Maestro · What’s new

Maestro 0.9.86 beta

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Finale scores in minor keys: notes now open in the right octave (they used to come in an octave too low). The same goes for exporting to .musx.
Finale scores: in reduced systems the staves sit at Finale's distance, lyrics keep their own size and the title shrinks with the page.
Finale scores: brackets above the notes (such as those marking hemiolas) are imported and drawn, all at the same height within a system.
Page Format: measurements can also be entered in inches or points, and labels are no longer cut off in other languages.
Mouse audition: the speaker (the ear on Mac) appears only while you listen with Ctrl+Space (⌥Space on Mac), no longer as soon as you press Ctrl for a shortcut.
Windows: hovering over the buttons of the top bar and the tool palette shows their name and shortcut next to the icon, as in Finale.

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Maestro 0.9.85 beta

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Scroll View: instrument names stay visible on the left while you scroll the score, with each staff's current clef and key signature (turn them off with View → Always Show Instrument Names).
Simple Entry: Tab and ⇧Tab move to the same measure of the staff below and above, as in Speedy Entry.
Simple Entry: clicking a note with a duration that doesn't fit in the measure still selects it, and → from the last note of a full measure goes straight to the next measure.
Slurs sit a little further from the notes: they no longer brush against noteheads, stems and articulations.

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Maestro 0.9.84 beta

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Scanned scores: before recognition, crooked pages are straightened (up to about 8 degrees) and the shadowed background of photos and photocopies is evened out, so Audiveris can read scans made at an angle too.
Scanned scores: pages lying on their side (turned 90°) or upside down are turned the right way automatically.
Windows: black-and-white scanned PDFs (CCITT, JBIG2) are also straightened before recognition, and opening a born-digital PDF shows the original pages next to the score, as on the Mac.
Windows: Print no longer closes Maestro unexpectedly when the print window opens.

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Maestro 0.9.83 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Delete with Filter, like Finale's "Clear Selected Items": Edit → Delete with Filter… (also from the right-click menu) removes only the checked items from the selected measures or notes, for example just the dynamics or just the chord symbols.
Paste with Filter is now also in the right-click menu, with None and All buttons and a choice for clefs (Always, Never, When the clef changes). Paste and Delete with Filter also cover measure items: key signatures, time signatures, barlines, repeats and jumps, system and page breaks, rehearsal marks and tempo marks such as "Allegro". Both windows now have two tidy columns.
Open a PDF: first and second endings, segno, coda, D.C./D.S./Fine, octave lines and trills, mordents and turns now come through. Separate parts printed one after another become a score with all the instruments, each with its own name, and the tempo, rehearsal marks and texts repeated in every part appear only once.
Jumps written as words no longer overlap: when two consecutive measures end with "Fine", "D.S. al Coda", "To Coda" or similar, the second widens just enough.
Windows: exported PDFs are cleaner, each page contains only its own texts.

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Maestro 0.9.82 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Barlines can be dragged, as in Finale: in Page View, with the Measure or Layout tool, grab a barline inside a system and move it left or right to widen one measure and narrow the next. The measure menu restores the automatic width.
Finale .mus files: lyrics from files saved with Finale 2011 and 2012 now appear, along with page texts (headers, source notes, "edited by"), and the title and composer read as they do in Finale; the music leaves room for texts above the first system.
Staff group barlines: through the whole group, on each staff only (as in choirs) or between staves only (Mensurstrich), from the instruments window or the staff menu; also read and written in MusicXML and Finale .musx files.
Staff names can appear on the first system only, as in choral editions: Document → Layout → Abbreviated Names in Following Systems, or "Name in First System Only" for a single staff; without names the following systems start at the margin.
Windows: the installer now also speaks Japanese, and on Japanese Windows the document types have Japanese names.

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Maestro 0.9.81 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Mac: with the GeneralUser GS sound bank, Maestro no longer quits a couple of seconds after Play.
Japanese: the Tools menu is now called ツール (no longer 楽器, which means musical instruments), and in the new score «Instruments» and «Recently Used» refer to musical instruments; in English that heading is now Instruments.

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Maestro 0.9.80 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Maestro in Japanese (日本語): menus, windows and messages translated. On the Mac, if your system uses a language Maestro doesn't have (Japanese, Chinese…), Maestro now appears in English instead of Italian.
On the welcome screen you choose the language above Guided Tour, with little flags; Maestro offers to restart right away in the new language (asking first to save your changes).
Japanese lyrics: words written in kana split by themselves, one mora per note (さくら → さくら, きょう → きょう), without hyphens; words with kanji are separated with spaces.
Windows: in PDFs, Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Cyrillic text no longer turns into question marks (the system font is embedded, with only the characters used); on screen, Japanese uses the Japanese font even on Chinese or Korean Windows.
Simple Entry: after T the tie shows faintly up to the next note, so you can tell the next note (Enter, or a click at the same pitch) will be tied.

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Maestro 0.9.79 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

On the Mac, Audio Unit plug-ins from other makers (Kontakt, Spitfire, BBC Symphony Orchestra, sfizz…) now open: with 0.9.78 Maestro quit as soon as you chose one. If a plug-in doesn't open, a message says so and the part plays with the sound bank.
MIDI output: a part can play in Vienna Ensemble Pro, in a DAW or on a MIDI port (IAC bus on the Mac, loopMIDI on Windows), with its channel, dynamics and articulations. In the mixer, Sound menu → MIDI Output.
Articulations… redesigned: on the left the list with ✓ on the ones in use, on the right the commands, with the keyswitch note read back as you type (also for libraries where middle C is C4), and a Listen button. Ready-made maps (Spitfire UACC, one channel per articulation, keyswitches in a row, Virtual Playing Orchestra) and maps you can save, combinations such as staccato with mute, note advance and dynamics on controller 1 or 11.
Simple Entry: with → the first note of each measure is no longer skipped and you hear it; a new note no longer pushes music past the barline (in a full measure Maestro tells you).
Speech (VoiceOver and NVDA) in Simple Entry and during playback too (where it starts, where it stops, the end of the piece); with each note you hear dynamics, articulations, slurs, hairpins, chord symbols and text, and entering a measure the changes of clef, key and time.
View menu: Read All Staves, Read Score Information and Go to Measure….

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Maestro 0.9.78 beta

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Orchestral libraries in plug-ins (Spitfire, VSL, Kontakt…): Plug-in Articulations… has 16 articulations (legato, spiccato, accent, marcato, tenuto, trill, sul ponticello, sul tasto, harmonics, col legno, flautando, plus pizzicato, tremolo, staccato and mute), chosen from markings, marks on the note and slurs.
Each articulation can send several keyswitches, controllers and program changes, and play on its own MIDI channel (for example a Kontakt multi with one articulation per channel). Maps you already saved stay the same.
Speech with VoiceOver (Mac) and NVDA (Windows): Speedy Entry and the selection announce notes, rests and position; View → Read Position and Read Measure.
Inspector and Settings from the keyboard: F6 goes to the inspector, Tab moves between fields and every control is read with its label. On Windows, dialogs, the start screen, New Score and the guided tour also work from the keyboard with NVDA.
Speedy Entry with a MIDI keyboard: a number with no keys held enters a rest, as in Finale; * on the numeric keypad adds a tie.

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Maestro 0.9.77 beta

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Simple Entry: the palette has an eraser, as in Finale. A click deletes the note or rest, only the clicked note of a chord, or an element (dynamic, text, chord symbol, slur, hairpin…); choosing a duration takes you back to entering.
With a chord selected, ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ (Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ on Windows) choose the highest or lowest note and then move to the note above or below; also from Notation → Notes.
Layout: the flag of stem-up eighth notes and dynamics at the end of a measure no longer touch the barline (double or final ones too) or the following note.
Score Instruments: on Windows the large name at the top and the settings in two columns, as on the Mac; on the Mac the buttons under the list as on Windows.

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Maestro 0.9.76 beta

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Simple Entry: with the caret after the note, ↑ and ↓ move the faded note (⇧ for an octave) without touching the selected note, and Enter enters it, like Finale's caret; letters enter at the octave closest to it.
Simple Entry: to move the selected note use ⌥↑ ⌥↓ (Alt+↑ Alt+↓ on Windows), or press ← to put the caret on the note and then ↑ ↓.

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Maestro 0.9.75 beta

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Page text: Insert Page Text… and Edit Text… open a window with multi-line text, font, size in points and style, with a preview on the Mac.
Document → Fonts…: text sizes are in points and there is a row for the copyright; in Title and Composer… the composer can take several lines and a preview shows the page as you type.
Document → Layout → Margins of Selected Systems…: a system can be shortened from the left or the right, for examples of a few measures that do not fill the whole line; Finale files keep them.
The manual now covers Score Instruments, the welcome screen and the new instrument picker, in every language.

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Maestro 0.9.74 beta

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Redesigned start screen: recent files in full rows with «Show All», copies of the same piece told apart by file name, templates showing the ensemble name and how many instruments; «Blank» and «New Blank Score» give a single staff in treble clef.
Clearer New Score: all templates are visible on wrapping rows, families and the ensemble show their color, «Create Score» stands out, and a hint appears while the ensemble is still empty.
Score Instruments: volume is set with a slider you can hear while dragging.
On Windows the instrument picker shows the instrument card with the range drawn on the staff, as on the Mac.

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Maestro 0.9.73 beta

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Redesigned instrument picker (Add Instrument, Change Instrument): recently used, all and families with their color on the left, instruments in the middle, and on the right a card with the range drawn on the staff. You can also choose how many to add (3 flutes at once).
Score Instruments is larger and in two columns: the instrument name and summary at the top, then the Name, Instrument and Sound, Notation, Score and Parts, Staves and Brackets groups, all visible without scrolling.
Score Instruments: volume, mute and solo for each instrument, which flows it plays in, Show Part and New Part with the chosen instruments; after Duplicate you can type the name right away.
Each instrument has its own color, from its family or chosen from 11: it shows in the Score Instruments list and matches its channel in the mixer.

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Maestro 0.9.72 beta

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Staves and Instruments → Score Instruments…: all the instruments in one window, like Finale’s Score Manager, on Mac and Windows. On the left the list with sound, transposition and brackets next to the names, reordered by dragging; on the right name, abbreviation, sound, transposition, clef, notation and staff size. Double-click to go to the instrument.
Several instruments selected together (⌘/⇧ on Mac, Ctrl/Shift on Windows) are moved, dragged, duplicated and deleted in one step, with shared size, clef and brackets.
Add Instrument, Change Instrument and Instrument Change use the New Score catalog, with search and families; in the inspector too.
Identical instruments are numbered automatically (Flute 1, Flute 2; duplicating Violin I gives a Violin II) and renumbered when one is deleted.
Piano, harp and organ: name and clef of each staff; add or remove a staff, and join two instruments into one (organ with pedals) or split them. Brackets and sub-brackets with a checkbox.
Notation for the whole instrument (rhythmic slashes, rhythmic notation, tablature), staff lines, and Hide in score for an instrument that is only needed in its part.
Before deleting instruments or staves that contain notes, Maestro asks for confirmation.
A tidier inspector: the section of what is selected opens by itself, the others close with a click on the title and show a summary when closed.
Lyrics: the window opens with the text already written so you can correct it, and double-clicking a syllable opens it there; in old Finale .mus files the hyphens between syllables are back.
Flows: several pieces in one document (the movements of a sonata, the numbers of a collection), each with its own title, measure numbering from 1, on a new system or a new page, and its own instruments. Document → Flows → Flows… gathers them in one window; Print and Export PDF can print a single flow; they come in from MuseScore, MusicXML and Finale and go back to Finale.
Edit → Move to Layer (⌃⌥1…4) moves the selected notes to another layer at the same spot; Move/Copy Layers… moves, copies or swaps layers in the chosen measures, as in Finale.
Document → Key Signature…, as in Finale: preview on the staff, major or minor, from one measure to another or to the end, with the notes transposed or kept at the same pitches.
The Notation and Document menus are shorter, with commands grouped in submenus, so they fit on small screens too; on the Mac the score keys (T, L, H…) appear next to the items.
P puts the courtesy accidental in parentheses, then without parentheses, then removes it.
Virtual drum kit: pads can be reordered by dragging, hidden and renamed for each instrument, and with Play Pads with the Keyboard the computer keys play and write them.
Windows: the colored icon also for files opened before with “Open with”. In Repeat Style… the labels use the Windows font.

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Maestro 0.9.70 beta

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document icons now show the colour of their format: blue for Maestro scores, green for Finale (.musx and .mus), orange for MusicXML, purple for MuseScore and red for MIDI, on Mac and Windows.

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Maestro 0.9.69 beta

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Layout → Fit Measures… (also from the right-click menu on a measure), as in Finale: lock a number of measures per system, put some measures into one system or remove the locks, for the whole piece or from one measure to another.
Document → Layout → System Distance…: the distance between systems for the whole document or only the chosen ones, and the number of systems per page.
In a part, with the Selection tool, ↑ and ↓ move the selected measure to the previous or next system.
A single chord note: clicking a notehead of an already selected chord (or Option/Alt-click) selects just that note; arrows, +/−, N, delete, Copy and Cut act on it alone.
Notation → Add Interval: F2…F8 add a second…an octave above the top note, Shift-F2…Shift-F8 below the bottom one, like Finale's metatools.

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Maestro 0.9.68 beta

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Insert Measures…: several empty measures at once, before or after the selected measure, in all staves; it is also in the Measure tool menu
Simple Entry: with another duration chosen, clicking a note gives it that duration (if it doesn’t fit it continues tied into the next measure); with the same duration it adds to the chord as before
Simple Entry: clicking between two notes inserts the new note there, and the music that follows moves forward

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Maestro 0.9.67 beta

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

File → Open reads PDFs exported from a notation program (MuseScore, Maestro, Finale, Sibelius, LilyPond…): notes, lyrics, chord symbols and dynamics, with the original pages alongside on the Mac; it also works in the Mac App Store version
Import Scanned Score… recognizes PDFs exported from a notation program and reads them directly, without Audiveris
Finale export: systems break and are spaced as in Maestro, chord symbols, dynamics and hairpins in their place, abbreviated names and no placeholder «Copyright»
Finale export: tablature comes across as Finale tablature, with the music font and text fonts chosen in Document → Fonts…; .musx files with tablature reopen with their tuning and strings
New icon for Maestro documents: a staff with a treble clef and two eighth notes

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Maestro 0.9.66 beta

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Insert Page Text… adds free text to the page: directions above a system, section titles and a page header with number and title; they also come in from Finale files
Document → Measure Duration…: a measure in the middle of a piece can be shorter than its time signature, like the pickup of a piece that starts there; Finale and MusicXML files open this way too
Final barline in the middle of the score too, among the structure marks, and «Hide Name» in the staff Inspector
Document → Page Format…: system dividers can be Automatic, Always or Never
More faithful Finale files: lyrics no longer slip on joined syllables («na al»), bold title and multi-line composer as in the file, a single notehead for unisons between two voices
Finale export: hidden staves stay hidden, systems and pages stay as in Maestro, and page texts keep their font
Maestro documents have their own icon: a sheet with a small logo

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Maestro 0.9.65 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

File → Import Scanned Score… recognizes the notes in a PDF or in photos of the pages with Audiveris, a free program that Maestro downloads and installs the first time: notes, lyrics, chord symbols, title and composer
The original scan opens next to the recognized score: the measure you're working on is highlighted on the page, and clicking a measure in the scan selects it in the score (View → Original Scan)
Mac: progress windows (recognition, Convert to MusicXML) have their content centered

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Maestro 0.9.64 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Mac: Maestro opens again on macOS 13 Ventura (since 0.9.31 it quit right away while showing the splash screen)

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Maestro 0.9.63 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Export Finale (.musx) now also brings forced stems, slash and rhythmic notation, measure repeats, octave lines, glissandos, tremolos, arpeggios, pedal, text lines such as “cresc. – – –” and “rit.”, fermatas on rests and appoggiaturas into Finale
Double sharp and double flat in the entry palette, and an Accidental row in the inspector to change the accidental of the selected note
Mac: the Open panel has a Format menu to choose which files to show, as on Windows

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Maestro 0.9.62 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The entry palette has a Rests group, like Finale's Rests palette: one rest for each duration; click a rest to enter rests of that duration, click a note to go back to notes
Manual: the Simple Entry caret and arrow keys, the Rests group and the tool remembered at startup, in all five languages

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Maestro 0.9.61 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Simple Entry as in Finale: after the note you entered, a line and a faded note show where the next one will go; ← puts the cursor on the note so you can change it with letters or numbers
Simple Entry: → after the last note fills the measure with rests and moves to the measure on the right; R turns the selected note into a rest and back, 0 turns rest entry on and off
Maestro reopens scores with the tool you used last (Selection, Simple Entry or Speedy Entry); the very first time it starts with Simple Entry

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Maestro 0.9.60 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

While you enter notes with Speedy Entry or Simple Entry, multimeasure rests open up so every measure can be seen and clicked; an incomplete measure no longer ends up inside a multimeasure rest
Help → Maestro Manual and Keyboard Shortcuts open the manual in German, French or Spanish when Maestro is in that language
On the website, the manual search looks through the text of every section and takes you straight to the section it finds

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Maestro 0.9.59 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Speedy Entry: rests are entered with the 0 key, the rest button in the palette or Enter Rest; leaving a measure unfinished fills the rest of it with rests, as in Finale (can be turned off in Settings)
Document → Check Incomplete Measures…: finds the measures that are shorter (or longer) than the time signature says and offers to fill them with rests
Finale .mus files from 2000–2006: clefs are now correct (they all used to be treble clefs) and braces, brackets and staff group names such as “Piano” are back

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Maestro 0.9.58 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Export to Finale: File → Export Finale (.musx)… saves the score or the part shown as a Finale document, with Maestro's layout, notes, lyrics, articulations, dynamics, chord symbols, repeats, tempo and each instrument's sound
A fuller mixer: right-click to set exact values, solo, copy and paste; its appearance can be customized (channel colors, width, controls shown, light or dark theme) and the meters are stereo
Windows: Maestro no longer quits at startup because of a misread status bar text

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Maestro 0.9.57 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Playback style intensity: Playback → Playback Style → Intensity… from 0 to 200% makes the style more restrained or more marked (accents, phrasing, breathing tempo, fermatas, final ritardando); it is saved with the score

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Maestro 0.9.56 beta

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Playback like a musician: Playback → Playback Style (As Written, Standard, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Jazz) with beat accents, phrase-by-phrase shaping, slurs, grace notes, trills, breaths, fermatas and a final ritardando to suit the style; new scores start with As Written
Small timing variations between notes: in Playback → Playback Style and Settings → Playback, notes can start slightly early or late, like a musician (off by default)
Sustain pedal: Notation → Pedal (Ped. … ✱ or with a line), also in the lines palette; it sounds in playback, comes in from MusicXML, MuseScore and Finale and exports to MusicXML
Pizzicato and mute: «pizz.» plays the strings plucked until «arco», «con sord.» puts the mute on the trumpet
Continuous glissandos: a glissando between two notes, scoops, plops, falls, doits and bends really slide for strings, winds, voices and guitars
Export MIDI with the performance: with Settings → Playback → «The exported MIDI file plays like playback» the file also carries style, expression and continuous glissandos

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Maestro 0.9.55 beta

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Figured bass from Finale files: figures written as lyrics in Finale Numerics or Eisenach (the DotMus scores of the Bach cantatas) come in as real figured bass under the same notes, with stacked figures, accidentals and 4–3 suspensions
Windows: the inspector no longer cuts off labels in German, English, French and Spanish
Mac: the Finder knows Maestro opens .maestro files and offers Maestro for MusicXML, Finale, MuseScore and MIDI files too
New score: the caption under the first-page preview is no longer cut off

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Maestro 0.9.54 beta

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paste with filter, as in Finale: Edit → Paste with Filter… (⇧⌘V, on Windows Ctrl+Shift+V) pastes only what you check; without the notes it carries articulations, dynamics, slurs, lyrics and chord symbols onto the notes already there
Parts with several instruments: Document → Parts → New Part with Several Instruments… creates a part even with instruments that aren't next to each other (soprano, tenor and bass…), to view, print and extract like the others

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Maestro 0.9.53 beta

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Voice 2 like Finale: in Speedy Entry the apostrophe writes a second voice under the cursor note, and again goes back to voice 1
Finale files: voice-2 notes, reduced-size notes and, from older .mus files too, hidden notes and rests now come across
Small notes: Document → Parts → Convert to Small Notes (and the right-click menu) writes them small but they still play
Report a file that doesn't open well: from the Help menu or the message after importing, a message with the file for the people who develop Maestro

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Maestro 0.9.52 beta

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Simple Entry from the keyboard, like Finale's caret: with a note selected, the letters A–G enter the next note at the closest octave and Enter repeats the selected one
When you delete a note, the one before it stays selected, so you can keep entering or correcting from the keyboard
Simple Entry: the dot always goes on the selected note, including notes entered from the keyboard

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Maestro 0.9.51 beta

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Speedy Entry like Finale: the I key turns on Insert mode, which enters the new note before the one under the cursor and pushes the music forward
A note that doesn't fit in the measure carries over, tied, into the next one, in Simple Entry and Speedy Entry, also when lengthening the last note of the measure
Double dot from the keyboard: pressing the dot again makes a double dot, a third time removes it
Hidden notes and rests (H key): gray on screen, not printed and not played; they also come in from Finale, MuseScore and MusicXML files

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Maestro 0.9.50 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Finale files: each system shows the staves Finale showed (only the choir, only the congregation with the organ…), as long as they are silent there
Finale files: hidden time signatures stay hidden, no courtesy time signatures where Finale left them out and no “♩ = 100” if Finale didn't write one
Finale files: the full heading as on the page, the last system across the full width and no almost-empty pages when Finale set systems side by side
Text above the system (Allegro, Più moderato…) no longer touches dynamics written above choir staves

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Maestro 0.9.49 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Finale files: notes spelled enharmonically (D♭ instead of C♯), trills and guitar fretboards above chord symbols (when Finale shows them) now come across
After opening a Finale file, the message also says how many custom lines, drawn symbols and reduced-size notes didn't come across
Hand-made cue notes: Document → Parts → Convert to Cue Notes turns the selected notes small, silent and visible only in the parts

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Maestro 0.9.48 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The metronome clicks the groups in odd time signatures even without a chosen grouping: 5/8 as 3+2, 7/8 as 2+2+3
Windows: in short windows the tool palette on the left shrinks and shows every tool

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Maestro 0.9.47 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Right-click on the score: the menu for the note, measure, chord symbol or slur under the pointer (articulations, dynamics, notehead, beaming, chord symbol, text, key, time signature, clef, copy and paste)
The metronome follows the grouping chosen for the time signature: three uneven clicks in 7/8 as 2+2+3, also in the count-in and when recording
New splash screen, with the large logo and the app version

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Maestro 0.9.46 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Figured bass: Notation → Figured Bass… writes figures under the note («6 4», «#», «4+», slashed figures, extension lines), Tab moves to the next note; exchanged in MusicXML and imported from MuseScore
Tempo marking: Notation → Tempo Marking… writes Adagio, Allegro… or free text with the metronome, which can also be hidden; playback always follows it, and a double click changes it. It can also be chosen in New Score and Settings
On the Welcome screen, a highlighted «Install Updates» item appears when a new version is available
Windows: Templates… → New Template… and New Score… with a score open now use the new procedure, as on the Mac

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Maestro 0.9.45 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The glissando between two notes now plays back (in semitones, or on the white keys for piano and harp) and can also be wavy, from the Lines palette
In the Articulations palette, slides into the note (scoop, plop) and out of it (fall, doit), short or long, smooth or rough, plus shake and bend
Downward arpeggio and the non-arpeggio bracket; acciaccatura and appoggiatura are now also palette buttons, next to the arpeggio
In New Score and Settings → New Scores: key and time signature with a «Shown» checkbox (unchecked: no key signature or no written time signature), and any numerator and denominator for the time signature

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Maestro 0.9.44 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

In Document → Layout → Measures per System… a checkbox to count each multimeasure rest as a single measure instead of all the measures it contains
On the Mac the box where you type a chord symbol is as wide as the chord and the text starts right away, aligned with the chord

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Maestro 0.9.43 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Chord symbols tool in the palette on the left (“C7” icon): click above a note or a beat and type the chord symbol straight away; click above a chord symbol to change it

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Maestro 0.9.42 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Choose the notehead shape: x, circled x, diamond, triangle, inverted triangle, square or slash (Notation → Notehead and the Inspector)
Manual beaming: / breaks or joins the beam as in Finale; Notation → Beaming and the Inspector also offer “No beam” and “Break secondary beams”
Better automatic beaming: eighth notes in 3/8, 5/8 and 7/8 are beamed (3+2, 2+2+3), four eighths are joined by half measure in 4/4 and by whole measure in 2/4 and 3/4
Beam grouping for each time signature (3+3+2 in 8/8, 3+2+2 in 7/8) in the time signature dialog, optionally shown in the numerator
Noteheads, beams and composite time signatures come in from Finale, MuseScore and MusicXML files; exported MusicXML now includes beams

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Maestro 0.9.41 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Finale 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006 .mus files open, including those saved on the Mac
Lyrics come across from every .mus file, including Finale 2007–2012 ones: verses that don't overlap sit on the same line

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Maestro 0.9.40 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Finale 2003 .mus files open, which couldn't be read before
Finale 2000 and 2003 .mus files now bring their lyrics too: the verses of different movements sit on the same line under the staff, and the title and composer are taken from the first page with music

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Maestro 0.9.39 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

On macOS 13 Ventura the getting started tour shows the Later / Skip the Tour button and, in the mixer and inspector steps, points to the right toolbar button
In Dark appearance the field where you type a chord symbol is no longer white on white, on Mac and Windows

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Maestro 0.9.38 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Chord symbols typed right on the score: Chord Symbol… opens a field above the note; Space goes to the next beat, Tab to the next measure, Return finishes, and the text turns red if the chord isn't recognized
Chord symbol style for the whole document (inspector → Document → Chord symbols): standard (Cm7, Cmaj7) or jazz (C−7, CΔ7), however you type them (min7, -7, M7, Δ, ø…); new scores start with standard
On the Mac, Maestro now also runs on macOS 13 Ventura, so also on 2017–2019 Intel Macs

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Maestro 0.9.37 beta

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Note value of the metronome mark: eighth, quarter, half and whole notes, also dotted (♩. = 60), in the inspector, in Tempo… and for new scores (Settings → New Scores and the setup wizard); playback follows the chosen note value
VSCO 2 and other SFZ libraries can be chosen from the sound menu in the playback bar, and the notes you enter or play on the MIDI keyboard already sound with their instruments
Copyright on several lines: in Title and Composer… and in the inspector Return starts a new line, and on the first page the music makes room for the extra lines
Finale 2000 .mus files open: staves, notes, articulations, slurs, dynamics, tempos, repeats, title and credits
If Maestro quits unexpectedly, on the next launch it offers to email the report, on Mac and Windows
Fixed: on the Mac a crash when playing with VSCO 2 with the display asleep or Bluetooth headphones; ⌘E always goes back to page view; in the setup wizard the instrument families no longer all open by themselves

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Maestro 0.9.36 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Download Sounds… (Playback menu and speaker menu): free sound banks to download and use with one click, on Mac and Windows: FluidR3 GM, MS Basic (the MuseScore 4 bank), MuseScore General, the YDP piano and the VSCO 2 orchestra
Compressed .sf3 SoundFonts, MuseScore's format: add and choose them like any other bank, and those in MuseScore's folder show up in the list too; Maestro converts them to .sf2 the first time
Mac: FluidR3 GM is no longer included and the app is 148 MB smaller; it can be downloaded from Download Sounds…, and anyone using it goes back to GeneralUser GS with a notice

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Maestro 0.9.35 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Navigator button in the status bar, next to the page number: one click shows or hides the page thumbnails (it can also go in the toolbar)
Mac: during playback, if you look above the first staff or scroll down to the lower staves of a score with many staves, the view stays there instead of jumping back to the top staff

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Maestro 0.9.34 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Navigator: View → Navigator (⌥⌘G, Ctrl+Alt+G on Windows) shows thumbnails of every page below the score, with a frame around the visible part; click or drag to bring the score there
With measures selected, the ← → arrows move the selection to the next measure and ↑ ↓ to the staff above or below; notes move a step with ⌥↑ ⌥↓
Windows: two-finger horizontal scrolling on the touchpad now works also with drivers that used to stop it

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Maestro 0.9.33 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

← → arrows move from note to note also with the Selection tool and in Simple Entry
Enharmonic spelling with the 9 key, as in Finale (C♯ ↔ D♭), also from Notation → Enharmonic Spelling
Ties with = or T also with the Selection tool and in Simple Entry, and from Notation → Tie; if the next note is different, a message explains when the tie will appear
Windows: scroll bars along the right and bottom edges of the score, and during playback the view no longer jumps back to the top staff when you scroll down to the lower staves

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Maestro 0.9.32 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Expressive playback of strings, winds and voices: hairpins, dynamics, fp and sfz also shape long notes, notes under a slur are joined and the others slightly detached (turn it off in Settings → Playback)
SFZ libraries: in Settings → Playback choose a sample library such as VSCO 2 Community Edition (free, with a link to download it); strings, woodwinds, brass, harp and timpani play with its samples, the rest with the sound bank
With SFZ libraries that have keyswitches, «pizz.», «arco», «trem.», tremolo, staccato and «con sord.» pick the right samples
Plug-ins: in the Mixer every instrument can play with a virtual instrument (Audio Unit on Mac, VST3 on Windows, such as Kontakt or Spitfire), with its own window and the chosen sound saved in the score
Plug-in Articulations…: for each plug-in, set the library's keyswitches or controllers for pizzicato, tremolo, staccato and mute
New Score: the catalog narrows to a category (orchestra, band, jazz and pop, choir and voices, early and baroque, traditional and world) and «Save Template…» saves instruments and choices as a personal template

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Maestro 0.9.31 beta

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

New Score redesigned: templates to start from at the top, then three panels with the instrument catalog, the ensemble and the piece's fields, with a preview of the first page; «Create score» tells you what's missing
Many more instruments, from piccolo to contrabassoon: orchestra and band, jazz and pop, SATB voices, early and baroque, traditional and world instruments
Search the catalog by typing («clar» finds the clarinets) and «Add →» appears on the selected row; in the ensemble − and + set how many identical instruments (numbered automatically: Flute 1, Flute 2) and rows can be dragged to reorder them
New splash screen, the same on Mac and Windows: Maestro's name and a staff on which the music writes itself; it's shorter and doesn't appear when opening a document
Mac: Title and Composer… and Fonts… show the Maestro logo again and the OK button no longer touches the edge

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Maestro 0.9.30 beta

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Courtesy accidentals: * puts the note's accidental in parentheses even when it isn't needed, P switches it to no parentheses and back, as in Finale; also from the Notation menu and the Courtesy row in the inspector, and they go through MusicXML
Shift and the arrow keys extend the selection as in Finale: with notes selected ⇧→ ⇧← add or remove a note; with measures ⇧→ ⇧← a measure and ⇧↓ ⇧↑ a staff (moving selected measures by an octave is now ⌥⇧↑ ⌥⇧↓)
Drag a system to move it closer to or further from the one above, or right-click the clef, also in the view of a single part
Repeat Style: the choices are drawn in boxes, as in Finale
Fonts… and Title and Composer… have a button to go from one to the other, next to Cancel and OK
Mac: the View menu has Page View and Scroll View, check marks are back in the menus and unavailable items are grayed out; File → Page Setup… chooses the printer and paper

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Maestro 0.9.29 beta

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Repeats and Jumps → Repeat Style…: curved, straight or double wings, as in jazz parts, and back-to-back repeats (:‖:) thin, mixed or thick; they also come across from Finale files
Double-click the title, composer, lyricist or copyright on the page to change them; right-click for their font too. Title and Composer… has the ⇧⌘I shortcut and a Fonts… button
Page format: the distance between systems can be set in millimeters, instead of spreading the systems automatically over the page
Breve and 64th note in the durations palette and in the inspector
⇧↑ and ⇧↓ move the selected notes by an exact octave: accidentals stay, tied notes follow and percussion does not change
Finale files: a pickup measure opens as a pickup, with numbering starting from 1 at the first full measure

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Maestro 0.9.28 beta

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

File → Convert to MusicXML…: many files at once, even whole folders with their subfolders (Maestro documents, Finale .musx and .mus, MuseScore, MIDI), to .musicxml or .mxl, never replacing files already there
Settings → Playback: with no measures selected, playback can start from the first visible measure instead of the beginning
Finale files: D.S. al Coda jumps to the right Coda, even when the Coda sign is repeated or the Coda starts with the word «CODA»
Layout: rehearsal marks and tempo markings move above chord symbols instead of touching them
Parts: a multimeasure rest now includes the measure ending with a double barline or an end repeat

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Maestro 0.9.27 beta

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Older Finale .mus files open, the ones saved up to Finale 25: staves, notes, dynamics and expressions with the tempo, articulations, slurs, hairpins, repeats and endings, percussion and Finale's layout (lyrics and chord symbols not yet)
Upper and lower mordent, turn and inverted turn: from the Articulation menu, the palette or the P, I, G and V keys of the Articulation tool; they play with the notes of the key and come across in MusicXML, MuseScore and Finale
Shapeable ties and hairpins: select them with a click and drag the ends, the curvature or the opening
Settings → Appearance: the background behind the pages can be picked from ready-made colors, as well as any color you like
Finale files: the octave-down treble clef stays as it is, dynamics in the «Miscellaneous» category come across too, and the opening metronome mark becomes the tempo of the piece

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Maestro 0.9.26 beta

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Shapeable slurs: with a slur selected, drag its ends and the top of the arc (curvature); L moves it above or below the notes, and the inspector sets side and curvature or restores the automatic shape
Manually flipped stems: L, as in Finale, flips the stem of the note at the caret or of the selected notes (again, back to automatic); also in Notation → Flip stem and in the inspector
Play only the selected instruments: with the option in Settings → Playback, Space plays only the parts of the selected measures (with nothing selected, everyone plays)
Copying notes by dragging: above the measures, a grid with longer bars on the beats and shorter ones on the subdivisions shows where they will land

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Maestro 0.9.25 beta

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

New Score opens in the welcome screen, in place of recents and templates, and starts from «Blank»: add instruments one by one or choose a template
Next to the fields, a preview of the first page that follows your choices; new fields for page size and orientation, music and text fonts, key as tonic and mode (major or minor)
Sound banks: Maestro finds the ones already installed on the computer (Finale's bank, the Mac's system banks, MuseScore's SoundFonts folders) and offers them without copying them

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Maestro 0.9.24 beta

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Document → Insert Image…: a logo or another PNG or JPEG image on the page, to drag and resize, on the first page or on all of them, in the score and in the parts; it also appears when printing and in PDFs
Title and Composer: also subtitle, arranger, lyricist and copyright, printed on the first page as in Finale and read and written in MusicXML, Finale and MuseScore files
Redesigned page format, with a preview of the sheet next to the fields
Simple Entry: the transparent note under the mouse shows the chosen duration and, on percussion, the name of the instrument
Fixes: on the Mac the Title and Composer toolbar button no longer stays grey; on Windows, settings and inspector show the scroll bar only when needed

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Maestro 0.9.23 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

During playback you can scroll the score with the wheel or trackpad: the view stays where you put it and goes back to following playback a moment later
Mac: scrolling during playback no longer makes the page shake at the edge of the score

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Maestro 0.9.22 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: updates have their own window, with what's new, the download progress and «Install and Restart»
Windows: with many staves and a zoomed-in view, playback no longer makes the page jump up and down

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Maestro 0.9.21 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Instruments: Move Up and Move Down move the whole instrument (the piano with both its staves) without breaking the braces and brackets of the others; the new Move After ▸ takes it straight where you want
Windows: dates (recent files, templates, backups) are shown in local time, with daylight saving, instead of UTC

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Maestro 0.9.20 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Personal templates: new Manage Templates… window (from the File menu, the start screen and Settings) with previews, to create, edit, rename, duplicate, import, export and delete templates
New Template… creates a template with the setup wizard; Edit Template opens it as a document and Save updates it
Import… turns a MusicXML, Finale or MuseScore score into a template too; templates can be exported and shared
Save as Template… can also keep the music and text, so you start from the same structure every time
A personal template can be the one for blank scores (Settings → New Scores), and the setup wizard suggests it
Start screen: a Templates… item and a “Your Templates” row; on the Mac the window opens larger and remembers its size and position

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Maestro 0.9.19 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Mixer: each instrument has its own reverb knob next to pan, for example drums and bass drier than the strings; it applies to audio export too
In the status bar, to the right of the zoom, a gear opens the settings
MIDI .smf files open too and, on Windows, .kar karaoke files
Windows: in the Open window the first filter shows every file Maestro can open, then one filter per format
Windows: playback bar and toolbar with lighter, more consistent icons in the Windows 11 style

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Maestro 0.9.18 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

New Notation menu, the same on Mac and Windows: articulations, dynamics, slurs, text and chord symbols are no longer in Edit; in Document the Parts submenu gathers extraction, page format and cue notes
Help → Maestro Manual opens the online manual (F1 on Windows); the same menu has keyboard shortcuts, What's New and Contact Us…
Windows: the Mac shortcuts are here too, with Ctrl+Shift instead of ⌃ (Ctrl+Shift+A accent, Ctrl+Shift+1…8 dynamics, Ctrl+Shift+K chord symbol…) and Ctrl+Alt instead of ⌥⌘
Windows: in German, French and Spanish Maestro starts in the Windows language by itself; menus use the usual Windows names and all their underlined letters are different
What's New in Maestro in your language, and new scores on Letter paper in the United States, Canada and the other countries that use it
Mac: while typing in a field, ⌃A, ⌃E, ⌃K and the other text editing keys work again

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Maestro 0.9.17 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Maestro now speaks German, French and Spanish: it follows the system language, or you can pick one in Settings → Language. The translations are new: if something looks odd, let us know
Opens MuseScore 3 and 4 files (.mscz and .mscx)
Opening a Sibelius or Dorico file, Maestro explains how to export it as MusicXML
In Speedy Entry a chord can be split between the two piano staves, with a single stem
Windows: no more audio distortion, stuck notes or repeated notes adding up
More accurate texts: correct singular and plural, translated Settings tabs, and the right names for the Pause button and the time signature in the inspector

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Maestro 0.9.16 beta

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Text fonts (Document → Fonts…): font, size and style for title, chord symbols, texts, lyrics and numbers, with ready-made Jazz, Broadway and Petaluma handwritten styles
Finale files open with their own text fonts, and on Windows the PDF embeds the chosen fonts
Cleaner engraving: dynamics, hairpins and expressions sit below notes and slurs without touching them, above the staff when there are lyrics; staves are spaced on what they really contain
Slurs clear staccato, tenuto and accents; clef changes go before the barline
In tight measures notes and rests no longer touch each other or the repeat dots; grace notes keep clear of the main note
Cross-staff notes (Composition → Note on Staff Above/Below, ⌃⌘↑/⌃⌘↓; Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down on Windows): on the piano a note is written on the other staff while staying in its voice, with beams between the staves; imported from MusicXML and Finale

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Maestro 0.9.15 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Choose the music font (Document → Music Font…), with a preview: Bravura, Petaluma, Leland and Finale's six fonts included (Finale Maestro, Jazz, Broadway, Engraver, Ash and Legacy), plus installed SMuFL fonts
Finale files open in their own font: Maestro, Jazz and Broadway Copyist become Finale Maestro, Finale Jazz and Finale Broadway, even without Finale installed
Free symbol (Composition → Symbol…): any SMuFL symbol, almost 3,000 in 132 categories, searchable by name and placed above or below the staff
Copy parts of measures: selected notes paste from any point, even on an upbeat, replacing just that stretch
Dragging the selection copies it, with a beat grid above the measures (4, 8 and 6 change the step)
Windows: in Simple Entry the note to enter shows translucent under the mouse, as on the Mac

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Maestro 0.9.14 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Listen under the mouse, as in Finale: hold ⌥ on the Mac (Ctrl on Windows) and the pointer turns into an ear (a speaker on Windows); add Space to hear the notes of every staff at the point under the mouse, to check chords and voicings note by note
Keys for articulations and dynamics, on Windows too: with the Articulation tool hold A, S, T, E, M, F… and click the notes (or drag a rectangle); with the Expression tool 1…8 add dynamics from ppp to fff
Rectangle selection: drag from an empty spot to select the notes it touches, across staves too
Copy with a click, as in Finale: select some measures and ⌘-click on the Mac (Ctrl+click on Windows) where to copy them
N key for a natural, on transposing instruments too; the mixer opens with ⌃⇧M on the Mac and Ctrl+Shift+M on Windows
Fixes: articulations also apply to selected measures, dynamics go on every selected staff, and long chord symbols no longer spill out of the measure

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Maestro 0.9.13 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Export Image, on Mac and Windows (File → Export Image…): the visible page, every page or the selected measures as PNG (150, 300 or 600 dpi, also with a transparent background) or SVG, for documents, presentations and messages

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Maestro 0.9.12 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Notes from the microphone, on Mac and Windows (Playback → Record from Microphone, ⌃⌥⇧R or Ctrl+Shift+R): sing or play one note at a time and Maestro writes it in time with the metronome
Virtual drums: on a percussion staff one pad per sound, raised like a drum machine, that plays and writes the hits and lights up during playback
Virtual guitar neck: on guitar, bass and ukulele the strings and frets play and write the note on the chosen string, and light up with the tablature's notes
View → Virtual Instruments (⌥⌘J or Ctrl+Alt+J) and a new button in the playback bar to choose piano, drums or guitar and bass
Pickup measure (Document → Pickup Measure…) and a new octave-down treble clef for the tenor voice, in MusicXML files too
Cleaner layout: lyrics syllables, fermatas, Segno, Coda, jumps and tempo marks no longer overlap; MusicXML comes back with the same layout
Mac: in the new score wizard the instruments to add are no longer grayed out

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Maestro 0.9.11 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A virtual piano below the score, on Mac and Windows (View → Piano, ⌥⌘J or Ctrl+Alt+J): a click plays the note and, with Speedy or Simple Entry, writes it; Shift+click adds it to the chord
The piano keys light up with the notes playing, the selected notes and the keys held on the MIDI keyboard; keys outside the instrument's range are darker
Right-click the piano for key names, written pitch for transposing instruments and the keyboard size
Tempo marks and rehearsal marks no longer run off the page: when there are many they wrap onto several lines
Text and Chord with a measure selected go on the selected staff; ⌫ clears measures only in the selected staves and keeps clef changes
Windows: Alt shortcuts work (Alt+3 for triplets, Alt+↑/↓ in Speedy Entry), and after importing a Finale or MIDI file a notice lists what was not imported

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Maestro 0.9.10 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A welcome screen at startup, on Mac and Windows: recent documents with a thumbnail of the first page, search, and templates to start from
The welcome screen comes back when you close the last score, and opens from Window → Welcome to Maestro on the Mac and File → Welcome Screen on Windows
Windows: the entry palette can be placed in a column left of the score, as on the Mac (Settings → Appearance)
Windows: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T hides and shows the toolbar

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Maestro 0.9.9 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: toolbar like the Mac's, next to the top palette, customizable with a right-click
Windows: the status bar shows the active layer, the visible page and a zoom slider
Windows: more polished settings, with icons on the panes, volume sliders, color swatches and tooltips
Windows: pinch to zoom on the touchpad and touch screen, around the point between the fingers, and two-finger sideways scrolling
Fixed on Windows: disabled checkboxes are easy to read in the dark appearance

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Maestro 0.9.8 beta

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

New Maestro logo and icon, on Mac and Windows
Windows: several scores open at once, in tabs (Ctrl+Tab to switch, Ctrl+W to close)
Windows: dark appearance as on the Mac, automatic from Windows or chosen in the settings
Windows: print preview, M4A audio export (also for parts and setlists) and settings split into panes as on the Mac
Fixed on Windows: menus and the bar's drop-downs always open and close on the first click, and Maestro is more responsive

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Maestro 0.9.7 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: playback bar like the Mac's, with recording, TAP, speed slider, swing, accompaniment and sound bank menus, follow playback, mixer and tuner
Windows: click the measure, elapsed time, tempo and speed in the bar to change them
Windows: Scroll View has a white background, follows playback and is turned on with Ctrl+E or the button at the top right

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Maestro 0.9.6 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Fixed on Windows: Finale .musx files open with all instruments and notes, as on the Mac
Fixed on Windows: menus respond to the first click even after a click on the score that opens a dialog
Windows: files open by dragging them onto the window, and become pieces when dropped on the setlist
Windows: copied music goes to the Windows clipboard and can be pasted into another copy of Maestro

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Maestro 0.9.5 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: graphical mixer like the Mac's, with pan knobs, faders, mute/solo and level meters that move during playback
Windows: new interface settings: what to open at startup, recent documents, measure numbers, view and zoom, inspector and score colors
Windows: palettes, playback bar and status bar in the Windows font
Website: the Download page explains how to install Maestro for Windows when Windows warns that the program is not signed

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Maestro 0.9.4 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: Maestro now updates itself: once a day it checks for a new version, shows what's new and installs it (also from Help → Check for Updates…)
Windows: autosave and backups of previous versions, in Settings → Saving
Windows: Help → What's New in Maestro with the day-by-day list of changes, and a splash screen at startup
Windows: visual metronome, with beat lights flashing in time in the playback bar
Windows: complete English interface, including chord analysis and harmonization messages and errors

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Maestro 0.9.3 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Windows: MIDI keyboard for entry and real-time recording, and the percussion map
Windows: tuner with the microphone, sound bank choice and recent documents
Windows: English interface (automatic from the Windows language or chosen in the settings) and a getting-started tour on first launch
Fixed on Windows: settings are now kept after closing Maestro
Mac: in the English interface, key signatures without accidentals are translated too

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Maestro 0.9.2 beta

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Maestro for Windows: the first version for Windows 10 and 11, on Intel/AMD and ARM PCs, with an installer that does not ask for an administrator password
On Windows you get entry with the palettes and Speedy Entry, the inspector, menus with the Mac's commands, playback with the bundled sounds, the mixer, parts, setlists, printing and export to PDF, MusicXML, MIDI and WAV audio
Still missing on Windows: the MIDI keyboard, the percussion map, the tuner and the English interface
No changes on the Mac: this version brings Maestro to Windows

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Maestro 0.9.1 beta

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Automatic updates: Maestro checks for a new version by itself and installs it (Maestro → Check for Updates…, and in Settings → General)
Fixed: the reverb room chosen in the settings can now be heard (before, they all sounded the same)

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Maestro 0.9 beta

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Maestro now runs on Intel Macs too: universal app, macOS 14 or later
Setlist audio: one file per song or the whole gig in one file, also as a backing track without your own instrument
Setlist PDF: several songs in a single PDF with a table of contents and continuous page numbers
Harmonize for section: voicings for 2–5 horns from the melody and the chord symbols
Tuner using the Mac's microphone, tap tempo and a visual metronome in the playback bar
Open MIDI files: tracks, instruments, tempo and key become a score
Guitar and bass tablature (TAB), instrument changes mid-piece and cue notes in parts
Maestro is now available in English

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