NOOB - How to make a violin sound real?
Hi, I'm totally new to music and don't know a lot of what the italian words and symbols mean and I try to go to google as often as possible but I've been at this problem a while. How do you make a violin sound real? I'm looking for the quivering sound that a violin makes on a drawn out note. Right now its just the same tone no change no quiver. Slurs, ties, tempo, tremolo, pizz., articulations, trill, chorus, reverb and any italian symbol does nothing. Here's an example of what I'd like to hear... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TbQuBGH9E .... when she actually starts playing at :32 and throughout the song she does it. What's it called? Can musescore play it back or no? Also, random question what are soundfonts and what do they do? Thank you!!!
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Hi there, and welcome to MuseScore :)
The sound you are looking for is called vibrato.
There is actually a special controller for this in MIDI, but MuseScore's playback facilities are still in their infancy as the program developers have been concentrating on getting printed output correct, so I don't think it is currently enabled.
Soundfonts are libraries of instrument samples. The next major version of MuseScore - 2.0 will support the use of more than one soundfont at a time, so if you can find one with a violin which has vibrato you would be able to use that one for your violin voice.
HTH
Michael
In reply to Hi there, and welcome to by ChurchOrganist
Even though MuseScore can currently load only soundfont at a time, each soundfont can have hundreds of different samples in it, so assuming you find a soudfont that has the sample you want in it already (violin with vibrato), you should be good to go. Consult the MuseScore handbook (either via Help menu in MuseScore, or via the link at right of this page) for more on using different soundfonts.
Bottom line: if you find and load a soundfont that includes a sample of a violin playing with vibrato, then yes, MuseScore can play it. MuseScore doesn't know or care what the samples are that it plays - it just plays them.
Perhaps a phaser would be ideal?
In reply to Perhaps a phaser would be ideal? by chen lung
Only for an electric violin!
A phaser gives quite a different sound from the vibrato that the Modulation controller adds.
Although a legitimate electronic effect, it probably shouldn't be used in classical music - unless you're playing Stockhausen :)