Prevent "duplicate" notes from being much louder
I'm writing some choir scores for practice. Sometimes the tenor and the bass, for example, touch in on the same notes and during playback these are then played back twice(?) as loud which causes the song to sound rather weird in my opinion. Is there a way to make them... not sound like that?
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Can you confirm that bass and tenor are written on two different staves?
In reply to Can you confirm that bass and by [DELETED] 5
That they are. I've used a regular SATB setup.
select one of the notes, right-click, poperties and set velocity to 0
In reply to select one of the notes, by Jojo-Schmitz
That would result in silence if I wanted to listen to only one of the voices through muting in the mixer. I use this for practicing my voice and share it with others in the choir so they can use it for that as well. If I set velocity of "duplicate" tenor notes (I'm a bass), then a tenor would get silence if they listened to just their voice.
In reply to That would result in silence by Svish
then set both to half the original value?
In reply to then set both to half the by Jojo-Schmitz
My understanding is that this sort of effect is caused when a synthesizer tries to plays the same exact wave form twice at the same time. So another fix might be to set the two voices to use different sounds.
Another option is to simply have to copies of the score - one with the doubled notes muted so it plays back well when played normally, and another with all notes at regular velocity to be used when soloing one part.
In reply to My understanding is that this by Marc Sabatella
That is probably correct. Unfortunately It'd be difficult to have different sounds for each voice, as they are all voices. I'm using the Yamaha Grand Piano sound (or what it was called) for all of them.
In reply to That is probably correct. by Svish
It is Choir, so why not using "Ahh Choir"? I don't have that issue with this sound...
Might also be a matter of the soundfont used?
In reply to It is Choir, so why not using by Jojo-Schmitz
Cause I can't stand that Ahh sound, hehe. Also I'm very used to hearing the piano sound from choir practices, so I prefer to stick with that.
In reply to then set both to half the by Jojo-Schmitz
Would still be weird when listening to just a single voice. Not as bad as if there was silence, but yes, don't think I want that. I was more wondering if there was a way of adjusting how MuseScore plays back these duplicates.
In reply to Would still be weird when by Svish
I find using strings (violin, viola, cello, bass) works well. Sounds more like voices than a piano does, anyhow - real sustain.
I don't think Fluidsynth (the engine responsible for musescore's playback) has special facilities to avoid this basic synthesis issue, but you might try playng with ontime offsets in nte properties so the notes aren't actually simultaneous.
In reply to I find using strings (violin, by Marc Sabatella
Good tip! I really do prefer the piano sound, but at least the strings sounds a lot better than the Ahh Choir.
In reply to Good tip! I really do prefer by Svish
MuseScore has something if the notes are on the same staff but different voices, but apparently nothing for two notes in different staves. I suggest making a proper feature request in the issue tracker : http://musescore.org/en/project/issues
In reply to MuseScore has something if by [DELETED] 5
I'll do that :)