Sounds an octave higher
Hi, mates.
Recently I noticed that any soundfont I add to my MuseScore sounds too high.
I'm a tenor sax player, so I downloaded several soundfonts I could find there around. Each and every of them sounds like a soprano. Even tried another brass instrument, like english horn, for the same results.
Any idea what could it be?
I use the treble clef, as for any tenor sax score, where the center D is on the fourth space and the lower note is the Bb under the stave.
Any help appreciated.
Marc.
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Hard to say without seeing the specific score you are talking about, but my guess is you are simply not taking the trnaposition of the instrument into account, and are entering a note in Concert Pitch mode while expecting it to be the written pitch. Or you are actually using one of the octave transposing clefs with the little "8" above or below.
In reply to Hard to say without seeing by Marc Sabatella
Hey, thanks. I've already tried to put a treble clef with an 8 below in an attempt to lower down an octave, and noticed the whole written score was shifted down automatically (kinda logical), but still the sounds remain the same i.e. soprano-like.
In reply to Hey, thanks. I've already by Marc92FS
Changing clef doesn't change pitch of nots already entered - you'd need to do that separately (eg, select all, ctrl+down).
Tenor Sax, when taken from the new score wizzard or add instruments dialog, is a transposing Instrument, transposing an major second + an octave down and is shown with a treble clef, so it should sound that way too.
If is is not for, pleasse attach a score that shows the problem.
In reply to Tenor Sax, when taken from by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi, thanks for your answer. I supposed MuseScore would take into account the transposing, as any score writing program does, so I did not take that into account by the time I started scribing.
As I had installed MS recently -I'm still in my first stages on it- it featured just the default piano. Later I realized the "soundfont" feature and looked for a tenor sax to put a more realistic sound to my notes. Here's the transcription score from the tune I'm playing on my horn (the real one) and I'd like it to sound more or less similar to the instrument.
I appreciate your help.
In reply to Hi, thanks for your answer. I by Marc92FS
MuseScore *does* take transposition into account automatically. You can enter notes at concert pitch or at written pitch and MuseScore behaves correctly. You just have to make sure you are in the proper mode for the way you are entering notes. If you wish to enter notes at concert pitch, you need to have the Concert Pitch button turned on. And if you wish to enter notes at written pitch, you need to have the Concert Pitch button turned off.
The score you posted does not appear for tenor saxophone at all. The staff properties say it is for piano, no transposition. If you wish to enter notes for tenor saxphone, you should start by adding that instrument, not piano, when creating your score.
In reply to MuseScore *does* take by Marc Sabatella
However, it's not too late to convert it to a tenor sax part: https://musescore.org/en/node/35961#change-instrument
In reply to However, it's not too late to by Isaac Weiss
Yep... I could change the instrument following the instructions on the link. Although that made the entire score to shift higher, then I put it down to where I had originally written it. Sounds pretty realistic. Thanks a lot.
This might not be relevant to the problem at hand, but regarding the first post in this thread English Horn is not a brass instrument, it's a woodwind.
In reply to This might not be relevant to by marty strasinger
I downloaded the MuseHub Orchestra Demo Score & I noticed that in the 2nd Violin part, there was an Open String Symbol which is actually bigger than the Harmonics Symbol. Because the Harmonics sounded an Octave higher than written on the 2nd Violins part, I transposed those notes down an octave by adding an Octave Lower Line to correct it.
In reply to I downloaded the MuseHub… by s1114182721
I hope those demo scores get updated