Voices and Playing

• May 11, 2009 - 02:51

I am using 0.9.4

I have made a score from scratch for an a cappella group. I selected Vocals in the instruments and then Voice, Soprano,Alto,Tenor and Bass so I have a five part stave. I have changed the tenor to a base clef.

I downloaded the Unison sf2 file and also a Steinway Piano.sf2 files. I have tried both as the Soundfont.

Is is possible to get all the parts to play rather than just the voice part. If I select Union I get a hahaha sound for the Voice and if I select Steinway I get a nice piano which is OK. I would be just to get happy to get piano for all parts if possible.

I have also tried to play out the score through midi to a Roland KR 500 but just get silence. I will have to do some more research to see how midi works.

Ta

keith

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• May 11, 2009 - 18:08

The SoundFont must be a General MIDI SoundFont that defines all 128 instruments. The old SoundFont for the Winodws version of MuseScore only defined one instrument (000 Piano). The new SoundFont has definitions for each of the instruments (000-127). It just uses the same piano sound for each instrument which keeps the size of the SoundFont very small (less than 50 KB).

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• May 11, 2009 - 20:18

Thanks David

What instrument numbers in MIDI are the Vocals i.e voice, soprano, alto, tenor etc?

I am just getting started in MIDI

As I understand it when I create a score a MIDI number will be linked to the type of instrument selected e.g sax, piano etc.

Can you change the numbers after you have created the score?

keith

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• May 11, 2009 - 17:24

TimGM6mb.sf2 works for me, I got it from a Timidity site,

however 'merlin_vienna.sf2' didn't work in Musescore or Timidity.

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