Playback in sync with audio file - how? Best practice?
Hi all together,
I can find several feature requests but I cannot find any useful hint or tip:
So, I try to arrange a score while listening to the original song (MP3).
But I always get to a point where I realize a mistake (wrong length of a note or wrong length of pause, wrong dynamics or just the complete wrong note) but cannot find it. So this is when I start trying to playback both songs in sync.
I balanced my winamp to my left ear so that I can hear only the mp3 on one ear and musescore on both to find the improper passages in my score. And here is my problem:
- At the moment I am hitting "Play" on my Winamp and then on MuseScore.
- Then I pause/play one of the track as long as it needs to be in sync.
- Of course I lose a lot of time in the beginnen until both voices are synced
(I could export the score and add it to audacity. But this is annoying - especially when you are just changing one note, export, import, listen, WRONG, damn #@!#, change note, export, import, listen, WRONG.......)
How can I playback my MP3 (with added or removed start-delay) in sync with my score?
I found hints dealing with JACK but all the posts deal with LINUX or MAC. I am using Windows.
Thanks in advance.
Patrick
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I use to do the same you do, with another audio player but the same basic technique: all by my fingers on the keyboard, hehehe!!! It is the fast way.
I don't know any MuseScore direct feature to synchronize the on-the-screen music score playback with an audio file.
BUT... If you can understand what JACK is (and how it works), you can perform a full synchronized playback between MuseScore and Gnome MPlayer (I'm talking about Linux Operating System, I don't know if it can be done with Windows or Mac).
There was a forum topic about this. Please, look for it.
I asked this direct function to the development team, but they are so busy with other more important issues by the moment. It is considered to a future version, but not as a primary thing. We have to wait... for a while!!!
As Marc always says: Remember that MuseScore has, as primary target, to get the best visual paper printed music score. All the MIDI and playback functions are "free extras", that I really thank to all the development team. To me, MuseScore is the best of the best, on the music writing and reading software world.
Greetings & Blessings from Chile (South America)!!!!!!!
Juan
In reply to I use to do the same you do, by jotape1960
Hi Juan,
it's relieving to see that I am not the only person with "strange" feature requests.
Yes, due to the idea of giving you a tool for creating good looking scores you won't need the function of sync play very often cause the tool seems to be addressed to professional composers.
But in fact as a hobby composer/instrument player it costs me a lot of time to identify the voices and melodies and I have to listen to it over and over again.
Last week I just went mad because somthing was wrong in one passage. When I got to the point I tried to stop my player and my musescore to get the correct part ... oh ... I wanted to throw my PC out of the window :)
My trombone teacher is a professional musician. He listens to a song one time and can enumerate all the voices - transscripting seems to be quiet as easy to him as listening.
That makes me a bit envious of him.
At least I found one JACK-post explaining the functions in linux. So, perhaps I will have to install a virtual linux. But of course first I will check if there is any possibility to use it in windows.
Kind regards
Patrick
In reply to Hi Juan, it's relieving to by PredatorBGodfather
as far as I know Jack is availlable for Windows too, see http://jackaudio.org/downloads/
In reply to Hi Juan, it's relieving to by PredatorBGodfather
Hi!!!
JACK works on Windows (I guess it works on MAC, too), even the fact that they don't need it (because themselves internal way to work).
But... I left Microsoft monopoly this year and, to be honest, I lost NOTHING. I win a lot with Lubuntu!!!
Lubuntu is a light version of Ubuntu, one of the Linux variations, and I use it because I don't have one of the last generation super machines. My old PCs can't handle Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10, but they work so fine with Lubuntu!!! Lubuntu, well any Linux, are so far better than any Windows.
Of course, we have to re-learn to use some things on the PCs, but... If I could... ANYBODY CAN DO IT!!! Hahahaha!!!
Move on to Linux. MuseScore works so fine with Linux, and you will have all the tools you need to any working area: Office, Audio & Video Studio, Games, etc. etc. etc.
And the most important thing about Linux: ALL IS STILL FREE, FULL FREE!!!!!!!
Greetings & Blessings from Chile (South America)!!!!!!!
Juan