Pitch of Bright Grand Piano (and others) is off by 2 Halftones in MuseScore_General[_Full].sf3

• Jan 13, 2019 - 13:43
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

If I use the default soundfont MuseScore_General or MuseScore_General_Full, the pitch of Bright Grand Piano is two Halftones higher than the pitch of Grand Piano. If I choose another soundfont using the Synthesizer window e.g. FluidR3_GM, both pitches are identical. This also applies for other sounds e.g. Honky Donk.

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• Jan 13, 2019 - 14:00
Status active ⇒ needs info
Type Plugins ⇒ Functional

There is no MuseScore_General_Full that would be part of MuseScoew 2.x or 3.0 (yet), so which soundfont exactly are you talking about?

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• Jan 15, 2019 - 06:10
Reported version 2.3 ⇒  

Yikes! What an embarrassing bug. My parameter optimization in v0.1.3 negated the need for the coarse tuning hack I was using on the bright, mellow and honky-tonk pianos, but I forgot to remove the hack. This will be fixed in the next version.

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• Jan 24, 2019 - 18:50
Status active ⇒ fixed

This bug is fixed in MuseScore_General version 0.1.4, available here. Please note that I have changed the bank assignments for the new ensemble strings. This affects all ensemble Violas, Celli, and Basses presets. Any scores using these strings with version 0.1.3 will need to re-assign the presets in the mixer upon switching to 0.1.4. I apologize for the inconvenience. This was done to better accommodate future expansion, such as the upcoming "expressive" presets that support single-note cresc. and dim.

Features of this release:
* Fixes the following issues: #281732, #280907, #280904, and #272992.
* Improved the dynamic response of the acoustic pianos.
* Re-numbered ensemble strings bank numbers to make room for future expansion.

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