Musescore Mixer and Playback sounds

• Jul 28, 2017 - 22:54

So I am having some issues. I installed a soundfont I really like, and it sounds really good. The only problem is whenever I make a new score and pick instruments, the instrument I pick doesn't match up with the correct sound. Like a Piano will play back with the piccolo sound and a Bass Guitar will play back with a French horn sound and so on. I am wondering if anyone knows how to change what sound is picked by default and have it set that way permanently? It's not too much trouble to have to go into the mixer and change every instrument I want to use to the right one, but it would be simpler if I could just save it this way.


Comments

Two ways to get what you want might be:

1) set up a custom instruments.xml file to tell MuseScore the association between instruments and sounds in your soundfont, then tell MuseScore to use your customi version in Edit / Preferences / Score

or

2) edit the soundfont to rearrange the voice assignments to make it General MIDI comaptible

In reply to by King_Bradford

I can't really help for 2) except to suggest you do a search for soundfont editors and information on that topic. For 1), I can suggest you go to Edit / Preferences / Score, find the instruments.xml file that is already configured there, open it in a text editor, study it, and then see if that's enough to get you started. Should just be a matter of changing patch numbers to match whatever your favorite soundfont came up with. Or maybe just email the person who developed that soundfont and ask them if they ever considered making a GM-compatible version. Seems crazy that people wouldn't.

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