odd sounds from instruments in the Unpitched Percussion category

• Sep 9, 2018 - 09:13

In 2.0.3, when I try to use the unpitched percussion instruments, over half of them are all the same sound, from bells to handclaps, they are all the sound of slightly musical tin cans being struck. The same cans for every one. In 2.3.2, I have the same problem except that they are all a series of whistles and clicks. How can I get the sounds of bells, etc. to perform correctly?


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In reply to by Beths

I think I have figured it out: I had had another (pitched) instrument in the piece and I wanted to change it to Bells, so I just did an instrument change, not a staff change. I didn't know to hunt through the scale and figure out which note name was associated with the sound of bells and only put that note into the score. So, I had already written notes in there and I clearly had not thought this process through, because I can't have notes for an unpitched instrument, duh. Sometimes I get so fixed on the music writing that I forget there is also logic in this equation.

In reply to by Shoichi

I think I have figured it out: I had had another (pitched) instrument in the piece and I wanted to change it to Bells, so I just did an instrument change, not a staff change. I didn't know to hunt through the scale and figure out which note name was associated with the sound of bells and only put that note into the score. So, I had already written notes in there and I clearly had not thought this process through, because I can't have notes for an unpitched instrument, duh. Sometimes I get so fixed on the music writing that I forget there is also logic in this equation.

In reply to by Shoichi

I think I have figured it out: I had had another (pitched) instrument in the piece and I wanted to change it to Bells, so I just did an instrument change, not a staff change. I didn't know to hunt through the scale and figure out which note name was associated with the sound of bells and only put that note into the score. So, I had already written notes in there and I clearly had not thought this process through, because I can't have notes for an unpitched instrument, duh. Sometimes I get so fixed on the music writing that I forget there is also logic in this equation.

In reply to by Beths

Without seeing your score we can really only guess, but the whole point of a drumset definition is to say which notes get which sounds, so if it is off, you will indeed get bad sounds. Things should work fine when creating a new score from within MuseScore, but if this is imported from some other source, there are no guarantees they set up their drumsets in ways that work with the default soundfont. In order to assist better, we'd need you to attach your score.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

I think I have figured it out: I had had another (pitched) instrument in the piece and I wanted to change it to Bells, so I just did an instrument change, not a staff change. I didn't know to hunt through the scale and figure out which note name was associated with the sound of bells and only put that note into the score. So, I had already written notes in there and I clearly had not thought this process through, because I can't have notes for an unpitched instrument, duh. Sometimes I get so fixed on the music writing that I forget there is also logic in this equation.

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