Release notes for MuseScore 3.5.2 (October 16, 2020)
Fixes
Fixed an unexpected page stretching in "Edit style" dialog.
#311520: Fixed an issue of harmony playback preferences. Previously, the real value of "Chord symbol playback" was not taken into account until the first toggle of this setting.
#311621: Fixed an issue with audio export on Windows, previously exporting to .FLAC or .OGG could result in an empty file that cannot be played.
#311661: Fixed a potential crash that could occur when resizing the Piano Roll.
#311695: Edits to system text/tempo marking after save and reload of score did not propagate to all parts.
Release notes for MuseScore 3.5.1 (October 9, 2020)
Fixes
Fixed a crash during voice changing of chord with tied grace note
Fixed crashes when using hbox within vbox
Fixed a crash when deleting all measures
Fixed a crash when changing Common time to Cut time in parts
Fixed a crash on playback of score with MM rest at the end
Fixed a crash when drag-and-dropping a breath & pause or rest symbol from the score to a custom palette
Fixed a crash on flipping beam across system break
Fixed crashes when pasting fret diagram without chord symbol in score with parts
Fixed a crash when doing file operations after changing translations in preferences
Fixed an issue of corruption caused by editing certain tuplets
Fixed a crash caused by Start Center if there is no Internet connection
Fixed a crash on DPI change in preferences
Fixed a crash when inserting a new measure within a melisma
Fixed multiple issues with Jumps and repeats
Complete list of issues resolved and improvements implemented
#310349: Fixed a crash during voice changing of chord with tied grace note
#311084: Fixed an issue with curly bracket scaling when using MuseJazz
#308589: Fixed an issue with scaling of tuplet number
#310906: Fixed an issue of Staff/Part dialog not becoming dirty after changes if activated via double click
#309857: Fixed an issue of divider not being removed after undo of deleting a vertical frame
#310570: Fixed an issue of triple and quadruple dots not being exported correctly
#310603: Fixed an issue of tremolo customizations lost on second save/reload
Fixed various issues with the handling of title frame on MusicXML import
#301395: Fixed an issue of decrescendo not working on tied notes with subchannels
#308469: Fixed an issue of changing portaudio preferences not working
Fixed an issue with loudness of accents
#302714: Chord symbol playback settings are now available in Edit Style dialog
#257581: Fixed an issue of changes to Measure properties not being propagated between score and parts (fix got reverted for 3.5.2, will get looked at again for 3.6)
#306950: Fixed an issue of Ctrl+Delete command not allowed in note input mode
Added preferences to disable chord symbol playback when opening old scores, or creating new ones
#185056: Fixed an issue with entering notes above/below staff
#307720: Fixed an assertion failure when adding image to vertical frame
#153686: Fixed issues with voice and chords with drum input
#307841: Fixed crashes when using hbox within vbox
#307991: Fixed a crash when deleting all measures
#308077: Added the guitar "Solo" templates with default guitar sound
#298779: Fix invisible elements not getting displayed after turning "Show invisible" on
#308562: Fixed an issue of 1-line staves showing unexpected vertical offset
#308568: Fixed an issue of bad selection and corruption on delete
#308947: Fixed a crash when changing Common time to Cut time in parts
#308951: Fixed a crash on playback of score with MM rest at the end
#309005: Updated extra navigation shortcuts to handle MMRests appropriately
#308661: Updated offsets of Gonville's top & bottom bracket glyphs
#309032: "Add clef" shortcuts are now allowed to also work in normal mode
#309066: Fixed an issue of clicking footer text corrupting parts
#308698: Fixed an issue of continuous view stopping repeats from working in playback
#308860: Fixed a crash when drag-and-dropping a breath & pause or rest symbol from the score to a custom palette
#309273: Fixed a crash on flipping beam across system break
#309369: Fixed an issue of status bar not showing concert pitch of octave transposing instruments
#284357: Fixed an issue of ambitus not being correctly calculated for (octave) transposing instruments
#309380: Fixed crashes when pasting fret diagram without chord symbol in score with parts
#309419: Fixed an issue of instrument change data not being properly saved in linked staves
#309592: Fixed an issue of flipping “above” breaths/pauses to “below” when pasting a measure with them
#309594: Now possible to flip breaths/pauses using X
#309665: Fixed an issue of alpha (transparency) not showing on several symbols and Elements
#309754: Create Time Signature dialog now doesn't add unnecessary special text whenever the internal value of nominator or denominator is changed
#308821: Added fractional Time Signatures Support
#308139: Fixed an issue of unintended loss of denominator in Time Signatures
#308694: Fixed an issue of exporting to WAV, OGG, FLAC files with path name that contains non-ASCII characters
#309025: Fixed crashes after updating due to qmlcache
#304834: Adjusted the size of a settings field for multimeasure rests
#309456: Fixed an issue of workspace being changed to Basic when changing language settings
#309872: Fixed a crash when doing file operations after changing translations in preferences
#309874: Fixed an issue of corruption caused by editing certain tuplets
#278817: Fixed a crash caused by Start Center if there is no Internet connection
#310869: Fixed a crash on DPI change in preferences
#311289: Fixed a crash when inserting a new measure within a melisma
#310969: Fixed an issue of a pair of acciaccaturas showing two slashes instead of one
#274690: Fixed crash on playback when score starts with a volta
#279040 and #300362: Fixed bugs with "play repeats" in combination with a D.S.
#287447: Fixed mismatch between segno and end location for multiple jumps
#299320: Fixed D.S. when segno is preceded by a repeat
#299137 and #304795: Fixed interpretation of start repeat and volta in the same measure
#284887: Fixed crash on end of score playback some scenarios
Some translation files are installed or not installed depending on the
visibility of qt5-qttranslations in the build environment. For now,
simply explictly require this as a dependency. (It looks like there may
be more translation components to consider, but that's TBD separate
from basic build consistency.) Thanks to wiz@ for mentioning this.
Also, they've bumped the minimum GCC accepted from 4.7 to 4.8.
New features
Option available in Preferences for playback of chord symbols
Mid-staff instrument changes now do almost everything automatically (see below)
Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
Hairpins, voltas, and other lines now adapt anchor points when dragged
Much more functional piano roll editor (see below)
Splash screen displays progress messages while loading MuseScore
Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
Select Similar Elements: Same Beat
#293113: New Score Wizard automatically numbers instruments
#18897: Property for beam style of tremolo (all strokes attached to stem)
#296075: Style for hiding brackets which span to a single staff when empty staves are hidden
#203026: Properties and styles for measure number positioning, including centered and below staff
#65241: Property and style for position of multimeasure rest numbers
#299644: Property for fretboard diagram rotation
Improvements
#16077: Double-click a header, footer, or instrument name to access the dialog for editing it
#27371: Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
Improved layout of two-note and single-note tremolos, with and without stem
#93376: Smooth scrolling during playback in Continuous view
Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
#303617: Metric modulation for dotted eighth to quarter
Automatic collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
Staff property to automatically merge rests between voices
Allow selection of multiple similar items with shift+click
Allow "repeating a note" by clicking a notehead then pressing "R" in normal mode
Changes made in Preferences are applied significantly faster
Style options to align chord symbols within systems
More zoom controls
Additional plugin capabilities
Altered keyboard and mouse zoom precision and consistency
Improved performance of applying preferences
Chords playback is on by default (untick the "play" property to disable it)
Adding notes to a tuplet now adds them with respect to the tuplet's space
MuseScore 3 is now available as a Windows PortableApp
Altered Shift+L/R for leading space while in edit mode upon notehead
All symbols are now available for the plugins
Fixes
JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
#148311: Loop playback skipped final rests in the last measure
MIDI note-off events were not sent in some cases
Undoing slur addition to a range only removed one slur
Canceling a selection worked incorrectly in some cases
macOS package was not notarized in Apple
Various fixes for the text editing process
Fixed an issue when hiding notes or rests in a voice > 1 causes stems/beams to flip in a bad and unexpected way
Fixed an issue when two grace notes disabling vertical chord alignment (Maximum Shift Above)
Fixed an issue when "maximum shift above" leading to layout weirdness if measure has rhythm slashes and rests
Fixed an issue with inactive "Realize chord symbols" command
Fixed an issue when key signature appears in multiple places on the single staff
Fixed an issue with missing grid of measures in the "timeline" view
Fixed an issue with appearing of empty dialog during the "Save Online"
Fixed an crash during the drag & drop of volta in continuous view
Brackets were displaced in Continuous View
Nested tuplets in linked staves led to corruption
Octave selection was inconsistent in note input mode
Voices worked incorrectly in the parts dialog in some cases
Misclicking when attempting to create a range selection caused the current selection to be lost
On-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts was broken in some cases
Smooth scrolling worked wrong in Continuous view when dealing with repeats
Saving Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) file didn't work
Fixed zoom-box 100% selection bug.
Fixed a bug with ignoring of blank lines at top of text elements
Fixed an issue when cut/paste, drag/drop in Piano Roll Editor does not preserve NoteEvent values
Fixed a playback of chord symbols attached to fret diagrams
Fixed a note entry suggested position with no selection and last selected note in voice > 1
Fixed a display of the bold and underlined texts
Fixed the "Save Online" on AppImages
Complete list of issues resolved and improvements implemented
#307433: Fixed crash when adding voltas in continuous view and improved behaviour when there are repeats
#308023: Nothing happens when select Realize chord symbols via tools->Realize chord symbols
#308281: Fixed blank upload dialog on Mac
#307883: Key Signature appears too many times in Parts
#308145: Fixed a missing grid in timeline view
#308371: Fixed the bad stem directions on tab staves
#307945: Two Grace Notes Disable Vertical Chord Alignment (Maximum Shift Above)
#307946: Chord Symbols > Maximum Shift Above is weird if measure has rhythm slashes and rests
pkgsrc-specific change: explicitly turn off the telemetry feature,
which was added in the 3.4 series. (There are inconsistencies in the
CMake settings such that with the default configuration it states that
telemetry is turned off, but some components are still built.)
This should address build failures that were occurring with the older
3.2.3 release in combination with Qt 5.14. (It builds and runs for me
on NetBSD amd64 8.1_STABLE and 9.99.44.)
(NB supporting i386 builds would require tweaks to the packaging. I've
left that as a separate exercise TBD.)
The change logs don't seem to be available in an easily aggregated but
condensed form. Highlights of the 3.3 and 3.4 series are:
3.4
New
Apply palette elements with a single click if there is a selection in the score
Allow dragging notes horizontally
Slurs, hairpins and other elements can be edited after single click
Add middle adjustment handle for beams, for moving whole beam vertically
Improvements
Double click is not needed to reach edit mode anymore
Introduce section break properties, bend properties, tremolo bar properties in the Inspector
Allow access to several properties window in the Inspector
Name of the newly created custom palette can be specified
Accessibility: improve speech for elements with spanners
Fixes
"Don't play trill" option silenced the note playback
Slurs on small staves were displaced in some cases
Barline handles were drawn incorrectly after dragging one
Strings in the Part dialogue were ambiguous
Y Offset value of fretboards didn't restore after undoing the values being changed from Edit Mode
Replacing a note with an accidental left the accidental on the new note
Adding Intervals (above/below) didn't take into consideration the accidental toggle state
Multiple chord symbols attached to same note didn't copy as part of the range
Strings in fret diagrams without "X" or "O" displayed as "?" on Linux
MuseScore crashed when changing a triplet's rest's duration
Images attached to rests weren't imported from MuseScore 2
Tremolo Bar dialog had multiple UX issues
AppImage: system printers weren't available in the print dialog
3.3
New
Complete palettes redesign
Note Input workflow improvements
Native support for Roman numeral analysis and Nashville notation
Improvements
Chord Symbol Formatting not only for MuseJazz has been supported
Symbols can be attached to barlines
Multiple improvements to the Plugin API
Implement changing palette and palette cell properties on fly
Current workspace is automatically saved on each action that changes the workspace
Palettes and workspaces can be reset to the default state defined by the workspace you started customisations from
Improve algorithm for determining start point for note input
Move the viewport to show actual changes in the score if they are outside of the current view
Fixes
NVDA screen reader didn't work
Various MusicXML Import/Export fixes
Various fixes for the playback of tied notes, muted voices and notes being edited in parts
Sticking was not linked between score and parts
The presence of fretboard diagrams prevented input of chord symbols in other staves
Loop playback was set incorrectly in parts
Shortcuts navigation across the palettes was broken
Palettes and palette cells were not translated
It was impossible to enter successive sticking elements
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software.
Features:
* WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a "virtual notepaper"
* TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality scaling
to all sizes
* Easy & fast note entry
* Many editing functions
* MusicXML import/export
* MIDI (SMF) import/export
* MuseData import
* MIDI input for note entry
* Integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score
* Print or create pdf files
