Change Instrument?
I need to change the Horns in C part to Horns in F. However, when I do so, the Horns in F don't play, but the ones in C do. Why?
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I need to change the Horns in C part to Horns in F. However, when I do so, the Horns in F don't play, but the ones in C do. Why?
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And when I change the F Horns back to C the C ones don't play too
Can you elaborate more on which steps you're taking? Perhaps combined with sharing a sample score?
If you'd actually changed the Horns in C to be Horns in F; then there wouldn't be a Horns in C left.. Which already makes me struggle with your 2nd sentence.
In reply to Can you elaborate more on… by jeetee
So in my Oboe Concerto in the First Movement I have horns in C. Then for the Second Movement I change them to horns in F. Then in the Finale I change them back to C horns.
And the horns in neither the 2nd nor the Finale movements have playback sound
(sry for poor English)
In reply to So in my Oboe Concerto in… by PallandoTheBlue
So what I'm doing is
1) In the Text palette, select Change Instr.
2) Right Click it, click Change Instrument.
3) Change the C Horns to Horn in F.
Doing the same thing for the Finale, but changing Horn in F to Horn in C
In reply to So what I'm doing is 1) In… by PallandoTheBlue
As mentioned, in order to really understand what is happening, we'd need you to attach your score. But in general, nothing about changing instruments to should cause anything to start or stop playing, it should simply start using a different sound if applicable.
In reply to As mentioned, in order to… by Marc Sabatella
Here
In reply to Here by PallandoTheBlue
You mean the change from C Horn to F Horn at rehearsal mark G, measure 139?
Playback is just fine here, before and after the instrument change
In reply to You mean the change from C… by Jojo-Schmitz
Not for me somehow. I use the Aegean Symphony Orchestra soundfont and after the instrument change there's no playback
In reply to Not for me somehow. I use… by PallandoTheBlue
Ah, that might be the cause then. I'm using the MuseScore HQ SoundFont, as fat as I know the Aegean Symphony Orchestra is not GM compatible, you may need to manually assign a sound from it in the Mixer, expand the Horn to see the 2 channels, and in there their sound
In reply to Ah, that might be the cause… by Jojo-Schmitz
How do I expand the horn?
In reply to How do I expand the horn? by PallandoTheBlue
Nvm
In reply to Nvm by PallandoTheBlue
Ok TYSM
In reply to Here by PallandoTheBlue
There's quite some things going on there. First off, I'm going to assume you're using non default/standard soundfonts for some of your instruments? As I open up that score, I find that all strings have been set to "Grand Piano" playback sound, as well as the first and second channels of your Horns instrument. Only the 3rd and last channel of it is set to the "French Horns Expr." sound.
2nd thing is that you seem to be using a lot of invisibility workarounds to cover up not having used sections breaks at the end of a section. If you were to use them, then there wouldn't be any courtesy keys/time signatures and measure numbering of the next part would automatically restart (but you can change that in the break properties should you choose to) (See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/breaks-and-spacers).
So all you probably need to do is to go into the mixer, make sure to expand the horn instrument and select the desired sound for each channel (which is created/added by the change instrument instruction).
But in the end though, the way I would've approached this is to add both a Horn in C as well as a Horn in F instrument, and then make use of the "Hide empty staves" options to only show the relevant instrument in the relevant section.
[EDIT] started typing this reply and then dayjob happened; feel free to ignore this as you've had your answer already :)