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Try out the new features and improvements introduced in the new version of MuseScore 3.4!

Download MuseScore 3.4 Beta Release

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Single click interactions

We all know that MuseScore is powerful notation software that can do almost everything in terms of music notation. We conducted a dozen of user testing activities with the ones who never used MuseScore and found that "double click" is an interaction pattern that is

MuseScore is going to rock FOSDEM 2020!

FOSDEM is the largest conference dedicated to OpenSource in Europe (in the world?) held February 1 and 2 in Brussels. MuseScore editor team will be there (2 devs, me and Martin Keary)!

We have a table to present MuseScore to FOSDEM visitors on Saturday, February 1st.

We welcome everyone to discuss the hottest topics and design/development plans together. Four years in a row, we will organise a traditional Saturday dinner to gather everyone

Today we are pleased to announce a patch update, Musescore 3.3.4. It addresses a dozen of issues, crashes and the regressions related to how Windows 7 works with new palettes.

Read more about new features and improvements in a big announcement of Musescore 3.3 release

Download Musescore 3.3.4 Release

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Release notes

Fixes

• Palette names were scrambled and nearly impossible to read (Windows 7)
• Scale of palette was incorrect

Today we are pleased to announce a patch update, Musescore 3.3.3. It addresses a lot of requests dedicated to the Palettes and Note Input Workflow as well as fixes dozens of bugs.

Read more about new features and improvements in a big announcement of Musescore 3.3 release

Download Musescore 3.3.3 Release

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Release notes

Improvements

• Tie button behaves as a toggle now
• Enable changing notes duration if selecting note

Today we are pleased to announce a patch update, MuseScore 3.3.2. It addresses all known issues we and our users have found in the previous release. Read more about new features and improvements in a big announcement of MuseScore 3.3 release

Download MuseScore 3.3.2 Release

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Release notes

Fixes

• MuseScore crashed on startup in some cases on Windows 7
• "Save online" failed in some cases
• Palettes were incorrectly placed

Today we are pleased to announce a significant update, MuseScore 3.3. In addition to dozens of bug fixes and new features, it introduces substantial usability improvements for palettes, note input workflow and accessibility.

Download MuseScore 3.3 Release

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Palettes redesign

Palettes panel is one of the most commonly used UI elements in the editor. By the way, there are many reports from users who don't understand how to customize

We are pleased to announce MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate 3.

We have already implemented essential improvements related to the appearance, usability, and customization possibilities of the palettes. We are focusing on new users to let them understand MuseScore's facilities faster and easier, yet keep the workflow for experienced users the same or significantly simplify it.

One more thing we want to see in the upcoming MuseScore 3.3 release is the Tantacrul's Note Input workflow redesign implementation. @mattmcclinch generously helped the

We are pleased to announce MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate 2.

We decided to exclude all the changes we made in Save Online workflow from this release and add few more improvements to how the workspaces and palettes work together.

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Improvements

• Current workspace is automatically saved on each action that changes the workspace
• Basic and Advanced workspaces are automatically marked as "edited" if you customise palettes or toolbars
• Palettes

No more words!

Just download MuseScore 3.3 Release Candidate and feel the power of the new palettes

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Feedback

"The palettes have now reached a point where it's painful to have to go back to 3.2.3 😊" - Happy User
"This is just the coolest thing ever. No need to bother [palettes] searching ever again." - Another Happy User

Hi everyone,

We are looking for the ones who wants to help MuseScore to improve usability by implementing Tantacrul's redesign of the Note Input flow. Once it is implemented, there will be no need to enter "Note input mode" each time you want to enter notes :)

Introduction

As you probably know, not so long ago, Martin Keary aka Tantacrul published a video about MuseScore. The video is full of constructive criticism and, what is the most important, the