Open a Chinese pop songbook or a guzheng method and you’ll find numbers where you’d expect noteheads. That’s Jianpu (简谱), numbered musical notation, and for a lot of musicians it’s
OSMD Jianpu 2.2.1 Update: Grace Notes, Ornaments, Key Changes, and Playback Read More »
OpenSheetMusicDisplay 2.2.1 lands with 66 bug fixes, including dynamics read from note notations, cleaner slurs and articulations, correctly staggered voices, and reliable re-rendering and renderNext().
OpenSheetMusicDisplay 2.2.1 Released: 66 Bug Fixes, Smarter Dynamics & Cleaner Slurs Read More »
OpenSheetMusicDisplay 2.2.0 lands with 105 improvements: ~10% faster rendering, measure-repeat (simile) signs, part groups, a new IntervalTransposeCalculator, and dozens of MusicXML notation fixes.
OSMD 2.2.0 Released: ~10% Faster Rendering, Measure-Repeat Signs & Smarter Transposition Read More »
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.
OSMD 2.0.0 presents: 2× Faster Rendering, Lazy Rendering, Tremolos & Cross‑Staff Slurs Read More »
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
OSMD Braille receives netidee funding — expanding accessible digital sheet music Read More »
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
OSMD 1.9.0 brings courtesy accidentals and many other improvements! Read More »
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.
Jianpu mode now in early access for Sponsors (Numbered Musical Notation)! Read More »
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
OSMD-Update 1.8.0: More functions and accuracy Read More »
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
OSMD 1.5 is now 30-60% faster! Read More »
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
Introducing OSMD dark mode Read More »
