News

MuseScore 0.5 released today!

• integrated small default piano sound font for better "first use experience"
• bracket editing with keyboard
• nested system brackets
• extended lyrics
• subscript and superscript for text
• irregular measures dialog
• more cut&paste and drag&drop operations
• better visual feedback for some drag&drop operations
• the sequencer now interprets ottava and pedal lines. They are also exported to midi.
• some line object can now span several systems (ottava, pedal, trill and hairpins)
• as usual many fixes, enhancements and internal code cleanups

After a long time we managed to get a new release out. Its another big step toward version 1.0. There are some new features and a lot of bug fixes and internal code cleanups. MuseScore now uses the cmake build system instead of "autotools" and the source code repository has changed from cvs to subversion.

To name a few features/enhancements:

• configurable keyboard short cuts
• Instrument names and text can contain musical symbols
• added ALSA audio driver in addition to JACK

Release 0.2 of MuseScore is a major feature release. Its based on the brand new Qt4 gui library using its features like antialiased screen drawings.

• new elements: volta brackets, ottava lines (8va---) system brackets, pedal lines, trill lines
• drag & drop from symbol panels
• navigator panel
• page layout preview
• tabbed multiple document interface
• Mscore now uses the unmodified project lilypond "emmentaler" font.

After a long time of hacking the final version 0.1 of MuseScore is released. Have a look at the new demo files to get an impression of the actual program status.

This prerelease fixes some bugs in MuseScore and the make process. A new feature is the integration of the fluid software synthesizer which allows for playing the score (think of it as a kind of acoustic proof reading).

The first prerelease of MuseScore 0.1 is released. This version features a big code rework and some new features as MusicXml import/export and MIDI import and live input. The internal structures are enhanced to support more than one voice on a staff. (See new testfile "promenade.msc").

New feature in this release are instrument names. You also get more editing functions for "in place" editing of strings. As usual some bugs are fixed and score layout is enhanced. Setting the page size for printing now works. Note that this release has some (stub) functions which are currently not working: sequencer integration to play score and import/export midi.

This release of MuseScore enables editing of crescendo/decrescendo symbols, simple lyrics and text objects like title, composer etc. Text properties can be edited by a new text style dialog. Printing now uses the native QT printing mechanism which has the ability to embed fonts in the postscript output so there is no need anymore to install the score fonts for printing.

• page layout: vertical space is now automatically inserted
  between systems to fill entire page
• staffs and systems can now be dragged vertically
• invisible flag for drawing objects; toggle function in context
  menu (click object with right mouse button (clef...))
• text can now be dragged
• notesheet and background color/wallpaper are now configurable
• page symbols: delete/undo/redo
• note stems now have the correct len
• function: delete clef + undo + redo
• some layout enhancements
• some bug fixes
• big changes to the code base

• new code for font handling; now works with newest
  qt-freetype-X11 which gives screen font anti aliasing
• some bug fixes
• some operability enhancements (note entry with mouse,
  more undo/redo etc.)