Percussive drag playback sounds incorrect
Hi,
I'm trying to write a drum score that requires playing some drags. So basically two 16th grace notes before the main note.
The problem is the playback plays those two grace notes too fast and crushed together, so the whole thing ends up sounding more like a flam than a drag.
I've tried testing the playback of the same note values on a piano score and with pitched notes the playback plays correctly.
I don't know if it's a problem that occurs only with unpitched instruments or not.
Any idea if there's a way to fix the playback to play the drag correctly on percussive scores? (so it would sound more like a horse gallop rather than crushed notes).
Using the 3.6 version on a Mac.
Comments
Playback should be the same regardless of instrument. If you attach your score and explain which specific notes you feel are not playing back as you'd like, we can understand and assist better.
In reply to By "drag", do you mean grace… by Marc Sabatella
Here's just a simple drag notation. Two examples of the same thing. One percussive, one melodic.
Tempo is 102bpm, so it might be difficult to hear the differences cuz at such speed it sounds pretty crushed even in the melodic example.
However, slow it down in the play panel and then you can clearly hear how much faster and crushed the percussive drag sounds compared to the melodic one, even though they're set to the same tempo.
I say when I take the percussive one all the way down to about 20%-30% is probably what I expect the drag to sound like at a 100%.
For the melodic one 20%-30% is way slower and you can hear a lot more space between the notes.
I basically want the playback of the drum score to play the diddle more open. I know the diddle can be subject to interpretation and can be played more open or more pressed/buzzed, but I think the playback took it to the extreme where the drag quality is completely lost.
In reply to Here's just a simple drag… by Revi4
Hmm, I can confirm weird things happen here. And it seems this was reported some time ago as well - see #283979: Grace notes play too quickly on percussion staves. In MuseScore 4 builds it seems both play about the same, faster than the piano in MuseScore 3 but not as fast as the snare drum.
In reply to Hmm, I can confirm weird… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for your response and for referring me to that post. I could only find one other post of someone expressing the same issue from two years ago, but there were no comments on that one.
I've been trying to mess with the score for quite some time, thinking maybe it was a setting thing or maybe I was somehow notating it wrong and just couldn't figure it out or possibly just my computer acting up.
Glad you could confirm it wasn't just me. I'll be awaiting an update release. Hopefully next version does it better or at least offers more tweaking options.