Muse Group has released MuseScore Studio 4.4.2, a maintenance update that addresses stability issues, fixes a problem with MuseScore Studio’s online functionality, improves playback quality especially on less powerful computers, and includes several other enhancements and fixes in various areas.
Here are the fixes in MuseScore Studio 4.4.2, as provided in an announcement on the MuseScore news site.
Online functionality & MuseScore.com
- Some users reported that MuseScore Studio 4.4 was unable to connect to the internet and that they could not log in to their MuseScore.com and Audio.com accounts. This has been resolved.
- This update includes changes that facilitate a fix for the “Send to YouTube” feature on MuseScore.com.
Stability improvements
- A crash has been fixed that occurred when opening a score containing a rest beamed together with the next two notes
- A crash and a corruption that occurred when changing the actual length of a measure have been fixed
- A crash when hiding staves with lyrics has been fixed
- A crash when closing a score under specific circumstances has been solved
- A problem that caused all parts of the UI to be detached from the main window, sometimes resulting in crashes upon further interaction, is now prevented
Engraving and score interaction fixes
- You can now drag multiple hairpins at the same time to move them around
- Dynamics can now smoothly be dragged across barlines again
- Dragging dynamics or expression text no longer affects adjoining hairpins when snapping has been turned off
- Vertical centering of dynamics no longer interferes with harp pedal diagrams
- Layout issues related to the ‘Combine with voices that share the same stem direction’ property have been fixed
- Repositioning images by dragging them with the mouse works again
- Joining measures no longer causes certain elements to be shifted or lost
- Undoing after joining measures no longer results in unexpected behaviour
- Beams no longer (dis)appear unexpectedly under specific circumstances in continuous view
- No unexpectedly large brackets/braces appear anymore when deleting staves under certain circumstances
Playback fixes & improvements
- The audio engine has been further tweaked, improving performance on all devices but especially on less powerful hardware (note: to get the most out of this, you need the latest version of MuseSampler, which is the engine behind Muse Sounds. To receive the latest version, close MuseScore Studio and then open Muse Hub, which will install the update in the background.)
- Pedal playback for VST has been fixed
- An issue involving tempo markings and measures with a reduced duration has been fixed
- Metronome markings containing ‘c.’ (in the meaning of ‘circa’) after the ‘=’ sign are now also accepted
- Preview playback of chord symbols just after entering them is back again
- You’ll hear no more unexpected portamento effects when clicking on notes to preview their sound
- In MuseScore Studio 4.4, the ‘Solo’ button for the metronome track was intentionally removed. However, for existing scores where the metronome track was already soloed, this meant that it couldn’t be unsoloed again, leaving all other channels stuck in silence. In MuseScore Studio 4.4.2, such scores are now automatically fixed.
Miscellaneous fixes
- Chord symbols are now exported to MIDI again
- The state of the Loop button in the playback panel correctly updates again when opening a different score
- When running the AppImage on Linux, the app name and icon are correctly recognised again
- In the Properties panel for fretboard diagrams, hovering the preview diagram no longer results in the fingerings disappearing
- MuseScore Studio 4.4 contained a fix that prevented chord symbols to be rendered wrongly in scores with custom chords XML files after saving and reopening such scores. Version 4.4.2 goes a step further, by also automatically fixing scores from older versions when opening them.
More details are provided on the MuseScore 4.4.2 Github page.
In addition to details of the 4.4.2 update, the announcement said:
“We are planning to release one more version in the 4.4 series, namely 4.4.3, which will available in a couple of weeks. This update will mainly bring more bug fixes, but we might include some small new features as well. After that, we will focus on the development of MuseScore Studio 4.5, which will bring a long-awaited overhaul to the percussion input flow, among other things. Stay tuned!”
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I apologize if this question has already been answered but …
I am eagerly awaiting the promised fix to dynamics and hairpins. In MS 3.62, users could edit both Dynamics Marks and Hairpins to change the volume to any values they wished. So, a “p” could be reentered as 43 instead of 49. An up hairpin could be edited to +4 in value instead of a full dynamics step. Actual scores frequently and consistently changed their note volumes in small increments rather than just larger dynamics jumps.
MS 4.0 developers went round and round on this and promised to implement this ability in a future update. In checking update notes for 4.0, I have not found notes that indicate this has been done. Has it? Does MS 4.4.2 now have the ability to input any velocity values we wish in dynamics or hairpins? Please let me know. I do want to start using it.
still not working with me. Such a disaster since the 4.4 ;/
I can see the mixer, while the main app window is invisible, nothing works.
Try “Help” -> “Revert to factory settings”. A lot of people have had the UI break on them with the 4.4 updates, including me.