 2024 - 10:01

It is quite unfortunate that after the update I can no longer open my files and it is in complete gibberish codes. Now I have to revert back to 4.3.2 and skip this version. Anyone having the same issue?

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• aug 30, 2024 - 21:40

Hmm, sounds like you are having some sort of trouble learning to use MuseScore, but it isn't clear what specifically you are struggling with. I recommend starting a new thread in the Support forum and describe your difficulty in more detail, then we can understand and assist better.

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• aug 31, 2024 - 01:49

It has been nice to see the new update but I find something I think it should be good to fix in a next update or at least, if someone knows how to fix it, I would thank you.

1) Panoramic view deletes the title, composer and other text elements when you use it, or may be it doesn't delete it at all, but is not showing them. It should be nice to keep the same elements in vertical and horizontal view!

2) It should be nice to add a feature to generate chord fretboards, especially for sharps/flat tones such like Bb, Eb, Db, Ab, major, minor, etc. That they are not by default in the palette. Cause it can really take a lot of time to create custom fretboards instead of picking standard options. This is a nightmare when transcribing to be honest, where saving time is a priority.

3) For some reason, custom templates delete pictures/logos and composer/title information every time you use it, it seems like a bug or something maybe I'm not doing good, maybe, but whenever I open one of my custom templates, they're not showing the logo picture, or some of the tiles I chose.

4) Playback has a small delay. If you use the New Muse sounds library, i.e. piano, you will notice when you hit the play button, it sounds like the first second of sound is missing, like if doesn't load at all. I don't know if this is a problem due a configuration or something.

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• aug 31, 2024 - 01:59

It's by design that continuous view doesn't display frames, because there would be no obvious place to put them since they appear between systems and there is only one system

It's also by design that templates preserve the structure of your score but not it's content.

A fuller palette of fret diagrams - and a possible way to generate them via transposition - is currently being looked at. Meanwhile, I encourage you to ask on the Support forum and you may find someone has already created a custom palette they would share.

The small delay with Muse Sounds is unfortunate but not new.

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• aug 31, 2024 - 16:15

As explained, most of what you describe is by design, meaning it’s supposed to work that way. If you have a special reason to wish different behavior, best to start a new thread in the support or feature request forums to discuss your ideas in more depth. If you do t get much response, there’s a good indication that others don’t yet see the value of your idea, and explaining it better could help. Or it could be that you simply need to learn to use the software as already designed. In any case, again, that’s a discussion to have elsewhere.

Also as explained the fretboard diagram enhancements are already being looked at.

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