Soundfont tutorial available

• Oct 24, 2019 - 13:14

I've made a (fairly) short introduction to the use of SoundFont files in MuseScore. The tutorial describes the addition of custom recorded sounds into a new SoundFont, followed by its use in MuseScore. The sound file examples are all bird noises (recorded from analog sources using very basic equipment.)
The tutorial guides you on how to use these SoundFonts in your next composition, but you can apply to techniques to any recordable sound you can find. Once converted to a SoundFont, you'll find that the creation of tracks that use these 'instruments' quite intuitive, and easy to make.

Here's the link to the tutorial (sorry didn't postt this link before:
httpss://musescore.org/en/node/293510

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:13

Ooohhh, nasty. Every site's got one = PA freaks, dime-a-dozen when you want to say something, or contribute something positive. We've all seen it hundreds of time before, which you'd think would make these people give up. But obviously not. They get some weird satisfaction from their zero-value-add commentary that tends towards the 'tear down' rather than the 'build up': the 'build up' being such an important part of creating a community like that on musescore which is generally very positive and supportive. I don't intend to correspond further with these people - it's just too hard work, and meaningless at the same time, not to mention slightly sad stating such nasty passive-aggressive thing over a simple, positive article posting.

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:35

Jojo is one of the founders and creators of this product, this site, these fora, etc. He is not some kind of troll or freak. Please learn who people are here and what they do and have said in the past. His gently humorous aside, that your tutorial is (very happily, AFAIAC) lengthy, is hardly the vicious assault of which you accuse him. Please acquaint yourself with communities you join before slamming them.

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:49

OK BSG, I get that he's making 'humorous' contributions but his contributions (all over the site) are usually just plain negative, passive-aggressive or cynical. That's his right - every site has these people, but there's no harm in pointing out how destructive these comments are to people who might be thinking of making a contribution. These people scare newbies, and the result is a less rich community.

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:59

There was nothing humorous about my remark, just an honest doubt that this tutorial might not be meant, as it is not short at all and older than another (and shorter) one from you on a similar topic.

The one that is agressive here (and completly out of the blue and even active-agressive and offensive) is you...

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:59

This isn't a social media chat room, a club for music lovers, or a self-help site or one with social or psychological goals. We're here to report and evaluate issues and proposals relative to a piece of software with broad usership. Negative comments are as important as positive ones, as well as comments in broken English by people with minimal facility in this language. It is not important to be supportive or caring, only on-point, accurate, and adult, and reasonably courteous. Although I have differed with Jojo at times, including, notably, my own being flat-out wrong/misinformed, I have found him to be among the most knowledgeable, informed, helpful, and thoughtful members of the community here, and if he is now-and-then sarcastic, well, aren't we all, and this is hardly deserves such vituperation as you posted. We are here to support MuseScore, not each other.

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 19:38

We're talking about one person here, and the 'vituperation' (your words) are pretty minor in the scheme of
things. I don't hold a grudge about them and still love the community. Jojo is indeed informative, but his own responses stand on their own, (which I've seen ever since i joined.) It's the passive/agressive language that is is nasty and unnecessary In a relatively small comunity where people are generally pretty friendly. Of course negative criticism is fine, in fact it can be most helpful,but I think we'd all agree there's a preference that it also be constructive, and not snide.

That's it guys I love the community, and will keep communicating regardless of the ways other's communicate about 'big isues'.

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:36

What???

Simple question: is that the Tutorial you meant?

It had been posted 2 months ago, another (shorter) one of yours much more recently (2 weeks), your anouncement just today, so I had no way of knowing withich you meant.

And I didn't mean to imply 'too long', just longer than your 'short' meant to me

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• Oct 24, 2019 - 16:36

Sorry geetee - here's the link:
https://musescore.org/en/node/293510
Although MuseScore's search box will find it if anyone enters "Tutorial, MuseScore, SoundFont" - it's a pretty gooding indexing system, and have always found what I needed with it! (Edit: updated to put https:// at front of link, and fixed typo - I meant the indexing system seems to work well on this site, and you can usually find what you want quickly, in my experience anyway). The other tutorial is not about SoundFonts, rather it's about managing your instruments.xml file.

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