Another YouTube orchestral score
I've posted an orchestral arrangement of my song, North, on YouTube. It's at http://youtu.be/tR9wVrFlYbE
I'm really pleased with how far I've been able to take Musescore in terms not only of engraving my scores, which look fantastic (thanks, developers!), but also of generating good audio prototypes without resorting to behind-the-scenes trickery. North really shows off what you can do with Musescore.
I've also written a blog article about orchestrating with Musescore. It's not too technical, and looks at things like assembling an orchestra of soundfonts and balancing your orchestrations. I'm not too sure anyone else out there is using Musescore the way I do, hence posting to my blog rather than cluttering up the forum. The blog's at http://missives-from-the-edge.blogspot.ca/2013/06/orchestrating-with-mu…
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Thanks for doing this Peter.
It is a most worthwhile effort as there are many many MuseScore users who want to see improved playback facilities in MuseScore, and your efforts go a long way to showing them how to do this.
As I seem to have taken on the role of instruments and sounds manager (when I'm not too busy with real work) I would welcome your feedback on some of the proposals for restructuring the Create New Score dialogue which you can find here: http://musescore.org/en/node/19693
and here
http://musescore.org/en/node/19693
Finally, should you want a home for discussion of your particular contribution to the MuseScore community, feel free to post in the Soundfonts forum
Just listened to your piece in YouTube. Smashing!
How did you manage to load up both score and music to YTube?
In reply to Lovely music by onscuba
When i listened to your music, I hadn't bothered to read all the stuff you'd written. And all i could think of was wide open spaces, slightly "american" filmscore-ish (to my UK ears) and then I read your comments. Canadian and hating the couped up feeling of cities. Well I'd say your music spoke everything you wanted it to. I'm glad i read your comments afterwards. The emotions and feelings it created were absolutely to do with your music and NOT to do with the words you had written. Excellent!
In reply to When i listened to your by onscuba
Glad you like the piece, and thank you for the compliments. I hadn’t thought about it, but the slightly “American” flavour no doubt comes from the trumpet-on-strings sections and the inclusion of a piano, the combo of which will forever call to mind Aaron Copeland.
The Canadian north is so beautiful.
In reply to Lovely music by onscuba
Whenever possible, I engrave my scores for 11x17-inch output, which, when reduced, almost fits 1024x768 pixels (4:3 ratio). There’s a 2-3 bar overhang on the right, but reducing the score further makes it too small to render clearly on YouTube. As the blue cursor moves through the score it shows the chopped off bars, so this isn’t a problem.
I start off by making sure my scores are clean (frames, staff spacers, and invisibles all hidden). I then screen-capture the score while it’s playing and audio-capture the music, using 'ffmpeg' for screen-capturing and 'jack_record' for audio-capturing. The video is recorded at 30 frames-per-second and saved as an .mkv file. The audio is recorded as a .wav file at 44100bps. The reason for recording them separately is to allow post-processing of the audio if it’s needed.
I use a video editor (kdenlive) to assemble the tracks and render them as an mp4, then upload the video to YouTube.
If you have access to a sophisticated screen-capture application, you could probably use that instead of the separate video and audio capture.