MuseScore 2.1

What's new in this version:

Top new features:

New note input modes:
- Rhythmic input: enter rhythm first, pitches later. Saves having to swap back and forth between computer and MIDI keyboard.
- Semi-real-time MIDI input - a limited form of real-time input (play the piece on a MIDI keyboard and notation is generated automatically). In semi-real-time, you can't enter triplets or notes shorter than your chosen duration, but it is more reliable than fully real-time entry.
- Real-time (automatic)—play along with metronome
- Real-time (manual)—play while tapping a key/pedal to set tempo
- Much better support for SFZ sample libraries in Zerberus synthesizer (see below)
- New "Swap" command in addition to "Copy, Cut, Paste"
- New "Regroup Rhythms" command under Layout menu to split and tie notes and rests according to time signature rules
- Mid-staff instrument changes now also change transposition
- More options to select similar notes in Select / More...
- Instrument names editable by double-click
- "Instrument Change" and "Fingering" text available from Add/Text main menu and allow keyboard shortcuts
- Allow keyboard shortcuts to toggle "Hide Empty Staves" and for up bow and down bow symbols
- Find a numerical rehearsal mark using Ctrl-F with "R#"
- Previous and next buttons added to the Staff Properties dialog
- Pause property for caesura in Inspector
- Bracket property for accidentals in Inspector
- "Also change shorter notes" option when adjusting beaming rules for time signature
- Load multiple SFZ at once in Zerberus
- Option to add page/section breaks when creating album
- Album Manager has default "Untitled" album on first use
- Revision log field added to Save Online dialog when updating already uploaded score
- Settings for MP3 bitrate
- New instruments: percussion, Bb sousaphone, guitar (treble clef), Irish tenor banjo, nyckelharpa, sackbuts, and different types of marimbas (see below)
- New templates: brass band, small concert band, marching bands, battery and pit percussion, bluegrass band (see below)
- Allow fingerings in tablature staves
- Improved support for historical tablature notation (see below)
- New Shift-Q and Shift-W commands to decrease/increase duration to next nearest dotted or undotted value
- Upload audio rendition to musescore.com together with score

UI improvements:
- Color piano keys when MIDI keys are pressed
- Add toolbar toggles to View menu
- Add a way to select/deselect all in Selection Filter
- Re-pitch button moved into new note input button menu in toolbar
- Drag to reorder score tabs
- Add hint at the download page when loading pre 0.9.6 scores
- Change "note heads" to "noteheads"
- Confirmation before deletion of a palette
- Add Unicode accidentals to "Common Symbols" section of Special Characters
- Add "delete measure" to staff context menu
- Update rest icon to show other durations than quarter rest
- Show "Slur" or "Tie" instead of "Slur/Tie" in inspector and right click menu
- Enable inspector for all breath/caesura types
- Add repeat barlines to Repeats palette
- Filter -> Search in Preferences / Shortcuts
- Remove Text Tool from right click menu in toolbar
- Navigator cannot display 3-figure page numbers
- Mismatch between Bend properties and Tremolo bar properties
- Preferences / General / Animations doesn't work
- Change "New" button in lower left of Score Properties window to + button
- Revision is not shown in Score Properties
- Show correct API level in Score Properties
- Change Page Settings "Landscape" checkbox into "Portrait/Landscape" radio buttons
- Window title changes after save score
- TAB: Improvement of cursor position
- Save/restore window sizes and positions
- Utility functions for save/restore geometry
- Ask for confirmation before deleting a workspace
- PulseAudio QGroupBox min height
- Score does not display fully in Navigator if latter set to ON when score loads
- Navigator rectangle selection is lost
- Title bar of Selection Filter says only "Selection"
- Follow-up to fix #97131, correcting title case in menu for Split Measure
- Add colons to Inspector texts and various text fixes and improvements
- Fix some label texts in Inspector to match the majority
- System Text should be labeled as "System Text"
- Tooltip explaining "New All" button in Parts dialog
- Better tooltip explaining BPM
- Better tooltips for note grouping's "Reset" button and "Add" button in Master Palette / Time Signatures
- Vertical spacers in layout and better tooltip for "Add" button in Master Palette / Key Signatures
- Show subtitles on all pages of New Score Wizard
- Dragging mouse up/down moves Zita1 controls the wrong way
- Order recorders by pitch range
- Ambitus gets reported an octave too high in Inspector, status bar, and screen reader
- Disable "Scale to frame size" in Inspector for images not in a Frame
- Rename "Repeat count" to "Play count" in Measure Properties dialog
- Rename "Staff distance:" to "Stem distance:" in General Style / Articulations, Ornaments
- Ctrl+F "Find" saves searched values
- Hide gray line above figured bass when View / Show Unprintable is unchecked
- Allow long note groups to scroll or pan in Create Time Signature dialog
- Reposition scoreview when cursor moves
- Part export automatic numeration of same instruments
- Label fields for width and height of toolbar icons in Preferences / General
- Pinch/spread to zoom uses wrong center point
- Updated Staff Properties Dialog
- Volume slider notches according to range in Synthesizer
- Leftmost pixel column in Synthesizer meter does not update when user adjusts volume while playing
- Do not scale webview in start center
- Tweak piano keyboard to be resizable with touchpad (and probably touchscreens)
- Better default size on startup
- Unnecessary "MuseScore: " prepended to most window titles and wrong title of Split Staff dialog
- More appropriate column widths and sortable columns in Edit Drumset dialog
- Metronome gain and volume slider left double click defaults to silence

Crashes and corruptions fixed:
- Crash when creating full measure rests on multimeasure rests
- CRASH album when remove score w/ TBox
- Crash in note entry mode in drumset
- CRASH if try changing duration of Repeat Measure
- Fix potential crash during layout or measure
- Fix potential crash in lyric separator layout
- Fix potential crash in slur layout
- Use fallback font rather than crash
- Crash after moving to kneed beams in grace notes
- Crash when deleting a part
- Crash on play caused by channel mismatch
- Crash by opening the Instruments dialog box after parts deletion and undo
- Select note values onto multimeasure rests in parts leads to corruption and crash
- Fix crash when undoing transposition after changing spatium
- Reducing actual duration of measure with text elements will corrupt measure
- Undo after creation of parts with linked staves causes corruption
- Create a pickup measure in parts with two instruments at least causes a crash
- Repeatedly deleting displaced beams causes crash
- Select a note/rest before change the measure duration leads to corruption/crash
- Copy-paste multimeasure rests containing a full measure, or not after cuting, causes corruption/crash
- Remove the time signature in the presence of another one in a score with parts leads to corruption/crash
- Crash when adding line/section/page breaks by double-clicking on a multimeasure rest
- Crash when opening bad MIDI file
- [GP6] Crash when opening a file containing 2Mrcs instrument
- [GP6] Crash when importing gpx ottava
- Crash when importing incorrect MIDI file
- MusicXML import crash on overlapping wavy lines
- Crash by removing a score with frames when the last measure contains a pedal line/volta line
- Copy-paste a multimeasure rest on another one causes corruption after undo
- Protect against a couple of crashes
- Crash by changing time signature in a measure in Continuous view when a glissando extends from the previous measure
- Introduce a time signature in a measure which the Actual duration is exactly identical leads to corruption/crash
- Cut a time signature before a glissando and toggle in another View causes a crash
- [GP6] Crash on a file involving arpeggios, ties and capo Feature
- Cut a measure with tuplet causes crash
- Crash when changing 'spanned staves' from 2 to 1 in the Inspector
- CRASH on close score after deleting all segment of a spanner
- Crash when loading palette with small width/height grid
- Undoing a multimeasure rest range selection in parts causes a crash
- Crash when opening score with a duplicate Glissando
- Hang/crash by extending a glissando on a note with another one in the second staff
- Remove a time signature in a part causes corruption in the other parts and main score
- Font name containing a ampersand will corrupt file
- Score corruption when creating tremolos in Score+Parts
- File / Save Selection… leads to corrupt score if selection is not 4/4 and does not start with time signature
- Crash on ctrl+home of empty score
- Corruption on paste
- Splitting irregular measures produce extra rests
- [MusicXML import] Crash by importing a file with breath mark after grace note
- Fix crash when converting to PDF on the command line
- Freeze when opening file with very large glissando
- Crash when undo after save in a score with parts and courtesy key signature

Audio playback improvements:
- SFZ synth greatly improved (see Zerberus)
- Synthesizer: zita1 reverb: Eq2 not working
- Metronome plays eighth notes if pickup measure has actual duration of 1/8
- midiAction on wrong midi channel
- MidiAction program change - doesn't change on note
- Instrument doesn't switch back after midiAction
- Fixed formula to calculate staff given a note in presence of staffMove and added test case testTrillCrossStaff
- Loop out on end repeat goes to repeat start and not loop in
- No sound feedback in repitch mode when using MIDI or Piano Keyboard
- Section break pause is not respected in a file with parts after save/open cycle
- Export to audio does not respect Synthesizer settings unless saved to score
- Sample based Volume for envelopes and modlfo
- Calculate envelope for first point of new envelope right, fix divison by zero in amp increment calculation
- FluidSynth optimizations
- Fix clicking sound in playback due to filter init
- Update FluidR3Mono to 2.312

Zerberus:
- Stop note on pedal released when sustained during attack
- Support for control structure, for details on set_cc see https://musescore.org/en/node/116906#comment-530701
- Support #include, change #define behavior, support
- Let zerberus support gain_cc/gain_oncc
- Add support for rt_decay
- On_hiccN/on_loccN support for zerberus
- Zerberus: fix into loop (forgot offset because of interpolation), fix loop_sustain and simplify codeFix #124656: mtests for Zerberus
- Zerberus: check for seq range in onCC
- Add block comments to zerberus
- Zerberus: fix control init
- Zerberus: fix wrong position of seq zones
- Support for random playback
- Round robin not working
- Add sfz1 envelope support to zerberus (ampeg_* opcodes)
- Add loop support to zerberus
- Do not consider ALSA driver changes if ALSA is not used

Score layout and style:
- Ledger lines do not change color with staff
- Stack ledgerline below stem, not just below note
- Implement space management for formatted text
- Tied enharmonics incorrectly notated
- Tremolo bar appears above wrong staff
- Optimize rendering for Mi, Min, etc
- Do Shape notes(quarter and half) misaligned with stem (Emmentaler)
- Cross-staff glissando missing when creating piano part
- Scaling of fretboard chord diagrams
- Allow 0sp max. slope for tuplet bracket
- Lyrics dash and melisma should have same color as preceding syllable
- Ledger lines don't appear for notes beyond staff in drum palette
- Slurs lost on exchange voices and add test for exchange voices
- Changing text background color does not work for circular frames
- Multimeasure rests should account for fermatas
- Inconsistency in part name in staff properties between extracted part and the score
- No initial clef
- Bad layout on undo with hbox
- Wandering hairpins due to miscalculation of barline widths
- Hairpin drift due to bad tie calculation
- Drift on spatium change
- Layout jump due to courtesy key signature barline
- Make dynamics text style italic
- Staff texts after the first are ignored in multimeasure rests
- Tie length ending on mirrored note too short

Historical tablature:
- Support for bass strings for lute tablature
- Mixing mensural value symbols and beaming in historic tablatures
- More French styles for frets and duration symbols
- Font design improvement
- New historical English fret style
- Changes to tablature flag automatism, tuplets and graces (now default hidden)

Import and export:

Guitar Pro:
- Repeat marks not working in gp3 and gp4
- Imports from *.gpx files play wrong drums sounds
- [GP6] Corruption when the gp file contains incomplete measures

MIDI:
- MIDI import truncated
- XML escape lyrics in MIDI import
- Import MIDI track volume
- Change some MIDI XF chord symbol spellings
- More precise tempo export in MIDI
- Initial key signature overwritten in exported MIDI with repeats

SVG:
- SVG export crashes MuseScore with files containing horizontal frames
- SVG export crashes MuseScore in Continuous View
- SVG export leaves space between stems and heads
- Export an SVG file per page
- SVG Export: Tablature Note matrix needs rounding
- [SVG export] Note head and stem apart on downstem notes
- Export to SVG from Continuous view results in a Crash

MusicXML:
- [MusicXML] Title converted to copyright on import if positioned at bottom of page
- [MusicXML] crash when divisions is defined in second measure but used in first measure
- Fix invalid MusicXML export when too many overlapping trills, ottavas or brackets are present
- [MusicXML Export] invalid MusicXML when too many overlapping hairpins are present
- [MusicXML] import of transposing score with chromatic tag only
- Order of ending/repeat in MusicXML
- Time signature visibility in MusicXML import/export
- Infinite loop with an XML
- Default to 4/4
- [MusicXML import] sound element's tempo attribute ignored
- Changed other dynamic to export text instead of dynTypeName
- [MusicXML import] add instrument-sound to MIDI mapping
- Export 7sus chord to MusicXML fails Reimport

Other:
- Freeze when importing Capella file with staff without time signature (workaround)
- [Ove Import] Import of chordnames is wrong
- [BIAB] Melody is not imported
- [Capella Import] Corrupt file when importing capx file with pickup measure
- Build system and packaging:
- Makefile: Use POSIX way of finding CPU count
- Simplify CPU count
- Fix debug build for XCode with CMake>=3.5.0.
- Update README.md (Add link for mtest/README.md)
- Allow BUILD_PCH to be set to on for Windows
- Build Mac OS X nightlies on Travis-CI
- Fix call to obsolete QChar::toAscii
- Add option to use system FreeType
- Select Item in Debugger with enter
- Fix incorrect version in Linux desktop entry file
- Build x86 AppImages on Ubuntu 12.04
- Change paths in bottled dylib
- Quotes needed around ENV variable in IF
- Sign macOS package on Travis-CI
- Add Makefile option for Jack, Portaudio, PulseAudio
- Make QWebkit and StartCenter webview optional
- [Travis] add a way to insert musescore.com keys
- Create APPX for Windows Store

Templates and instruments:
- Marching perc. improvements in instruments.xml, new template
- Add marching band and percussion templates
- Add brass band, small concert band, small marching templates
- Add support for Croatian instruments (Tambura)
- Add sackbuts to instruments.xml
- Rename "Baroque Flute" to "Traverso"
- Added european bb sousaphone instrument
- General "Percussion" staff
- Some additions/corrections to instruments.xml
- Add Uke with low G and fix wrong string for Bar. Uke
- Make piccolo flute and all string basses transposing instruments with standard clef, instead of non-transposing instruments with octave clefs
- Add "Guitar (Treble Clef)" to instruments.xml
- Adjust Marimba range
- Add slap and pop channels to plucked basses
- Fix Dizi channel
- Add Irish Tenor Banjo, incl. Tablature
- Change My First Score to Untitled
- Fix typo in chords_jazz.xml
- Add nyckelharpa

Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes:
- High CPU usage with navigator on
- Batch conversion from the command line; speedup vtest by using this
- Add option to force loading score in converter mode
- Atomic update sfPath->mySoundfontsPath
- Let cmdDoubleDuration() and cmdHalfDuration() reach more values
- Avoid unicode flats and sharps in filenames
- Arrow up/down and Delete keys stop working in other open scores after piano roll editor is opened in another
- Change enharmonic doesn't work as expected with linked staves also selected
- Non-Reduced ratio tuplets of full measure duration not copy-pastable
- Fix selection of measure after R or paste command
- Text in textframe disappears with Ctrl-C
- Selection lost on enharmonic change with accidentals
- Appended measures in different time signature
- Fix deleting first measure of part with key sig
- Print: fix page size/orientation settings
- In continuous mode only first page of score gets printed
- Read-only access to std::vector, QVector and QList properties for qml
- OSC command /Tempo processes the parameter value wrong
- Cannot add courtesy accidentals for a tied note
- Note input toolbar not accessible via tab
- Fix continuous panel flicker at beginning of system
- Add -D option to specify monitor DPI
- Change copyright in About Box to 2017
- Remove default shortcut F2 for transpose up/down
- PDF export of parts doesn't have correct title metadata
- Don't mark score dirty on Save Online when only updating it
- Replace Public Domain mark with Creative Commons Zero in Save Online
- Fix typo Execure > Execute named plugin (command line)
- Cannot enter special characters into tempo change
- Multibyte chars are not deleted correctly in text
- Image capture "save as" field is blank
- Select / More... selects wrong voice dots
- Select / More... selects tuplets in all voices
- Inability to select fingerings in different voices
- Inability to select notes in same voice, staff...
- Selecting flags by voice doesn't work
- Selecting accidentals by voice doesn't work
- Inability to select ties in a range selection if the last measure is also selected
- Range select -> Notes button in Inspector includes grace notes in list selection, disabling Inspector
- Slurs disappear, in the most cases, after editing and Escape if the bordering note
- Text::drop when not already in edit mode needs to handle Supplementary Unicode
- Fix drum note entry, avoid to be blocked in chord mode when mixing drum/melodic
- Change modifier key from Ctrl to Shift, to create chord with on-screen piano keyboard
- Don't autosave unchanged "imported" 1.x scores
- Don't look for SoundFonts in hidden directories
- Allow saving audio to QIODevice
- Disable change anchor for Instrument Change text
- Restrict all text drag to page boundaries
- Expose default synthesizer state
- Expose the application QNetworkAccessManager
- Applying shortcut beam designations to multiple notes causes error
- Master palette locks up during search if text string does not match any symbol
- Add access to TimeSig for plugins
- Add ability to run plugin before converting in json job
- No beam for stemless slash notation
- Fix ornamentDownPrall composed glyph definition
- Full measure rest displaced after time signature Change
- Add minimal support for triple dots

Mac-specific changes:
- [Mac OS X] Full screen shortcut does not work to enter full screen, only to exit
- Add alternative full screen shortcut Ctrl+Cmd+F
- Make MuseScore unexecutable on Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier
- Color Picker window gets larger every time it's used
- Fix rendering of non-square icons on high-dpi displays (done earlier in version 2.0.3.1)
- Store QColor as string in preferences file (done earlier in version 2.0.3.1)

Languages:
- Fix/update language codes of qt_*.ts files
- Simplify texts in various dialogs, for translators' benefit
- Don't translate filename extensions
- Enable translation for paper format
- Wrong translation on English (AU)
- Separate Flemish from Dutch Qt translation
- Swap directional icons for RTL languages
- Update Qt's Arab translations
- Korean input method on Windows doesn't work with Shift
- No feedback while typing Korean
- Supplemental Unicode select, insert, paste
- ScoreView text edit ignore Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Caps for Win Japanese IME and fix InputMethod position when editing Chinese/Japanese text, do not rely on QInputMethod::locale() for CJK test

New languages:
- Welsh
- Arabic (Sudan)
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Arabic (Algeria)
- Malayalam
- Scottish Gaelic