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

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a candid, in-depth look at hard UX redesign work and the limits of MIDI for notation.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tantacrul

Topic

music notation software design

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If anyone is yet to see it, Tantacrul (on youtube) is now deeply involved with MuseScore (UX lead or similar?); he put out an awesome vid on the design of MS4 at the beginning of the year: [VIDEO] His video on how Sibelius' UX is …

• The recent video on MuseScore 4 has a fascinating (though simplified) perspective on how limiting MIDI is: [VIDEO] MIDI's issues in a notation context are twofold: non-standardization of controls for e.g. choosing articulations for string instruments, and an inability to communicate future information if known …

• That's very much it. You could also make an analogy to the arts of typography and typesetting. It's of the same importance to a composer or musician that the notation is legible and beautiful, as it is to a graphic designer or reader that type …