Reverting from Musesounds
Does anyone know if we can access midi playback sounds from previous versions of Musescore? The introduction of Musesounds is causing problems for my playback - lag and issues potentially with processing (though I don't know why as I'm using an M1 2021 Macbook Pro), volume deficiencies for vocals that the faders can't fix even when maxed out, and there just aren't that many options yet for musesounds. Despite them sounding much less realistic the older playback sounds from M3 were much more functional for my purposes. Anywhere I can access them?
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Just following up on this to see if anyone has advice on how to revert to previous playback sounds?
In reply to Just following up on this to… by jacobsamuel24
In the mixer just select MS Basic as the sound font. Click on the sound you currently have and you should see a dropdown menu where MS Basic can be selected. MS Basic is pretty much the same sound font that was provided with MU3.
In reply to In the mixer just select MS… by SteveBlower
Yep I see that option but it appears that limits me to whatever instrument is specified on the staff. So for example if I have a choral arrangement but I want the midi playback to be a piano (because the automated oohs and ahhs are both hard to hear and a bit creepy) I don't have the ability to get the MS Basic piano without switching every instrument to a piano manually on the score. I wish we had a dropdown menu for MS Basic sounds within the mixer.
In reply to Yep I see that option but it… by jacobsamuel24
You can if each sound is a separate sound font. Fortunately Marc Sabatella has created a collection of separate MU Basic sound fonts. See this thread and scroll to the bottom for a download link.
https://musescore.org/en/node/345470
I haven't tried them myself but other users report success.
And I understand that the capability to choose a sound from within MU Basic sounds in the mixer will be implemented in the next release. See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15190
But Marc's workaround seems useful enough for now.
In reply to You can if each sound is a… by SteveBlower
This is awesome. Thanks so much for tracking this down.