MuseScore Studio 4.3: A new name, new Muse Sounds enhancements & more

[@Tantacrul]

Cowabunga

[@Nbrother1234]

What?

[@gammafoxlore2981]

@@Nbrother1234 exactly

[@TomMAF4]

@@Nbrother1234 I think he's letting everyone know that he gives musescore his blessing under new directorship

[@mynameisnotbruce6686]

What?

[@TomMAF4]

I think he's letting everyone know that he gives musescore his blessing under new directorship

[@nomadicleopard]

To the developers at Musescore, I just want to say you guys are legendary, and your software is better than your competitors asking for money. You guys are putting them to shame! Thank you for caring about us composers, arrangers and musicians!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

How long until they monetize like everyone else is now? But for now, let us relish the greatness for the cost of a free download.

[@WitchLuna7]

​@@TheRadioAteMyTV If I remember correctly, Musescore's license assure it's gonna be free forever. It's open source after all.

[@verystrongchild]

@@TheRadioAteMyTV It's under open-scourse and GNU GPLv2, so they actually *can't* sell the software.

[@sinancemyucel4644]

​​@@TheRadioAteMyTV Musescore is licensed under GNU GPLv2 which basically ensures that Musescore and all its predecessors will be open-source and free.

[@jomama5406]

​@@TheRadioAteMyTV Muse score is open source. It will likely never cost money and if it is forked and sold anyone who wants can pick up on the development

[@santherstat]

I can't say this enough: musescore went from a "neat little music app" to "this is the best notation software around, and it's free". Thank you SO MUCH for making it so amazing

[@baronvonbeagle9787]

Ong

[@Sylveowonium]

​@@baronvonbeagle9787 some might even say frfr

[@traduzindo_shorts]

Man, it's hard to wrap my mind around the fact Musescore is free. Like, WTF! Thank you all who work on Musescore development!

[@innervoicesrpg]

Proud to be part of the secret update video club!!! Yeehaw!!!

[@FortissimoMusicProductions]

Same here!

[@jenkinsfamily2229]

A full MuseSounds drum kit would be a DREAM.

[@jonahwr4096]

Yes please!

[@cameronsitton501]

Not to mention electric guitar

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

Yeah like why tf is there a bunch of individual drums but you can’t just make a drum set with all the sounds

[@musescore]

Watch this space!

[@thatotherandrew_]

Percussion player here, and this is hugely exciting indeed! I absolutely cannot wait to see what's coming, given how dreadful the experience of percussion writing is in Sibelius :>

[@jaas0225]

I already tried the soft mallets on timpani and it will make such a difference for the adagio movement that I will be writing next

[@rainbowsong909]

ITS AMAZING DUDE, IVE BEEN WANTING THIS FOR SO LONG

[@tucker6072]

Watching Musescore blossom from a hobbyist notation application to basically a professional composition software is insane. Thank you to the developers!

[@fenrirwolf7238]

Yeah, I recently changed from from Finale to MuseScore and boy has it improved my workflow 😂. Now I’m confident to say it’s a really potent software. And the fact that they’re always adding new features makes so happy 😊😁

[@paperempire2655]

as a musescore enjoyer, i am actively screaming for joy right now. i am fanboying a little too hard over notation software

[@DJmisterpeluca]

Yesterday I was using an orchestral VST that allows me to play instruments with different techniques. And today you post this. I almost felt like you're trolling me, well done.

[@Wecoc1]

Cowabunga indeed! The Stave text feature is very promising.

[@MrExplosion449]

Man, Musescore just keeps releasing better and better updates. I can’t explain enough how much having accessible and intuitive music software has done for me musically

[@AntoniSchonken]

OK this is wildly impressive improvement. Thank you to the developers!

[@acepokemontrainer1]

These are some amazing improvements and added features!

[@peytonashley9388]

dude 100% this is a game changer I've wanted the secco for cymbals for so long and y'all did not come to play y'all came to WIN. Can't wait for all the new stuff in the future! Keep being awesome :)

[@musescore]

Enjoy! 😄

[@scmontgomery]

Literally just now taking a break from composing on Musescore. I've been around since Musescore 1 and I'm just so stoked to see you keep growing

[@SirBoopBoop]

I've been using Musescore since Musescore 3 back when I was going to college from 2016 to 2020 and am so proud to see this program grow to become such a powerhouse of music notation software. And the best part is it's absolutely free. I literally have a license for Finale that I had to buy for college, and I stopped using it for Musescore about 7 years ago and haven't looked back. During college, I was supposed to be using Finale but I did all my assignments using Musescore, and my instructors were none the wiser 🤪. Big ups to the Musescore Studio devs! I'm 100% excited about what's next. Keep up the great work!

[@AlexanderPochertPiano]

Amazing story 😊 I'm just an amateur musician, but also used finale (notepad) in the past and musescore 4 is such a blessing!

[@PeterJaquesMusic]

THANK YOU FOR CHANGING THE NAME to distinguish it from the Musescore sheetmusic collection! It has been so confusing for newcomers for so long, that people thought they needed to pay to subscribe to the collection in order to use the application...

[@musescore]

Glad you agree! Hopefully things will be clearer going forward.

[@augiemcsmly]

To think that this is all free is such a blessing. Thanks musescore team

[@Jeremattress]

Euphonium MuseSounds

[@haydeb2007]

Real

[@gingersolacemusic7590]

Please

[@queijoduke]

Valid

[@Wesrets]

It will come in later! It has been said in the musescore discord that they will add more and more newsounds over time.

[@gingersolacemusic7590]

@@Wesrets There's a discord?

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Absolutely stunning!

[@fmguitar]

This latest version is amazing !! New features for playback are just fantastic. Just waiting for guitar sounds to be included. And improvement in guitar TAB notation... a Christmas gift ahead of schedule 🤩 Thanks guys for your hard work.

[@musescore]

We added guitar sounds and bends in the late update! Check out the 4.2 release video for more details.

[@octaviofurtado]

Wow, this looks great! 🔥🔥🔥

[@matcha69420]

This already wonderful software just keeps getting better! It's great to see a company that listens to its users for once, thank you Musescore Team :)

[@AZALI00013]

this looks awesome actually :0 im excited to try out all the features !!

[@MajenkoTechnologies]

My god, this is the first time a feature update announcement has made me cry! I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

[@diar3222]

They’ve done it again! Oh how I’m grateful for the staff at Musescore making incredible updates that make our lives so much easier. Thank you!

[@ducrenevannguyen5769]

Love the new features, ever since Musescore 4 it's just keeps getting better.

[@cstaeger]

I love Musescore, and my love increases with each release! Thank you for the great work - it sounds great to me! 😎

[@KanashimiMusic]

I've been wanting that feature for stave text for SO LONG. I love it.

Amazing work!!! Changing the articulations on the samplers is awesome! Very well done!

[@AshleyGittins]

Yet another astounding release, you guys are absolutely killing it!

[@ButedMesa]

I love watching these videos knowing well I barely know how to use this application. The new samples sound really nice though, especially knowing that they are free.

[@MQWalkman]

You guys are legends, and I am SO hyped for the upcoming drum update!!!

[@AriannaCunningham]

Wow! So thrilled that MuseScore Studio has released! I really like how there are new features, and liked how I can use the Stave Text via Muse Sounds!

[@raf5.13]

You're growing by leaps and bounds. What a team!

[@davidantonioripolllopez5335]

I m going to release my album fully made with musecore on a lot of platforms of streaming and I am happy with the result, now it is even better for my next one

[@leaval1178]

This is unbelievably good!!! Thank you so much for developing such a cool software! Without MuseScore I would never have gotten the chance to write orchestral pieces, and the new options with the stave texts are going to bring my music compositions to another level. You are the best :)

[@LuckyOwI777]

Another great update! As a percussionist, I'm super excited for the next big update! Lots of cool stuff this update though. I know I'll be using the hard vs soft mallet feature a lot in my writing. Amazing, as always! Keep up the great work!

[@89ji76]

The name change makes a lot of sense. I have been extremely confused by the different meanings of musescore between the desktop app and the sheet music. Never completely figured it out to be honest.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

That's a whole lot of WOW! Thanks to all of you.

[@deniscass]

Amazing! Great job devs!!! Thanks in advance!

[@RyanTosh]

I've never written music in my life but this is some good looking software

[@shaundaniel89]

Nice Product!

[@AARVMUSIC]

Really nice update! Going in the right direction

[@cornboy7424]

Amazing!! Love you all

[@minder01]

Musescore becoming a DAW with notation at it's centre is something I think will turn a leaf. It's great.

[@FranLegon]

I love this product.

[@richardmaia8732]

YOOOO Thank u so much team!

[@Khanh1200]

Goodness you came back!

[@fergusbyett8088]

You guys are incredible

[@johnmac8084]

Thank you for all your work, this is brilliant news 😀

[@glowco.717]

Not gonna lie, watching the original MuseScore 4 announcement video is the first time in my life a software update has made me genuinely freak out with excitement. I was texting friends in all caps about the vst support and all the fixes you made there that I’ve wished for for years(been using it since MuseScore 2). Very excited for MuseScore Studio 5 and to see where you all will go with this incredible program and community.

[@davidantonioripolllopez5335]

wow....every day better!!!

[@lauandersen4894]

This is absolutely amazing - Musescore was already top tier and it just keeps getting better. I have one BIG issue though. With the instrument packs (non native Instruments or whatever they are called, can't remember😅) the volume is completely off, and doesn't really represent the notatet dynamics. I have had to put ff on a saxofonen to even hear it in the midst of a band (the instruments herein) playing at mp. Other than that, it is perfect I must admit🙌🙌🥳

[@johannesbrahms1655]

I look forward to the day you add organ registration options

[@harvestedvoltage4324]

And accordion

[@NateDulcimer]

Yes! Though I think the easiest way to do that would be MIDI integration with Hauptwerk, GrandOrgue, or jOrgan. That way you could choose from all sorts of freely available or premium organ sets. On the other hand having some selections of sounds beyond a principal chorus from 16’ to scharf would be wonderful for composition. I would propose a grand organ sound, a softer flute chorus, something at 8’ good for accompaniment, and a solo stop. Mellow composing with choral parts sounds so weird with the general midi sound

[@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083]

It is a very HUGE task adding organ registration capabilities into Musecore. But I definitely want it.

[@The8BitPianist]

This sounds great! I'm still hoping for a MuseScore/MuseHub Flatpak version that is officially supported!

[@SO_Snake]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MUSE SOUNDS UPDATE FOR SO LONG THANK YOU SO MUCH (ps. I'm a percussionist so 4.4 will be a gamechanger for sure as well!) If you need any help with percussion for Muse Sounds or whatever I'm free if you want some help as I do miss some percussion instruments from the built-in instrument tab (ocean drum for example)

[@SO_Snake]

Wait what I can't click on the sound-icon :/

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

I am nervous about the new drums because I have gotten the hang of the ones that are in there now and I really like the playback I am getting from them. There used to be the most beautiful synth sound (like Van Halen's 1984) that I used, and then an update turned it into a melting pieces of goo sound that whined as it went. Some updates really destroy the good that came before them.

[@SO_Snake]

@@TheRadioAteMyTV Maybe it is a good idea to keep legacy percussion interface then yea, I can see how that can be dubious

[@SO_Snake]

Fixed it with thank of the discord server :) I reverted my settings to factory and then it worked (Help > Revert to Factory Settings)

[@Hinipe]

Nice to see an improved background music for this update video.

[@c0ns1d1ne]

Great work. Really hope stuff for drumset charts is part of the upcoming percussion improvements.

[@amypellegrini1732]

This program is just unbelievable! Fucking awesome job.

[@rafaele.zavalacamero3099]

So great!!

[@sungvin]

You guys there are insanely awesome, thank you so much

[@its_not_nice]

Nice!

[@franc5148]

that is so cool, thank you

[@Mattchudon]

OMG, where was this update when I was writing out the winter show for my percussion group?! This makes things so much easier!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

If it's for percussion, wait until they drop the entirely new percussion set they have been working on behind the scenes for years now. It's almost done.

[@TanookiAlex]

You guys do amazing work

[@mma93067]

Score versioning?!!! This is exactly i was missing for ages 🎉🎉🎉

[@rmmvw]

Give me a timeline grid and I'm yours forever! But amazing work. As someone who is going from Ableton to musescore it's taking me a bit to learn the program but I love that you guys are constantly improving!

[@98flava]

Yes, and the ability to have video playback in real time would be amazing for film composers.

[@colenbacher]

This is awesome!

[@THEDJAG-gt1tz]

Awwsome! i love this program!

[@marcmagras]

Thank you Musescore!

[@Reeal15]

Loving MuseScore 4...can't wait for a port of MDL for all of the Marching Band directors!

[@jessicaeskebk5945]

This looks so cool

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Sounds good too.

[@LeotheTiger1234]

The best freebie I ever downloaded!

[@hichewies]

this is legendary! if you could, please expand your percussion library to stuff such as surdos, paper djuns, bombos, etc. because that would really help us write a more intense percussion section

[@nicostein9875]

Oh yeah... it's all coming together.

[@codascheuer8426]

Wow, this is very good! Musescore is almost the best notation software out there, and it’s free! Still has a few limitations, but I’m sure with the new updates to come, it’ll rise to the level of Dorico ^^

[@arnelgutierrez6168]

Blessing for us..

[@jslovelymusic]

MuseScore is the industry standard. Period.

[@feellliix]

We need jazz Musesounds!!

[@TimelessTimothy]

Agreed! I want fully developed Percussion instruments, or at least the ability to make a direct conversion of the MDL extension into Musescore v4.

[@Carlos_A_Fdez_Mol]

Gracias por crear un software tan versátil, potente y fácil de utilizar. Y sobretodo por mejorarlo continuamente

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

I hope they add different trumpet sounds to musescore, it would really help me when I transcribe my marching band music, so I can listen to just my part.

[@xtrememinus2]

All y'all doing god's work and I'm so glad each and every one of you exist.

[@batalayar]

Can't see any news about your new design and logo, at least at my mobile Google Play version! By the way, your app is improving so much during this and last year, I remember I hated it so much in 2020-2022, it was so laggy and messy, but now, wow!

[@jezzaroddy]

Musescore is undoubtedly the best!

[@paulysguitarjournal]

I love MuseScore… Studio.

[@deanosaur75]

This is such an amazing software! Are you considering doing an overhaul to the pipe organ?

[@Pooter-it4yg]

Great work. I've been a Sib user for about three decades - it was the only game in town, but I've recently been disappointed by how sclerotic it's become and the Kafkaesque process of migrating it to a new PC. Death by Avid, I presume. So I've bitten the bullet and MS is going fine. I will miss Note Performer though - for me, it rendered the native Sib playback redundant overnight. I would hope there are plans in the pipeline. Arne is a really approachable chap and I'm sure he'd be amenable to solving the issues of "hooking in" a paid addition to an open source program. It is of course basically a read-ahead MIDI output interpreter that "books a room" in the host program hotel and I don't think other developers had to lose much sleep to add compatibility. Basic "to picture" integration would be very desirable too, if you can sort out the codec licensing tangle. I personally only use it occasionally, but in these times when everyone dreams of being Williams or Zimmer it's probably an essential for most. But I don't think MS needs to be a total codec polyglot (at least at first) - these days converting video formats is trivial. I'd suggest you pick a decent free to use format and go with that. On the subject of which, I remember not that long ago converting cues to pixellated monochrome postage stamp video so I could work to them without grinding the computer to a halt...

[@composicionesyarreglosmusi3709]

Muy interesante todos los cambios y asignaciones, herramientas nuevas. Felicitaciones a los creadores. Saludos desde Perú. Saludos

[@davideiotti9725]

Super useful update

[@botondkovacs6195]

Dear Developers! Thank you for everything! A quick question; are you planning to integrate sound libraries, that can be purchased in Staffpad?

[@MAXERNEST]

To call myself a musician would be quite a stretch :} but this program is very good at showing what the dots sound like in a score,it is something i have always found fascinating ,its like any new language a bit of a learning curve, i do dabble in the alchemy of MIDI , i find it a useful tool to display the notes in a MIDI file , i like this program a lot :}

[@lucianoluciano5478]

It's so crazy that they give this for free!

[@nigelmoyes9798]

“Long awaited good news for percussionists” That’s me!!!

[@AdiStoenescu]

musescore makes the best looking sheets, love it! I still miss one key feature, though, the ability to record in realtime from midi keyboard.

[@jarodvmusic]

Very Exciting!!

[@ThatComposer]

OMGGG THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@Blue-Science]

tbh, I'd really love an update focused on stability and formatting. Not related. Just the two things that I have the most issues with

[@HishamKhalaf1]

An excellent notation application with great features. I think it is better than finale & Sibelius. It is for free. Thank you so much.