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Published — 16 December 2022 ⏭ Tantacrul

How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!

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MuseScore 4 is a complex music composition app for Mac, PC and Linux. Its predecessor (V3) was enormous and incredibly hard to overhaul. In this video, I take you through that process: how we built the team; how we made design decisions and how we improved its playback & engraving quality. Come experience the pain with me!

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Download MuseScore 4 here
https://musescore.org

Detailed post about our engraving improvements
https://musescore.org/en/node/330793

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Subtitles by Pentameron

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00:00 Introduction
02:56 Background behind MuseScore & our challenges
07:54 Technical & design challenges
12:31 The re-design process
21:21 Overhauling playback
33:22 Overhauling engraving
42:42 The final mad dash...
45:17 Why open source matters
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