Volume and note attacks in musescore.com soundfont playback / and in Export to WAV in Musescore

• Sep 25, 2016 - 21:37

Hi,

I'm curious to know about two things about the musescore.com website playback. I use (since some time) the FluidR3 Mono in Musescore 2.0.2, and, on playback (pushing the playback button in my Musescore, I mean), both the volume and the note attack sounds quite fine. But when I upload to musescore.com, two things ocur:

-The volume or velocity for (for example) "ppp" dynamics (that I adjusted via the inspector on my score previously) sounds quite loud. And I have my cmputer's volume level right (on a 0-100 scale, it's 40).

-The note attacks in the playback on musescore.com is, well, hard - quite to the contrary to the playback in Musescore.

An example score is https://musescore.com/user/259496/scores/2667776 , An example for the playback on my computer (that is: how it sounds in my Musescore) is saved (mp3) on https://clyp.it/0s0axcwi (note, in clyp.it, one have to lower the volume level knob). For the attack issue, if you check bar 21, the eight after the quarter rest sounds softly, nicely. Note: I recorded this Musescore playback (I didn't use the Export to WAV) via a audio recorder installed on my computer that simply records the audio output to my headphones, and saves it to MP3 directly. I didn't post-processed the generated mp3 before uploading to clyp.it.

Both issues I know are minor, but, if musescore.com playback honored the settings (for the volume/dynamics) and did the same attacks that Musescore do, it would be great. The soundfont on the website, is it the same FluidR3 Mono soundfont than the one used in Musescore?

Sorry if this was asked before, is that's the case, tell me which thread discuss these things.

PS: I did a test on the "Export to WAV" - after selecting the "Save to Score" button in the View->Synthetiser page. It sounds exactly the same as the musescore.com's playback (with the two issues above). So perhaps that's the explanation? if so, why this option cannot honor the same playback that Musescore generates when pushing the play button?


Comments

As you said in your PS, MuseScore.com playback is just a WAV export from MuseScore. When export audio, MuseScore will do a peak normalisation on the output. That's why if you have only ppp in your score, it will sound more or less the same than if you have only fff. The attack is also a by product of this process.

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