Problems with soundfonts in Musescore 2.0 (Revision: 1efc609, Mac OSX 10.9.4)
Hi,
First, this is a much better software than 1.3 - I found that a lot of the durations not adding up in 1.3 have been fixed automatically when opening the old scores.
I did run into a few issues however.
1. Selecting multiple soundfonts seems to be broken for me. It's doing something, but definitely not what I want. As an example adding a guitar soundfont with 3 instrument inside and an accordion soundfont with 5 instruments - between the mixer and the player they get confused. Selecting any guitar plays ok, however selecting the 4th entry would still play the guitar #1 where that is 100% an accordion. The logic seems off, counting the first instrument twice - it plays:
1. Guitar #1 plays ok
2. Guitar #2 plays ok
3. Guitar #3 plays ok
4. Accordion #1 - plays Guitar #1
5. Accordion #2 - plays Guitar #2
6. Accordion #3 - plays Guitar #3
7. Accordion #4 - plays Accordion #1
8. Accordion #5 - plays Accordion #2
So there's no way to play Accordions #3, #4, #5.
Trying to change the order of sf instruments in the synth dialog crashed the app a few times, once I tried to get back to the mixer.
2. Everything is exported in the default piano - even though I've removed it and added new soundfonts. The playback is fine inside Musescore but the exported wav is not.
3. The rendering seemed to sometimes flicker/"jump", oscillating between no space between rows to huge spaces.
I realize this is probably due to the new feature (drag'n'drop the rows) but would it be possible to lock/unlock it?
Thank you,
Sebastian
Comments
Can you post the score you are having problems with, and/or a screenshot of your Mixer settings?
The export issue is, I think, #21592: Exported audio doesn't play loaded soundfont, and see the discussion there for a workaround / solution.
For #3, I can't tell what you mean. Again, it would help if you posted a sample score and a description of exactly what you trying to do, what you expect to see happen, and what is happening instead.
In reply to Can you post the score you by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for your answer.
For #1 I can reproduce this every single time, with any score, all soundfonts I've tried.
I'm attaching the score and the screenshot.
In reply to Multiple soundfonts playback issue by SebiF
I think for #1 we'd need to see the specific soundfonts you are trying to use. I'm confused, as your screenshot doesn't seem to match your description of the problem. I don't see any guitars?
In reply to I think for #1 we'd need to by Marc Sabatella
I had a different setup when I wrote the 2nd post, which I think is even more telling (5 instruments the first font, 7 the second), but as I mentioned I see the same behavior with all soundfonts I've tried (> 20 combinations). Am I allowed to post the sf2 here?
In reply to Multiple soundfonts playback issue by SebiF
You have run into this problem SebiF......
http://musescore.org/en/node/22934
I thought it had been fixed, but obviously not.
An issue should be raised in the issue tracker.
The workaround is simple - open one of the soundfonts in Viena or Polyphone and change the bank number from 0 to 1 then resave (personally I would use a different filename).
In reply to You have run into this by ChurchOrganist
Thank you!
It seems similar but in my case I can actually play instruments from the 2nd font as well.
The rule is consistently:
If Soundfount 1 has N instruments & Soundfount 2 has M instruments then
the mixer will show N+M entries in the list.
If N <M then
from 1 to N the instruments will play properly
from N+1 to 2N it will play CURRENT_POSITION-N
from 2N to M it will play the first instruments from Soundfount 2.
It looks like it counts Soundfount 1 twice when interpreting the list selection.
If N > M however it will obviously only ever play sounds from Soundfount 1.
In reply to Thank you!It seems similar by SebiF
That's a very clear description, thanks. Hopefully someone can reproduce the issue from that information and file a bug report in the issue tracker.