MuseScore 4.1 beta is now ready for testing

It will be released in July 2023. Originally, it was scheduled to be released at the end of June (last week), but it was delayed a little, so it will be released around mid-July. According to known information, Musescore 4.1 will be released in July.

That's never been removed

Agreed, I'm really hoping manual velocity adjustments is being worked on right now. The current method of messing around with dynamics until it sounds ok is incredibly tedious and really puts me off creating new scores until the next playback update comes out. Especially when combined with different articulations like staccato etc. The piano sound font has also really suffered without single staff adjustments.

At the same time as implementing the piano roll in the 4.2 or 4.3 version, I would like to implement the MIDI channel setting + the virtual instrument key switch setting. I think that would be perfect. First of all, there's a plan.

There are a number of aspects to this, and I'm still sorting it out, but basically what I see happening is if a note already has a dynamic, if you then add an "expression" from the Text palette, it gets added to the right of the dynamic and the two are automatically aligned together. So, you no longer need to edit the dynamic text itself, or do manual adjustments to positions of things, to show things like "mp dolce". I think there are other improvements to the way dynamics, hairpins, and expression text interact but I haven't experimented (or studied the code) enough yet to say more.

Note this new expression element has to be added from the palette it seems - not with Add / Text or Ctrl+E. Not sure if that's a bug or not, but I'll find out. EDIT - yes it's a bug, and a fix is now in place :-)

There are a handful of systems that seem to have problems opening the style dialog, but so far it doesn't seem anyone has been able to explain what is going on with these systems to make them behave differently. We'd love to get more insight into this from people experiencing the problem so it can hopefully be fixed! See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/13193.

The slight delay in starting playback is specific to Muse Sounds, which takes a moment to start up sometimes. I find it improves if you then restart again. Also seems to work better if you select a measure then hit Esc versus select a note, not sure why. Or you can switch to MS Basic temporarily, or just deliberately start playback a little earlier than where you really want.

For me on Linux, the Muse Hub uninstall/install did not remove any sounds, but I can’t speak for other systems. I can say with some confidence that no version of MuseScore requires Muse Sounds, and hence Muse Hub is not needed on any system.

I don't speak in any official capacity - I'm just one of many volunteer contributors - but I don't recall any statements that the piano roll editor would be returning in 4.1. On the contrary, the public statements I've heard from the core team about the piano editor all point to a major rewrite and significantly enhanced version being designed for much later down the road, like MuseScore 5.

As for VST on Linux, there has been a call out to developers in the open-source community to help with the porting - see https://musescore.org/en/node/349691. So it isn't a matter of a policy decision not to support it - presumably it's just a matter of time before someone volunteers to take up the task. I have helped implement many other features I'd have loved to help with this too. But unfortunately, it seems this work requires much deeper knowledge of system internals than I have experience with. So hopefully someone with more specialized skills can step in.

Muse Hub, however, is definitely on Linux and has been from day one - and same with Muse Sounds (which is the only reason you'd need Muse Hub). You should see it listed on the download page you can access from the main page of this site.