Adjusting Velocity in MuseScore 4 with New Soundfonts
Hi all,
I wasn't exactly sure if this was a bug or just something I'm not doing correctly, so I thought I'd post this here:
In MuseScore 3, there is an option to "fine tune" the dynamics to essentially change what the dynamic really means. For example, a "forte" dynamic is set to a volume of 96 by default, but that can be too loud or too quiet in certain scenarios for whatever reason, so I often have the need to fine tune this myself to a slightly higher or lower volume. This is done by selecting the relevant dynamic and altering the velocity in the right-hand menu up to a maximum of 127 (I think this is due to how MIDI works which gives a maximum of this value).
It seems that MuseScore 4 have replaced this with a slightly different feature that (from what I understand) is supposed to allow you to change the velocity on each individual note, rather than from the dynamic marking itself, presumably to give you more control over the velocity of different notes. This is supposed to be done by selecting the relevant note(s) and going into the left-hand menu under Properties -> Playback and adjusting the velocity in the same way as before.
I'm not sure if I'm just not doing this correctly, or if there is an issue because this feature doesn't seem to be working for me with the nice MuseScore soundfonts from MuseHub, so I'm not sure if it is an issue with those.
I should point out that I am using the latest version of MuseScore 4 on Windows 10.
For an example, please see the attached file. In this score for example, I would like to increase the volume of the cornets in bars 12 and 16 from from 96 to something like 112 whilst still preserving the "forte" dynamic marking. Changing the velocity doesn't appear to be doing anything for me, even lowering the number to 1 yields the same volume when surely this shouldn't be heard anymore. Some of the notes don't appear to be playing either and I'm not sure why.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Dave.
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Hi Dave and all,
Just wanted to add that I have experienced the same problem trying to adjust the velocity of individual notes using the Clarinet B from the MuseHub.
I am using version 4.2.
KInd regards,
Bent
In reply to I have experienced the same… by bronsholdt
Hi bronsholdt,
Just updated to the newest version, and I'm quite disappointed that this isn't higher on MuseScore's priorities of things to update and fix. Seems a bit pointless releasing new soundfonts when they don't have the correct balance with other instruments. Not to mention the way to fix them doesn't seem to work.
Have to confess that I have reverted back to MS 3 until the problem is drastically improved.
Anyway, apologies for the slight rant, and I hope you get your problem resolved.
Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
Dave.