When MuseScore 4 launched, it received criticism for changing keyboard shortcuts and moving palettes (the left sidebar of musical symbols). retains the classic drag-and-drop palette system. Users with muscle memory built over a decade can fly through engraving without looking at the menus.

MuseScore 4’s new MuseSounds are beautiful but notoriously quiet or dynamically inconsistent with third-party soundfonts. If you rely on a specific FluidR3_GM.sf2 soundfont or a custom orchestra bank, 2.3.2 plays them perfectly predictably.

– Better support for dynamics, articulations, and formatting from other notation software.