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

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! --- Please consider supporting me on Patreon Twitter Discord --- Download MuseScore 4 here Detailed post about our engraving improvements --- Subtitles by Pentameron --- 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