Play two sounds at a time?
I was wondering if it was possible to get a synth part to play two sounds at the same time. I really like to use the Piano and Warm-Synthesizer together playing the exact same thing and was wondering if it was possible to do such a thing in Musescore.
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Sure. Happens quite often that 2 instruments play in unison
In reply to Sure. Happens quite often… by Jojo-Schmitz
How would I do that?
In reply to How would I do that? by mnwokedi1483
Just have a score with 2 instruments (Piano and Warm-Synthesizer) add the notes to one, copy/paste to the other
In reply to Just have a score with 2… by Jojo-Schmitz
So there's no way I can have both sounds under one instrument?
In reply to So there's no way I can have… by mnwokedi1483
You could try some trickery perhaps, but yes, generally speaking if you want two instruments to do something you'll have to tell two instruments to do something. In music this means notating for both of them.
Otherwise resort to a DAW which can very likely create a linked track for such purposes. If you're not already familiar with those though, you'll likely loose way more time than simply copy-pasting the notation to the instrument itself.
In reply to So there's no way I can have… by mnwokedi1483
Why? One instrument, one sound.
But you can even have unsion notes inside one instrument. Only they'd use the same sound...
In reply to So there's no way I can have… by mnwokedi1483
No, but you can make the second instrument invisible so you never have to see it.
In reply to No, but you can make the… by Spire42
But don't do that until you're finished creating the score, or you will just forget to propagate changes. I do this all the time with contrabass behind cello unseen, and it is a pain.
In reply to But don't do that until you… by [DELETED] 1831606
I agree it's nice to have thus automatically, But I definitely would much rather see it as a form of linked staves, so there are actually two separate instruments, rather than merely two sounds for one instrument. After all, someone may well want to print that contrabass part. Also this would be very useful for the case of someone wanting to create multiple versions of a part with different transpositions.
In reply to I agree it's nice to have… by Marc Sabatella
If by "linked staves" you (as I suspect) mean "changing one, or the master staff, changes the others (which have different octaves, channels, and transpositions (contrabass)), that'd do it, for me.
In reply to If by "linked staves" you … by [DELETED] 1831606
Exactly. Right now the linked staff feature is too limited for this to work - the staves have to be on the same instrument and thus same playback sound, same transposition, etc. But in principle it would be possible to design an extension to the facility.
In reply to Exactly. Right now the… by Marc Sabatella
That would be earth-shattering.
Prayer for a colla parte feature, needed in every genre.
You might have to build a new instrument, say, "warm piano" by recording the two sounds together. Fluid can play it and you can write it on a single staff!