I, like all people who enjoy musescore, was very excited when MS4 was finally released. upon downloading the new software, i tried the playback engine and was surprised that the engine for some reason ignores lots of the notes in the score, and as a result the playback sounds very disjointed.
I thought this might be because the original file was in MS3 and a new score shouldn't face the same problems, so today i began composing a new piece but to my surprise the same playback issues happened (the two scores were piano solos).
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Diagnosis
I ran mscore in the terminal and observed the output. It logged something along the lines of "Error: MS Basic soundfont not found" (cannot recall exact wording). Turns out that the /usr/share/mscore-4.1 folder was missing a sound/ directory which usually should contain the soundfont required to play back any notes.
Just wanted to post this solution here; it seems like something might have gone wrong on one of the MuseScore updates, since the playback did work previously. Maybe an update deleted the sound directory?
I don't think we really need to update the archwiki because the problem will be resolved pretty soon. Whenever the packager has time to re-compile it.
I posted the solution here and on the musescore forums thought, as a temporary workaround. Anybody who has the problem and googles it should be able to find the posts.
MuseScore is a music notation program for Windows, macOS, and Linux supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. It is released as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MuseScore is accompanied by a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app, and an online score-sharing platform.
MuseScore was created as a fork of the MusE sequencer's codebase. In 2002, Werner Schweer, one of the MusE developers, decided to remove notation support from MusE and create a stand-alone notation program from the codebase.[10][11]
Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009. By October 2009, MuseScore had been downloaded more than one thousand times per day. By the fourth quarter of 2010, MuseScore was being downloaded 80,000 times per month.[13][14]
At the end of 2013, the project moved from SourceForge to GitHub, and continuous download statistics have not been publicly available since then, but in March 2015 a press release stated that MuseScore had been downloaded over eight million times,[15] and in December 2016 the project stated that version 2.0.3 had been downloaded 1.9 million times in the nine months since its release.[16]
In 2017, the MuseScore company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team.[18] In April 2021, it was announced that a parent company, Muse Group, would be formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar, and other acquired properties (including Audacity).[19] From 2021 to June 2022, the MuseScore company relocated its headquarters to Cyprus with Muse Group.[20]
MuseScore's main purpose is the creation of high-quality engraved musical scores in a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" environment.[21] It supports unlimited staves, linked parts and part extraction, tablature, MIDI input and output, percussion notation, cross-staff beaming, automatic transposition, lyrics (multiple verses), fretboard diagrams, and in general everything commonly used in sheet music.[22][23] Style options to change the appearance and layout are available,[24] and style sheets can be saved and applied to other scores. There are pre-defined templates for many types of ensembles. Functionality can be extended by making use of the many freely available plugins.[22][23][25][26]
MuseScore can also play back scores through the built-in sequencer and SoundFont sample library.[24] Multiple SoundFonts can be loaded into MuseScore's synthesizer. It includes a mixer to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of individual parts, and chorus, reverb and other effects are supported during playback.[27] MIDI output to external devices and software synthesizers is also possible.[28]
MuseScore's native file formats are .mscx, which is XML data containing the score, and .mscz, a zip archive containing the .mscx and other data. The .mscz format is used as the default format, as it occupies less space and supports additional data, such as images.[29]
MuseScore also can import and export both compressed (.mxl) and uncompressed (.xml) MusicXML files, which allows a score to be edited in other music notation programs (including Sibelius and Finale). The latest edition of MuseScore uses MusicXML 4.0.[30] It can also import and export MIDI (.mid, .midi, and .kar), which is supported by many other programs (such as Synthesia), although since MIDI is not designed for sheet music, some information may be lost.
MuseScore can also import certain other music software's native formats, including Band-in-a-Box (.mgu and .sgu), Bagpipe Music Writer (.bww), Guitar Pro (.gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, and .gpx), Capella (must be version 2000 (3.0) or later; .cap and .capx) and Overture formats. It can also import MuseData (.md), which has been superseded by MusicXML.
Since May 2014 MuseScore has mobile apps available for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire which tie into the MuseScore score sharing site. The app can play scores, and allows changing of transposition and part extraction, but does not allow creating or editing scores.[25]
MuseScore also runs as a portable application.[31] It can be installed onto a regular hard disk drive or stored on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive or flash card, so that it can be run on any compatible Windows computer system.
In Musescore 3.6, a new notation font named Leland was introduced to the software, created by Martin Keary and Simon Smith. Its name is a reference to Leland Smith, the creator of a now-defunct notation program called SCORE.[32] The same update also introduced a new typeface Edwin, influenced by the font New Century Schoolbook.[33]
In Musescore 4.0, support was added for VST3 plugins on Windows and macOS, both instruments and effects. Along with this, the Muse Group released a free orchestral plugin called MuseSounds designed to provide a more realistic playback of notation.[34][35]
MuseScore is free and open-source and is written mainly in C++, with the graphical user interface making use of the cross-platform Qt toolkit. Originally founded by Werner Schweer, Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte, the project is now headed by Martin Keary (Lead Designer) and Vasily Pereverzev (Lead Developer) with a wider community also contributing.[65] Google Summer of Code has sponsored students to help develop MuseScore in 2013, 2014 and 2016 to 2021.[66] The development of MuseScore takes place on GitHub.[67]
MuseScore accumulated generally favorable reviews years after it was first launched, praising the software's relative ease of use and being a versatile free competitor to other scorewriters. Online computer magazine PC World rated it 3.5 out of 5 stars. It praised the precise control over the size and spacing of every object and the abilities to define keyboard shortcuts and to drag and drop modifiers, changing how they are played, but criticized the mouse methodology as occasionally unintuitive for not fully exploring the drag-and-drop potential.[69] Technology news website Softpedia rated it 4.5 out of 5 stars, calling the design "well-organized" and "comprehensive" and lauding the application's customizability, ability to upload user sheet music, and support for many file formats.[70] In its 2019 review that also scored the software 4.5 stars out of 5, TopTenReviews praised the ability to create tablature and percussion sheet music alongside traditional notation, support for hundreds of instruments, and being able to share music and interact with other composers online.[71] Reviewing MuseScore 4.0, British magazine Music Teacher welcomed this version's improved engraving, new cloud storage, and focus on accessibility, such as allowing users to export their compositions in braille, an expanded color scheme, and keyboard navigation. It also noted the playback feature's support for VSTs, including the application's own Muse Sounds, which the magazine considered a boon to teachers who have spent years dealing with the inconveniences of exporting their compositions.[72]
MuseScore reported over 7,000 downloads per day in 2016.[16] Many Linux distributions also include MuseScore in their software libraries,[31] such as in the Ubuntu Software Center. The total number of downloads is 12.1 million (as of December 2022).[34][73]
Many educational institutions also make use of MuseScore, including Drew University and the Ionian University.[74] The Board of Education of La Seigneurie des Milles-les in Canada has also made MuseScore available on 10,000 computers across schools in the Milles-les region in Qubec.[75]
In 2011, MuseScore launched a Kickstarter campaign to create high-quality, freely available digital score and audio versions of the Goldberg Variations. The process influenced the development of MuseScore 2, with notation improvements needed in order to create a high-quality engraving of the variations.[76] With the fundraising goal met, MuseScore developers, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, and crowd-sourced reviewers collaborated to create an engraved score and also record a new album, both of which were released under a Creative Commons Zero license (without copyright), meaning they can be downloaded and shared freely.[76] In 2012, at the end of the online public review process, the final engraved score was released for free on MuseScore.com,[77] and printed and bound by GRIN in Germany. Kimiko Ishizaka's recording was released for free on BandCamp.[76][78][79]
In 2013, a second successful Kickstarter funded the creation of a new edition of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Once again, the score underwent public review on MuseScore.com,[80] and was recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka,[81][82] with both score and recordings released into the public domain in 2015.[83] 2351a5e196
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