3.0 Handbook: outline
Note: This is a temporary page (not part of the actual handbook) for editors to add notes, memos etc. (and now moved out of the outline)
See New Features - Summary for a detailed rundown of what's new in MS 3, and therefore what needs updating in the handbook. Marc Sabatella has produced a checklist of MS 3.0 Handbook priorities which you can also refer to.
Getting started
- Learning MuseScore UPDATED
- Get Support UPDATED
- Installation Initial preferences setup added UPDATED
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Checking for updates UPDATED (but needs review esp. from Mac, Linux and Windows Store and Windows Portable App version users).
Basics
- Create new score MacOs/Linux path names need checking. UPDATED TO 3.0.1.
- Note input UPDATED TO 3.0.
- Concert pitch UPDATED to 3.0.
- Copy and paste UPDATED to 3.0.
- Edit mode UPDATED to 3.0.
- Inspector UPDATED to 3.0.
- Measure operations FULLY UPDATED to 3.0.
- Palettes UPDATED
- Workspaces OK. UPDATED to 3.0.
- Open/Save/Export/Print UPDATED to 3.0
- Selection modes UPDATED to 3.0
- Share scores online UP-TO-DATE
- Undo and redo Already UP-TO-DATE
- Viewing and navigation All OK. UPDATED to 3.0
- Voices UPDATED to 3.0.
Notation
- Accidentals UPDATED to 3.0
- Arpeggios and glissandi UPDATED to 3.0
- Articulations and ornaments UPDATED to 3.0
- Barlines UPDATED to 3.0.
- Beams UPDATED to 3.0.
- Bends UPDATED to 3.0.
- Brackets UPDATED to 3.0.
- Breaths and pauses UPDATED to 3.0.
- Clefs UPDATED to 3.0.
- Drum notation UPDATED to 3.0.
- Grace notes UP-TO-DATE
- Hairpins UPDATED to 3.0.
- Key signatures UPDATED to 3.0.
- Lines UPDATED to 3.0.
- Measure rests UPDATED to 3.0.
- Octave lines UPDATED to 3.0.
- Repeats and jumps UPDATED to 3.0.
- Slurs UPDATED to 3.0.
- Tablature UPDATED to 3.0.
- Ties UPDATED to 3.0.
- Time signatures UPDATED to 3.0.
- Transposition UPDATED to 3.0.
- Tremolo UPDATED to 3.0.
- Tuplets UPDATED to 3.0.
- Voltas UPDATED to 3.0.
Sound and playback
- Mid-staff instrument changes UPDATED to 3.0.
- Mixer UPDATED to 3.0.
- ピアノロールエディター NEW UPDATED to 3.0.
- Play mode UPDATED to 3.0.
- Soundfonts and SFZ files UPDATED to 3.0.
- Swing UPDATED to 3.0.
- Synthesizer UPDATED to 3.0.
- Tempo UPDATED to 3.0.
- Dynamics UPDATED to 3.0.
- Capo playback NEW UP-TO-DATE.
Text
- Text basics UP-TO-DATE
- Text editing UP-TO-DATE
- Text styles and properties UPDATED to 3.0
- Staff and system text UPDATED to 3.0.
- Chord symbols UPDATED to 3.0
- Fingering UPDATED to 3.0
- Lyrics UPDATED to 3.0
- Rehearsal marks UPDATED to 3.0
Formatting
- Layout and formatting FULLY UPDATED TO 3.0.
- Measure UPDATED. Some options still need a short explanation.
- Page settings UPDATED to 3.0.
- Breaks and spacers. UPDATED to 3.0.
- Frames UPDATED to 3.0.
- Images UPDATED to 3.0.
- Image capture UPDATED to 3.0.
- Align elements UP-TO-DATE
Advanced topics
- Accessibility Needs rewrite and condensing?
- Albums
- Automatic placement NEW UPDATED to 3.0.
- Cross-staff notation UPDATED
- Early music features UPDATED
- Figured bass UPDATED
- File formats UPDATED
- Fretboard diagrams FULLY UPDATED to 3.0.
- Master palette UPDATED
- MIDI import REVISED.
- Note input modes UPDATED.
- Noteheads FULLY UPDATED to 3.0.
- Parts UPDATED to 3.0
- Plugins UPDATED.
- Preferences UPDATED to 3.0.
- Recovered files UPDATED
- Score properties UPDATED
- Score comparison NEW UPDATED.
- Staff / Part Properties UPDATED to 3.0.
- Staff Type Change NEW UPDATED to 3.0
- Timeline NEW UPDATED to 3.0
- Tools UPDATED to 3.0.
Support
(How to ask for help. Contributing to development.)
Leave as "Support" for now. Customising elements should be kept, as before, on the relevant page; Preferences in Advanced topics; Custom toolbars in "Viewing and navigation." Best to complete the revision first, then post suggestions in "Documentation."
Appendix
(User reference material)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Command line options
- New features in MuseScore 3 Need to be updated with links to description of new/changed features
- Known limitations in MuseScore 3.x Ok?
- Known incompatibilities Ok?
- Glossary