Guitar notation—tab, chords, and fretted-instrument scoring.
MuseScore Studio 4.7, the final 4.x release, adds arrowheads on lines, chord brackets, guitar dives, ASIO support on Windows, and workflow improvements for repeat and duration changes.
Dorico 6.2.10 arrives with further guitar tablature refinements, a more granular approach to smart quotes controlled at the paragraph and character style level, a new option for tuplet bracket position, and more than three dozen bug fixes.
Dorico 6.2 adds smarter handling of repeats, expanded guitar tablature features, improved harmonic notation, engraving refinements, and workflow updates.
The MuseScore Studio 4.3 release is centered around enhancing playback and setting the table for future updates. There are additional improvements in the areas of clefs, key signatures, guitar tablature, MusicXML, sharing to MuseScore.com, and more.
At the 2024 NAMM Show, Muse Group's Jack Sutton discusses their inaugural presence at NAMM as the parent company of Hal Leonard. We learn about the company's plans to expand offerings in licensing and publishing, as well as new MuseScore features.
MuseScore 4.2 sports many new guitar notation and playback features like bends and alternate string tunings, and a new sample library. Improvements in score/part synchronization, harp pedal diagrams, arpeggios, ties, Braille, MusicXML import, sharing, and more round out this update.
Muse Group, the company which owns MuseScore, StaffPad, Ultimate Guitar, and Audacity, has acquired Hal Leonard, the largest publisher of sheet music and educational books.
MuseScore 4.1 includes the ability to customize ornaments, harp pedaling, guitar capo, better dynamics, an upgrade to the playback engine, new auxiliary channel strips in the mixer, and performance improvements.
Sibelius 2023.2 refines score subsets and dynamic guitar staves, allowing them to behave more independently for greater flexibility. Elsewhere, the ManuScript language can export audio in all bit depths and sample rates.
Sibelius 2022.7 adds dynamic guitar staves, which dynamically link a guitar notation staff with a guitar tab staff in the score at the same time. The update also includes more instruments, more templates, and other improvements and fixes.
