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In MuseScore 4,
many of the features and interfaces

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have been revamped
to make the overall experience

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easier to use and more powerful, too.

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So in this video,
I’m going to give a very quick overview

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of some of the major changes we’ve made
to help you get up and running right away.

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First, if you want to alter
the appearance of MuseScore,

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you can do this in the app preferences.

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Here, you can change the overall theme
as well as the accent colour.

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In addition, we’ve also introduced
a customisable high-contrast mode

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to cater to various different kinds
of visual impairment.

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One of the most important changes
to call out

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is how you can manage instruments
and part scores.

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So, after you’ve created a new score,
the list of instruments

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will be represented
in a new Instruments panel.

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This panel allows you to rearrange,

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hide or customise your instruments
at any point.

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Second, part scores can be accessed
at any time

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by clicking on this Parts button
in the top bar,

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and you’ll now be able to open
and close them whenever you like.

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If you wish to make changes
to a part score,

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for example, if you’d like the piano
to be displayed in this violin part,

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you can do this
using the Instruments panel.

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You can choose
whatever instrument ordering you like

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in a part score

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without needing to worry about it
affecting your main score.

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For those coming from MuseScore 3,

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the options to add or subtract staves
or create linked staves,

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which used to be found in the pop-up
for adding or removing instruments,

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have been moved
to the new Instruments panel instead,

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so you can see the effects
of the changes you make.

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Playback improvements
are the single largest change

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we’ve made to MuseScore 4.

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Apart from our new Orchestra library,

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we now have support
for VST instrument plug-ins,

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which can be applied to instruments
using our new Mixer panel.

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This panel also lets you
easily switch between VSTi,

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Soundfont or our new Orchestra library.

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And you can apply VST effects here, too.

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It’s worth mentioning

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that we’re only just getting started with
our support for VST instruments

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and will be greatly expanding
MuseScore’s capabilities

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over the next few releases.

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Due to issues with our old SFZ playback,

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we took the decision
to remove the Zerberus synthesiser.

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For anyone who previously used SFZ files
for playback in MuseScore 3,

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we now recommend
that you use a free VST sampler,

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like Sfizz or Sforzando instead.

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And please note
that we’ll be including the ability

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to create custom playback profiles
in an upcoming release.

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Some score interactions have also changed.

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In particular,

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you can now double-click on a measure
to enter Note Input mode.

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You can also now quickly
isolate instruments

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you’d like to hear during playback

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by selecting one of its measures
and pressing Play.

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And you can hear a range of instruments

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by selecting multiple relevant measures
and pressing Play.

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This will save you from needing to
constantly keep turning on and off

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the Solo and Mute buttons in the mixer.

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If you want to hear full playback
from any position,

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simply select an element on the score,
rather than a measure, and press Play.

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We’ve also completely redesigned
the Inspector panel,

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which is now called Properties.

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One of the first things
you’ll notice about it

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is that it’s docked on the left
by default.

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If you want to change this position,
you can drag on the tab to move it —

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next to the other panels
or over to the other side of the screen.

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The options in this panel
have been somewhat re-organised.

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When nothing is selected,
it displays multiple useful options,

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like the ability to show
or hide empty staves

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or various other types of score markings.

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And if you select a measure,
you’ll also see useful options

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to add more measures
or delete them quickly.

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Where, in MuseScore 3,

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you needed to select a single element type
before you could make changes to it,

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MuseScore 4 will always display
relevant settings,

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regardless of how many things
are selected.

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The Properties panel
has two general options:

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playback and appearance.

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The Appearance option can be opened
when you want to make precise changes

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to things like leading space,
minimum distance or offset.

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The Playback option
will display relevant playback settings

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for any selected element.

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Note that if an element
doesn’t contain playback settings,

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this option will be disabled.

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So if you now add
one of our new tempo lines to the score,

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you can change how it speeds up
or slows down here.

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The popups which contain both playback
and appearance settings

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will remain open
when you move from element to element

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to minimise the number of times
you need to reopen them.

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It’s worth mentioning
that we’re planning on

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creating a new panel in future releases.

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that will contain more sophisticated tools
for editing playback,

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so, to some extent this area
of the Properties panel

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is in a transitionary state
and will be further improved over time.

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For those entering and editing text,

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we now keep all text options in one place
in the Properties panel.

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This is also where you’ll find
the Insert special characters button, too.

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Apart from that,

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we’ve taken the two playback panels
from MuseScore 3

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and combined them into one,

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which is now placed
in the top-right corner.

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If you undock this panel,
it expands to include a scrubbing feature.

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There are a few other key options
that have switched to different positions.

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Workspaces and the all-important
Concert Pitch toggle

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are now in the bottom bar,

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alongside the viewing options
for Page View and Continuous View.

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It’s also important to point out
that there are one or two features

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which were technically incompatible
with MuseScore 4,

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which we’ll be rebuilding
and re-introducing in upcoming releases.

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In particular,
the Documents side-by-side feature

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and the Image Capture tool.

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Lastly,
due to the increased sophistication

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of our audio engine,

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it was necessary for us to alter MuseScore
so that each project has its own window

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to allow us to efficiently switch
between the playback of different scores.

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This has been a very quick overview
of the changes we’ve made.

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There’s lots more to go through,

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including how to download
and setup our new Orchestra library

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as well as a description
of our massive new engraving improvements,

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both of which are covered
in different videos.

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One of the reasons we built MuseScore 4

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was so that it had
the right technical underpinning

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to be able to make improvements
much more quickly in future.

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So you can expect to be seeing
a lot more updates coming very soon.

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And if you’re curious to learn about these
when they happen,

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please subscribe to this channel.

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Thanks a lot and take care.