Vivaldi (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

User interface:
- Continuous view: scroll horizontally through your score with no line or page breaks
- Start Center: start-up window which lets you easily pick up your work in progress or create new scores—and includes old MuseScore Connect, which puts a MuseScore composer in the spotlight and links to the MuseScore music sharing website and social media
- Inspector panel: easily alter parameters (e.g., positioning) of any element
- Piano keyboard: on-screen piano keyboard for note entry
- Customizable palettes and workspaces Basic and Advanced workspaces included by default, or define your own

Usability:
- Selection filter: choose which types of elements to select for copy and paste operations
- Re-pitch mode: replace pitches without changing rhythms
- Image capture mode: save rectangular selections as graphics
- Explode/Implode: separate chords onto multiple staves, or combine multiple staves into chords
- More precise manual adjustments: nudge nearly any element any direction with keyboard or Inspector

Musical notation:
- Tablature support: variety of tab notation styles for guitar, bass, lute, and more
- Fret diagrams: easily create diagrams and set up your own palette of commonly used chords
- Dynamic text styles: changes automatically apply to all elements with that style
- New fonts: three musical fonts to choose from, with matching text fonts
- Flexible chord symbols: enter chord symbols using any common spellings, including support for German and solfege note naming and lower case minor chords
- Slash notation: fill selection with beat slashes, or convert notated rhythms to slashes on, above, or below staff
- Layout improvements: automatic correct positioning and spacing for multi-voice chords and rests, dots, accidentals, ties, articulations, hairpins, pedal markings, voltas, etc.
- More supported notations: pedal change markings, grace notes after (trill endings), falls/doits/scoops/plops/bends, bagpipe embellishments, figured bass, ambitus, early music notations, more flexible time signatures, and a huge set of additional music symbols from Steinberg's new open source Bravura music font

Import/Export:
- Guitar Pro import: supports GP3, GP4, GP5, and GPX formats
- Import PDF: addition of an OMR service to import PDF files
- MusicXML import/export improvements: greater compatibility with other applications, ability to control degree of layout to be preserved
- MIDI import improvements: automatic simplification of rhythms, handling of multiple voices
- MP3 export: in addition to other audio formats WAV, FLAC and OGG
- Save online: improved integration with musescore.com for online publishing

Playback:
- New SoundFont: MuseScore's own more realistic Fluid R3
- Mid-score instrument changes: play a different instrument on the same staff
- Flexible swing style: swing eighth note or sixteenth note, set swing ratio
- Improved JACK support: for interoperability with other MIDI and audio programs
- Playback of more score markings: crescendo, decrescendo, smart tempo text interpretation, tremolo, mordents, improved repeats and voltas, etc.

Score management:
- Linked parts: changes in score automatically reflect in parts and vice versa
- Albums: combine several scores, e.g. multiple movements, into albums
- Styles: define and apply custom score styles, select default styles for scores and for parts
- Split and join measures: divide measure into shorter ones or combine measures into longer one

Accessibility:
- Keyboard shortcuts: expanded availability of actions and many more shortcuts by default
- Documentation: extended handbook, available in print-friendly HTML and as PDF download
- Translations: into more than 50 languages, which can receive updates via the web
- Screen reader: support for NVDA screen reader (Windows-only) to read the music verbally
- Contextual help: new online help (F1) system aggregating online help resources