SoundFonts
I've downloaded some soundfonts from off the internet.
I came to the conclusion (after listening to a few) that the only way to distribute a score as a MIDI is to include the soundfont that you uses to create the score..
That would require a huge bandwidth and a side app to load the custom soundfont.
MuseScore's Display-> Synthsizer is configured so that a "soundfont" must be used.
Could you guys make it so that the Display -> Synthesizer
Can be set to whatever the normal windows system uses??? instead of loading a "Custom SoundFont"
(with enough custom soundfont scores I could see it requiring every computer to have a 100GigaByte SoundFont directory.)
Comments
The whole point of MIDI is that it is a communications protocol for musical instruments, and is therefore device-independent.
If you are concerned about how your music should sound, then distribute it in WAV or MP3 format.
Actually, distrubitng a score as a MIDI is a terrible idea on almost every count if you care how it sounds or looks. First, MuseScore doesn't play MIDI files, your OS (Windows in your particualr case, apparently, but not everyone uses Windows) does. And every computer's MIDI facilities are different, so it will sound different on every system. And there is no way to send a SoundFont along with a MIDI file and have the recipient's OS play back using that SoundFont, because most OS's don't use SoundFonts at all. SoundFonts are only relevant when playing back within MuseScore. So the only way to have any control at all over the sound would be to ask the recipient to import the MIDI file into MuseScore, and to install the SoundFont you sent. If you're going to do that, why not just distribute the MuseScore file? A *ton* of information would be lost in the process of your exporting your score to MIDI and the recipient then importing it - assuming the recipient even has MuseScore. So it not only won't sound the same as it did for you unless the recipient installs the same SoundFont, it won't look the same, either - not even close - with or without the SoundFont.
If you are a distributing a score so people can hear it, and you want it to sound the same for them as for you, then use an actual audio format - WAV, MP3, etc. If you are distributing it so people can see it and you want it to appear the same for them as for you, then use something like PDF. And if you are distributing the score so others can edit it or otherwise work with it, just send them the MuseScore file (MSCZ), and perhaps a link to the SoundFont you recommend so if it's important to them that they hear it the same as you, they can do so.