Musescore 4 tester
I would love to be a tester for Musescore 4. I just saw the changes and would like to give it a whirl. I've done many music projects with DAW. I'm excited with what I see you are doing.
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I was going to tell you to download the latest development build for the master branch and test all you want but there are no master builds listed. I'll see what's going on and someone will post an explanation here.
In reply to I was going to tell you to… by mike320
There are some available, for Linux. But indeed not for macOS and Windows
I don't think you've seen any changes as much as one of the proposals of intention and direction. But you are free to download a master build to play with it.
Just be aware that most of the UI changes are still locked away behind compile options because the new UI still lacks a lot of functionality and that most changes so far are internal modularization of the code and internal structural preparation work.
Also note that the current master nightlies have not even yet reached the Alpha stability. So unless you're up for a lot of non-working things and possibly developing yourself, you're a bit early in the development stage to start useful user testing.
The development builds should be back some time tomorrow at https://musescore.org/en/download#Development-builds. You will want to download the master branch.
In reply to The development builds… by mike320
I downloaded the Oct 9 revision:
1) did not fix chord symbols playing the chord
2) End repeat still does not work
3) When trying to upload audio the audio uploaded was not what my computer was playing (New problem)
Anyone have any idea when it might get better?
In reply to I downloaded the Oct 9… by Richard G Perritt Sr
the Oct 9 revision Be more specific, what operating system, Help > About. Do you mean 3.5.1? This thread here is is about (development builds of) MuseScore 4!
But yes, 3.5.1 has a bug that causes pre-3.5 scores to still play back chord symbols. Will get fixed in 3.5.2.
In reply to the Oct 9 revision Be more… by Jojo-Schmitz
Musescore 4, whether alpha or beta. I am interested in helping musescore test the new features. Besides, I'm a musical tech freak.
In reply to the Oct 9 revision Be more… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was wanting to play with the DAW that is suppose to be in Musescore 4. The nightly build is still 3.6
In reply to the Oct 9 revision Be more… by Jojo-Schmitz
I just saw your email about 4 only in Linux. Is there a particular distro of Linux I should use?
In reply to the Oct 9 revision Be more… by Jojo-Schmitz
1) Typical guitar notation is to show the fretboard diagram as well as the chord name. If the guitar is playing an arpeggio the composer would not want the full chord to play on the first note. For me, the chord name is information, and any musical notes should be played by notation.
2) If you are composing a song with a second verse, (etc) you wand an end repeat so you can go back to the start of the first verse. If you start in page view this works, but if you switch to continuous view, which is how I score my songs the end repeat is not used and the song plays right through it. If you go back to page view the end repeat no longer works. I had seen some forum entries saying this problem would be solved with this revision. (Oct 9) and that it would be a week or so before auto updates would start in case a terrible mistake had been made. I guess I should have waited since I thought a terrible mistake had been made (Thus 3)
3) Yes I successfully uploaded the mp3 for the song with the correct soundfont sound. (unfortunately for me, in the process of deleting the score with the improper sounds I deleted a bunch of scores as well. My fault. I guess when the save online dialogue comes up if you tick only upload score audio, a new score is produced. This is okay, but I got confused on the my scores page and ticked the top box and did not notice that it then activated all my scores. I clicked the command box "delete", before I realized that all scores were ticked. I lost a number of scores before I could re-tick the box and stop the process. My Bad... but the action page to be honest is not extremely clear.)
In reply to 1) Typical guitar notation… by Richard G Perritt Sr
You are in the wrong thread, this here ia about testing development versions of MuseScore 4, while you seem to be talking about 3.5.1
1. If you don't want chord symbols to play, disable this. This has not changed in 3.5.1 and it won't change.
2. This repeats issue in Continuous view is fixed in 3.5.1.
In reply to You are in the wrong thread,… by Jojo-Schmitz
No, I'm talking about Musescore 4. I want to test 4. Where can I download the latest build.
In reply to No, I'm talking about… by tinkjt
Jojo was talking to Richard G Perritt Sr whose post is totally unrelated to testing version 4. I talked to the person who maintains the testing releases and he's working on getting them back on line. Once they are fixed they will be available at https://musescore.org/en/download#Development-builds. I checked out the windows builds and there are none at this time. If you use Linux then there are testable builds at http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/linux/4x/nightly/. You will want to click on Last Modified a couple of times to put the latest build at the top of the list. When the other platforms are updated people will want to look under the 4.x then Nightly directory to find version 4 builds that can be tested. I suspect the Testing folder will be for alpha and beta builds when the time comes.
The nightly builds for both the current version which will be 3.6 and the future version 4.0 are now being generated and nicely displayed at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/. My understanding is that the version 4 UI is now being used for those builds but you can still expect quite a few bugs.
In reply to The nightly builds for both… by mike320
This isn't a bug but I think moving away from the Musescore 3 layout may be a bad idea. I like 3 because I can do my work without a lot of mouse clicks. With 4 I have to click on note input-4,8,16-then enter the note. On 3 I just pick the note and enter it on the score. It's a lot more efficient.
In reply to This isn't a bug but I think… by tinkjt
As you find things to comment on while testing version 4 it's best to start new threads in the Development and Technology Preview forum. That way areas you find for improvement won't get lost in this obscure thread.
In reply to This isn't a bug but I think… by tinkjt
My guess is this simply isn't completely implemented yet. Realistically, it's not ready for testing, kind of like asking to test drive a car still on the assembly line.