OSMD Blog - Open Sheet Music Display

OSMD 2.0.0 presents: 2× Faster Rendering, Lazy Rendering, Tremolos & Cross‑Staff Slurs

OpenSheetMusicDisplay 2.0.0 is a major release: ~1.8× average rendering speedup by replacing pixel readbacks with a geometric skyline calculation, new lazy/incremental rendering (renderNext) for fast first paint, support for tremolos between notes and cross-staff slurs, crisper stafflines, and numerous bug fixes and engraving improvements. Ideal upgrade for web score viewers and music-learning apps.

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OSMD Braille receives netidee funding — expanding accessible digital sheet music

Announcement, Grant

Last Thursday at VIENNABallhaus in Vienna, we received a new grant from netidee, Austria’s largest internet funding initiative. That’s a milestone with some history behind it: netidee already backed the

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OSMD 1.9.0 brings courtesy accidentals and many other improvements!

Announcement, Developers, Features, Typescript

OSMD 1.9.0 was just released and brings many improvements like courtesy accidentals, as the changelog shows. Let’s give you an overview of the changes: Courtesy Accidentals are now shown Courtesy

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Jianpu mode now in early access for Sponsors (Numbered Musical Notation)!

Announcement, Features, Software

Jianpu notation, also called Numbered Musical Notation, is a simplified musical notation that uses numbers instead of the 5 stafflines, clefs, noteheads and so on. It originated in China, but is used in many countries in the world, including Japan and the US. It is especially popular and in demand in Asian countries for education, traditional instruments or choral and folk music.

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OSMD-Update 1.8.0: More functions and accuracy

Announcement, Features, Software, Typescript

The latest version of Open Sheet Music Display fixes bugs and offers helpful features. Open Sheet Music Display, a web-based software for rendering sheet music in MusicXML format, has released

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OSMD 1.5 is now 30-60% faster!

Announcement, Developers, Features, Typescript

OSMD 1.5.0 was just released (see changelog) and is now 30-60% faster! How, you ask? The short answer: batch processing and WebGL. How OSMD got a 30-60% speed boost It

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Performance Mode – WP Premium Feature Highlight

Premium, WordPress

Overview “Performance Mode” was introduced exclusively for our Github sponsors and Premium WordPress users. It uses a faster algorithm to render the music sheet, resulting in up to 3x less

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Introducing OSMD dark mode

Announcement, Developers, Engine, Features, Knowledge Hub, Library, Software

What’s the dark mode all about? The new dark option enables developers using OSMD to set the music sheet background color and the music sheet color itself, for example to

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OSMD Starts the year with a new update

Announcement, Developers, Features

Rendering Music XML just got on a new level. The new 1.4.1. version is packed with cool new features like single instrument transposition, chord symbol coloring, staggering option, etc. In

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10 ideas for NFTs in (classical) music today

Blockchain

In part 1 of this mini-series on NFTs, I discussed why I think NFTs are so revolutionary, but that they will ultimately be so commonplace as to be boring. This

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