UK Brass Band Template
A UK Brass Band Template please.
Get the UK Brass Band community on board (make it easy for them) and your increase your market by several thousand :)
Mostly Bb with 2 instruments in 3b except one octave apart
:)
Did i say 3b !... I ment Eb
Note very L33t of me
Beer confiuzes
:D
Note UK Brass band is specific to UK !
You must mark as 'UK' as Usa can differ... As Can Military Brass Band.
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A template is a MSC file. Create an empty sheet with all necessary, dave as MSC and attached it to a comment.
I have avoided creating templates for large ensembles such as orchestra, concert band, brass band, etc. because MuseScore has a number of quirks and missing features related to large orchestrations. I plan to add these templates as the features such as multi-measure rests and part extraction improve and stabilize.
he inclusion of more instruments for selection would help a lot. (if not full templates)
1) Eb Cornet
2) Eb Tenor Horn
3) Bb Euphonium
4) Bb Bass
5) Eb Bass
6) Bass Trombone
At the moment I can create these instruments by altering names a adapting the staff properties ot relative midi bass.
However....
If the instruments were preset this will speed up the process of initial generation immensely
Or.... Bb Baritone as well.
In reply to he inclusion of more by its_jon
if you are a little bit aventurous, you can check C:\Program Files\MuseScore 0.9\templates\instruments.xml and modify it to your need. You can even attach it to a comment to let people review it and maybe commit it for a next version :)
In reply to if you are a little bit by [DELETED] 5
Okay.
here we go then.
In reply to Ok... im doing it now by its_jon
New Instruments -UK Brass Set-
Please test for transpose and pitch/voice/midi accuracy
In reply to New Instruments -UK Brass Set- by its_jon
Thanks, this is great. Very useful. Something as simple as this really shows how great it is to have software that is open source.
After just discovering MuseScore, I was even more delighted to find your brass band template, however, there seems to be a problem with the Brass Band_0.mscx template. When I start a new file using this template, every line of the score says 'InstrumentLong' rather than the true name of the instrument. As I am using the program on Ubuntu Linux, I did have to rename the archive (to Band.mscx) before linux would recognise it. I copied the new brass band 'instruments.xml' into the templates directory instead of the original. I also tried extracting the 'Brass Band.mscx' file from the archive and putting it in the templates directrory as 'brass.msc'. Opening this had the same effect as the fullarchive. Do you have any ideas how I could make your template work please?
Ian
In reply to Brass Band template by Bassman_
Could you include a link to the "Brass Band_0.mscx" file. I don't see it in this thread.
In reply to Could you include a link to by David Bolton
Sorry, I'm new here and I seem to have got lost.... The Brass Band_0.mscx file must have been on another thread but so far I haven't located it. The thread it was on was obviously a precursor to this one as there was at least one message suggesting that the thread split and one of the other messages was where the 'instruments.xml' file including brass band instruments which is mentioned in this thread first appeared.
Ian
In reply to Link? by Bassman_
Erm..........
Im new to Linux, I use Ubuntu.
As far as I am aware you replace your instruments.xml file in /usr/share/mscore-0.9 or /usr/share/mscore-0.9/templates with the edited version I provided in this thread.
but back up your old instruments.xml .... Its not actually a one click template... all the instruments are listed in a handy way under the heading UK BRASS BAND inside the main instrument list (once you replace instruments.xml) however, having said that instruments.xml is very probably an upgraded version now, so if you can, copy and paste the relevant code out of my version of instrument.xml into a more recent version. ie, UK BRASS BAND downwards.
hope that makes sense, or indeed has some accuracy ! ... im very much a novice.
So.... if you get it right, all the UK brass band instruments appear in the main musescore instrument list within their own subheading. transposed and ready to go. Solo/1st/2nd horn ect in a very familiar way.