Why is accent articulation playback a "time stretch" setting instead of a "velocity" one?
Hi here :)
I'm using Musescore 3.6.2 and when I'm selecting an accent, the inspector articulation playback offers me to change the time length instead of the volume (which I guess is normally called velocity within Musescore).
Is it supposed to be like that or is it a bug?
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The time stretch won't have any effect, I believe, it is there for some articulations like fermatas. Similar for the Ornament Style, which doesn't apply to Articulations at all, but only to Ornaments. They used to share a common palette "Articulations & Ornaments" in some previous version.
There's no velocity setting for any of those.
In reply to The time stretch won't have… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for the reply! But then I wonder how could I add, or even trick, a stronger playback volume change on some notes? Because it seems that it was possible before now with an accent, still using the version 3.
I'm not a music theory expert but I thought a dynamic accent meant a stronger volume/attack on the accented notes.
In reply to Thank you for the reply. But… by ivangabriele
No, there the notes are selected and their velocity is set, not the accent. This is still possible.
In reply to Interesting, I don't recall… by Jojo-Schmitz
Now I understand what's wrong. You're indeed right about the fact that there has always only been a time stretch setting in the inspector on accents (I checked on an another computer) that doesn't affect anything.
I just discovered that adding an accent on some custom SoundFont instruments doesn't affect their volume at all while it works perfectly fine with some others (even within the same SoundFount library).
In my case, the "Tyros Nylon Express" sound from the Accoustic Guitars JNv2.4 SoundFont has no volume change while the "Nylon 2 Expressive" one has a volume change. I guess it's an issue related to the SoundFont itself rather than Musescore.
In reply to Now I understand what's… by ivangabriele
In general only "expressive" sounds do respond to single note dynamics.
Why someone has the idea to create an expressive sound for Accoustic Guitars is beyone be, this instrument is not capable of single note dynamics at all (no plucked, picked or struck instrument is)
In reply to In general only "expressive"… by Jojo-Schmitz
I didn't think about that, but it makes sense (that it doesn't haha). Thank you again :).
In reply to Now I understand what's… by ivangabriele
To be clear: "velocity" and "volume" are two different concepts in MIDI, but most older systems treated "velocity" as implying sometime about volume automatically. Some soundfonts still see things that way, others see them as the different things they are. When using soundfonts other than the default, it's up to you to set things up properly to get them to interpret velocity and volume as appropriate for that particular soundfont. Using the default, everything works perfectly right out of the box, but with third part soundfonts, you may need to play with settings in View / Synthesizer / Dynamics.