What's new in this version: Musical notation: - Automatic placement - potential collisions between elements are detected and resolved automatically, allowing you to easily create great-looking scores with little need for manual adjustment - Improved parts facility - link parts to specific voices within a staff - System dividers - automatically generate dividers between systems - Staff type changes - change staff size, number of lines, and other properties mid-score - Temporary and cutaway staves - staves may appear and disappear as needed, including the ability to have empty measures be completely invisible - MuseJazz font - give all elements in your scores a handwritten appearance - Named noteheads - automatically display pitch names in noteheads using a variety of different naming schemes
Usability: - Tours - get online help automatically as you need it - Timeline - navigate using a graphical overview of the music structure of your score that shows rehearsal marks, changes of tempo, key, and time signature, etc. - Score comparison tool - easily view differences between versions of a score - Single page mode - vertically scrolling view of your score - Improved Inspector - control more element properties and set style defaults directly from the Inspector window, including new above/below placement settings - Palette search - enter a search term to quickly find any symbol - Timewise note input and editing - insert and deletes notes and rests within measures, automatically shifting subsequent music forwards or backwards - Next/previous element - Alt+Right/Left shortcuts to navigate through each element of your score - Auto-update - no longer necessary to download and install new versions from musescore.org
Playback: - Improved Mixer - mute individual voices, collapse channels into a single column, assign MIDI ports and channels - Improved Piano Roll Editor - easier control of the playback parameters of each note in your score - Redesigned Play Panel - docked within main window
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