Newbie Question about whether it's possible to use ".vst" or ".mse" formats in MuseScore from a synthesizer download site?
Here is the youtube video I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KMnRdyRjQ
The first 12 seconds of the video (before he starts messing with the dials) is the sound I would like to be able to use in MuseScore 3. I've successfully added SoundFonts but only those in SF2 format. Here are 9 SoundFonts I've successfully installed and began using:
https://i.imgur.com/JTufyAi.png
However, I have tried searching google and searching these forums but cannot find an answer. It seems like it's possible if I study this page meticulously:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/synthesizer
If I study that page about synthesizers, will it teach me how to install the "Atmos 2 ambient piano" sound from the first 12 seconds of the youtube video? 🤔
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You wait for MuseScore 4, which has VST3 support built-in; then you download the VST3 version of that Atmos2 and load it via the mixer.
The sound you are looking for does not seem particularly different to a mellow piano plus pad. These are commonly available in sf2 format or you could easily add pad to your favorite piano using Polyphone soundfont editor. I've got a couple of piano plus pad presets in a few of the soundfonts on my site.
Look for 2Grands-Plus-Instruments-bs16i-v4.1 on my site for instance
https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
In reply to The sound you are looking… by Jonky Ponky
2Grands-Plus-Instruments-bs16i-v4.1.sf2 (739,083 kb)
Thank you so much. I downloaded the file you instructed and opened it (using MuseScore-3 ) so I'm 99% sure I correctly added it to my MuseScore-3 but where do I look for the "mellow piano plus pad" present you mentioned in MuseScore?
I just began last month using this software and I'm still learning the ropes, so I apologize if I missed an obvious or easy step.
Update 1: I found "YamC5 + pad" by clicking "View -> Mixer" -- is that the preset you wanted me to find?
Update 2: -- Thanks for making me finally realize how useful the Mixer is! The ability to mute voices is something I have been needing but didn't know there was a tool in MuseScore that could do this! I was manually copy/pasting tracks into another score to "mute" them temporarily which as you can imagine, was very inefficient!