Glad you like it! By the way, don't anyone believe that 'free equals worse' or 'free equals amateur'. Our team is filled with some of the worlds most knowledgeable and experienced people in music notation tech, engraving, sound design, product design and development.

The choose instruments option was actually there in musescore 3, it was just kinda wasn't intuitive. I didn't feel like there was a whole lot of new things added (besides the sound), but it just made everything way nicer to use and easier to find

It's called engraving because after the layout is decided, it is copied backwards onto a metal plate and etched into the plate by hand to produce a master copy that could be inked and used to stamp the music onto paper.

Instead of writing out tempo markings with the text box, you use the tempo tab on the left where it has all of the tempo stuff.

Even with MuseScore3 I was really impressed with the program. I had used Sibelius in college because it was paid for by the university but afterwards it was too expensive to keep on my own. Especially for someone who isn’t a composer by trade, I just have fun trying to arrange some things for strings. Though this new update has me wanting to do more now 😁 I like how you write exercises for your students, somehow it didn’t occur to me to do that. I just look online until I find something that suits my needs seeing as there are way more skilled people than me in writing stuff like that haha.

If my ears didn't deceive me, that 10:48 sound is from the basic Musescore 3, and not the new MuseSounds; could be a problem with the template defaults :p Might want to check the mixer.

The first music editor I used for a long time was Encore, that until it's 4.7 version seemed to be the moa interesting software I met. After that I was introduced to Finale, but in a small time I felt that it didn't satisfy me, not because it was difficult to use, but due to its restrictions (the only advantage was it very good sound resolution). Some time further my new contact was with Sibelius, from which my friends told me it was a kind of more friendly Finale: indeed I liked it much more, but still found even some restrictions, although lesser than in Finale or even in Encore. Some years ago I found Musescore and Capella, thar are at the present time my favorite ones, although I prefer the first one of them in the majority of the cases, while the second one is used mostly for my collaborations to a German friend that always uses it. My preference for Musescore is mostly because it has among many features the possibility of editing many old time signatures and a better looking appearance and graphic result extensive to the printing.

Text/Lyrics: If you want to write text it should be cmd + L it will then allow you to write lyrics under the notes. - will jump to he next note and combind the texts with a "-" for syllables or aaaaah ot ooooohs all that stuff. If you press space it will jump to the next note without a connection. Tempo Markings: The tempo markings as text can actually be found in the tempo tap :)

The very best of music app I've ever come across, try and work on how to transcribe the staff to tonic solfa notation and their beats

It now can import external vst plugin! I think that's a really great upgrade that was not available in museScore 3 (CMIIW)

This is funny because you were NOT listening to the new sound library, but the old one :)

If you guys want to know more, you can check Tantacrul's video. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8mkaa98x9TJe4U.html

Privet my friends! I highly recommend this Music Notator! It needs a few more functionality but let me say this software has evolved on par with the big two! (Dorico & Sibelius). I own Dorico 5.1, Sibelius 2023, Finale, Notion 5, Encore, Cubase 13 and NOW MuseScore! What a delight to finally hear it's amazing sounds, Muse Sound! Well done guys, consider Dorico, Sibelius and MuseScore as the big 3 on Earth!

Years ago I bought Sibelius, which was really too big a program for my use. Keeping it up to date was too expensive considering my limited use. Later I bought Dorico Elements, which fits me perfect, but it also cost money to keep updated. Now I tried Musescore, and I dont think I'll ever leave it again. As a singer songwriter, it's more than enough for me.

You have to download the sound font plug in to get the advanced sound playback stuff.

Brilliant video my guy, thanks! Also FYI you have a slight look of Smith from The Matrix.

Musescore 4 looks very promising, but I'm going to stay with 3 until the bugs get worked out. Maybe we can finally get a good euphonium sound too 👀

Hi there been using musescore to transcribe. It seems it only allows uploading if a sheet music created is own composition or in public domain, etc. The other issue is does it only use piano or can you now change the sound without changing the notes/cleff to those of the instrument whose sound you are choosing. The main concern is does musescore allow turning these notes into solfège or writing both as apparently done by sybelius?

oh my gawd, it even has built in soundfonts and effects! I'm creaming

Mute voice function is missing in 4th version F 10 ( 1 2 3 4).

Any idea if it can be used efficiently on an iPad? Was looking at scoring apps that could do playback but preferably it would be useable on an iPad too cos I wanna use it with my band haha

Is amazing, but crashes on exporting music xml files. And unfortunately cannot totally move from Sibelius to Musescore unless there is a video export possibility.

I'd love to have something like this that works with chrome. Also a tablature program for Bass Guitar.

I use it to transpose songs I want in lower key

does musescore have contemporary/experimental music notation capabilities? can one create one's own notation in musescore? or does it cater to more traditional, conventional music only?

To me it is extremely disappointing how MuseScore 4 lacks essential MIDI features and has abandoned even most of what was present in MuseScore 3, which makes it impossible for me to use it to play a score on an attached MIDI keyboard.

I have a problem. When I hit the Alt key (left or right) the upper menu bar is highlighted. When I enter the editing lyrics and then I need some special characters, like Alt+N key for polish letter I don't get the letter but the command which is assigned to that shortcut. There is no way to edit the shortcuts as it is triggered by the menu bar. Is this a bug or I can change it comehow?

This update is wild

Can I save the audio (MP3 file) of the playback to my computer?

Has anyone managed to get it to publish without getting error 401? 6:28

Hello Eric, Why Noteperformer don´t work in Musescore?

Ok. I've just seen that they do SOLO instruments AND sections of such (strings etc). That was a huge selling point with me. Now, one question,......... can I import XLR files so I can hear my old Sibelius and Notion arrangements on MuseScore??

Does MuseScore work with Audio Units?

Do you know if it will allow me to import old Encore files? Now that Encore's bit the dust, I have to find a new notation program at some point, and it needs to be able to import my 100s of Encore charts.

Dose it work with iPad?

you never actually changed the sound of the violin to the new musesounds preset, you can do that with the mixer

Can Musescore also produce a true full-blown program for a full-program price? I (and many others) would love a replacement for hugely irritating Sibelius (which has plummeted down-hill since version 6), but so far not even Dorico has quite done that.

This is SO good I'm thinking of buying a NEW Mac computer so I can run this new software!!! Just PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE..... DO NOT do what Notion did with their excellent program and change it so radically that it's unrecognizable now!! Notion was great. Now it's crap! I just LOVE the sounds of MuseScore. Can't believe it's free. Even the articulations sound authentic. Ok, some improvement with the dynamics might just render this package as ......PERFECT!! I am blown away with the improvements to this program.

plz request them to add better scanning program from photos or pdf. audiveris is crap. It will be a great tool for learners of piano for practicing the etudes

bend is not working 😓

You actually have to download the sounds in the program, it is really easy, you were just using the old sounds

It has bugs. In one of my scores, a C sounded as D until I deleted and re-entered it. In the same score, it insists on shifting my E5 to G5; again I had to delete and re-enter. I started with 32 bars. On playback, it repeats da capo, though no repeat is indicated. Then when I added another 32 bars, instead of playing the new bars it repeated da capo again. Sibelius is a pain in the ass, but it's more mature than MuseScore4. (It would be good business for MS4 to be able to import .sib files. I exported a sib score as a midi file. MS4 could read it mostly OK, but it took a lot of fiddling to get it right. I tried exporting it to PDF, but when I try to import in MS4 it says sorry, paywall. They assume that I'm trying to import from their score library. So regrettably I'm sticking with Sibelius for now.

Note bends that worked in v3 are still non functional in v4.

Can't hear the programs volume!!!!!!

I can't quite follow the euphoria. I would have understood if you've delayed the Linux version a bit more. More than half the (for me) important features are simply not implemented (yet?). NO VST yet! I write a lot for my choir's mini-band (acoustic guitar, bass and v-drum). With a few tricks, the right soundfont and the "let ring" function, I've even managed to get a decent-sounding guitar sound under Linux MINT and version 3. When I heard some of my tracks with version 4.0 I wanted to throw up!!!

is it so much better than GuitarPro 8?

But you didn't use MuseSounds?! Or did you?

Commenting for the algorithm...

Go raibh míle maith agat☘

just wrote a big band chart on Musescore 4. Sorry, It was terrible. Sounds are better and the ideas are good, but its just so buggy. No Copy Part Layouts, and the long awaited 2 - bar repeats don't playback correctly. I'm back to Musescore 3 until Musescore 4 gets its game together.

I don't see why a film score couldn't be written with MS4. - No one writes better music because they've paid hundreds of pounds for their software !

Some software should be free but free should not be the main feature. As musicians we complain about playing for free so I am not so hyped. Sorry

I don´t know why everyone is saying this musescore 4 is great,when it´s total mess !a lot and I mean A LOT of bugs and malfunctions..basically it´s useless now

I swear Musescore 4 looks so good and solved so many problems that I had with the old software. It really makes me want to spend all day composing, but unfortunately I can't do that :/