MS4 Release Video 08

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

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

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

been revamped and they have customisable
accent colours too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

accompanying instruments you'd like to see,

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

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

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

like accelerando and ritardando.

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

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

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

But we're only getting started.

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

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

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

consider this notation from MuseScore
3 which now looks like this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It will sound like this:

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

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

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

implementation as well as translations,
documentation and support for users.

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks a lot and take care!