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Hi there, my name is Martin Keary and I'm[br]delighted to announce the release of MuseScore 4,

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a gigantic overhaul that touches on...[br]well, everything! Let me show you.

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First, it has a completely new look.[br]The light and dark themes have both

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been revamped and they have customisable[br]accent colours too.

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And for those with visual impairment, you can turn on[br]a customisable high-contrast mode.

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Along with the visual changes, we've spent a[br]lot of time improving the experience to help

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you find things more easily and notate[br]faster. For example, the top bar now contains tuplets

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and articulations and has many more options[br]that you can show or hide by clicking here.

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We've completely redesigned the Inspector,[br]which we've renamed 'Properties' and have

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added all kinds of little features and[br]improvements so that it's much more

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useful than before. It's also much smarter.[br]No matter how many things you select on you score,

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it will always be able to display relevant[br]options so you can change them quickly.

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We've also simplified the system for opening and[br]customising part scores. Select 'Parts' up here,

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choose the part you want and - using this[br]new instruments panel - you can show any

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accompanying instruments you'd like to see,

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rearrange them and alter their settings[br]too. And by the way you can also use this instruments

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panel to add staves or create linked staves,[br]which is really useful for guitar tablature.

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Now, here's a hallelujah moment for you:[br]MuseScore finally support the playback of tempo lines,

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like accelerando and ritardando.

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We've also improved the link with MuseScore.com,

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which makes it easier for you to save[br]your work to the cloud privately.

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You can then choose to publish your work on[br]MuseScore.com once your score is complete

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But we're only getting started.

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Next is the gigantic overhaul we've made to[br]our engraving. Sheet music in MuseScore has

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been transformed so that it's now highly professional[br]by default. One aspect of this is our new system

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for horizontal spacing. To give just one[br]example of how much this improves things:

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consider this notation from MuseScore[br]3 which now looks like this.

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We've also rewritten our systems for beaming, slurs,[br]ties and cross-staff notation.

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Apart from that the positioning of hundreds of [br]different symbols are much better than before.

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Dynamics are positioned more accurately by default, You[br]can customize notation to have straight or

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traditional flags. We've added new notation[br]fonts, like Maestro and Broadway - and

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we've significantly improved and expanded[br]our own flagship notation font, Leland.

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But we're still not done because I've not[br]yet mentioned the biggest change of all,

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which is that MuseScore has an entirely new audio[br]engine and playback system. This has enabled us

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to support VST instruments and effects, which can[br]be assigned via our new mixer, like this. An even

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more exciting consequence of our audio engine can[br]be found by opening our new Muse Hub application,

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where you'll see something called Muse Sounds,[br]which is an orchestral plugin we've spent two

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years developing. Once Muse Sounds is installed,[br]playback will no longer sound like this:

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It will sound like this:

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It requires no customisation or[br]complex mapping to set up and it's free.

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MuseScore 4 is the result of a dedicated[br]collaboration between my team and the open

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source community, who provided us[br]with endless help on design and

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implementation as well as translations,[br]documentation and support for users.

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For those who want to get up and running as fast[br]as possible, we've released multiple tutorials,

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which can be accessed from within MuseScore 4[br]itself or by searching this channel.

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with MuseScore 4, we've now got the[br]sophisticated technical foundation we

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need to build new features with much greater[br]speed in future. There are a lot of big things coming

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soon and if you're interested in finding out[br]about them, please subscribe to this channel.

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Thanks a lot and take care!