What is Musteus?
Musteus is an open-source and free music notation software for Windows. It provides tools for creating, editing, printing, and playing back musical scores. Musteus allows users to write music notation including notes, rests, keys, time signatures, slurs, ties, articulations, dynamics, lyrics, chord names, guitar tablature, drum notation, and more.
Key features of Musteus include:
- Intuitive graphical user interface for entering and editing notes and symbols using mouse, computer keyboard shortcuts, or MIDI keyboard
- Support for unlimited number of staves, parts, instruments, lyrics, and chord symbols
- Tools for transposing scores and extracting parts
- Ability to display audio waveform and match notation to it
- Playback of scores via internal synthesizer and sound fonts
- Export to PDF, MIDI, MP3, WAV, MusicXML, PNG, and SVG formats
- Import of MIDI and MusicXML files
- Printouts with professional engraving results
- Multi-language support
With its easy usability combined with powerful music notation capabilities, Musteus is a great choice for musicians, composers, music students, teachers, choirs, bands, worship teams, and more looking for a free alternative to commercial options like Finale and Sibelius.