How to increase volume of musescore without editing score
Musescore is a lottttt more quiet than the rest of my computer. Is there any way to increase the volume of the application itself without putting dynamics in the score?
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see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/play-mode#play-panel and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/synthesizer
In reply to see https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh man, i might as well read the whole handbook while im at it
In reply to Oh man, i might as well read… by bommer1234
Good plan ;-)
I'm pretty sure you won't regret it.
In reply to see https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hmm.. pressing f11 doesnt pull up anything, view - synthzier not there, probaly cause im using a mac
In reply to Hmm.. pressing f11 doesnt… by bommer1234
No, synthesizer should show on Mac too. Maybe not on pressing F11 though
In reply to Hmm.. pressing f11 doesnt… by bommer1234
Hmm.. pressing f11 doesnt pull up anything... probaly cause im using a mac
From the handbook:
![Volume.png]( "Volume.png")
There may be a volume control on your main screen. In Windows 10 there is an option to Open Volume Mixer that allows you to control the volume of each application. Right click the speaker icon to see it. I don't know about other OS's.
Reading the Handbook is a good idea anyway. At least you can become familiar with the terminology and can find what you are looking for in it with more success.
In reply to There may be a volume… by mike320
is there a pdf for the handbook?
In reply to is there a pdf for the… by bommer1234
Yes, https://musescore.org/en/download-handbook
In reply to is there a pdf for the… by bommer1234
I should have mentioned, the handbook does not mention operating system items like the Windows 10 mixer, you need to be familiar with your operating system to know about options like that.
Using the PDF handbook is a very good idea, IMHO it's easier to find things in that the website.
FWIW, MuseScore should by default be about the same volume as other programs. of cours,e if the score itself you are playing is marked "ppp", then the music is going to be quiet. But for the average score, it should should about the same as anything else. If you are finding otherwise, it might be you accidentally lowered the volume earlier. Wouldn't hurt to do Help / Revert to factory Settings. And if your Mac provides a system mixer, make sure MuseScore isn't turned down.
Aside from that that, if you do find yourself still needing to tweak the volume, View / Synthesizer contains is the global volume for the program as a whole, View / Play Panel provides a temporary override for the current score only and for the duration of the current session only.
In reply to FWIW, MuseScore should by… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc!!!
I used the "standard" procedure, with Playing Panel, and adjusted the general app volume (I work Musecore 2.2.1 into Linux, UbuntuStudio 16.04 LTS), but... The volumen come back to some "default" lower volume value than I adjusted. How can I get some personal volume value which MuseScore always follows???
In reply to Hi, Marc!!!… by jotape1960
After you adjust the volume click "Set Default" to make it the default volume. Keep in mind that if you use Load from score, the volume will be set the what was in the score if it is different.
In reply to After you adjust the volume… by mike320
Hi, Mike!!!
Thank you so much for your data!!! Now It works!!!
But, as an external issue, it seems to me that, into Linux systems, the MIDI world works with less general volume than audio and video world. I've been checked it, using two other Linux MIDI apps (RoseGarden and VLC MediaPlayer) and... All MIDI works sound with less volume than mp3, or other audio sources.
I don't know if this is the same into Windows or Mac (a lot of time that I don't work on it).
BTW: Please, remember MuseScore still has an "issue" about dynamics: it doesn't work with long notes!!! If you have a whole note into a bar, and you expect that MuseScore change that whole note volume along its time... NOT!!! It won't work. the whole note will be sound with just one volume, all the time it takes. We will have to wait to future editions to a full fixed on this. That's life!!!
In reply to Hi, Mike!!!… by jotape1960
Glad to help. You are absolutely correct about volume changes on a note. I look forward to it being fixed.
In reply to Hi, Mike!!!… by jotape1960
It's not that MIDI is inherently quieter than audio and video. But it is true that most commercially-produced audio and video has compression and normalization applied to it so that it is more uniformly loud, where real music is only loud when a lot of people are playing loudly at once. Consider, a solo guitar piece will never be nearly as loud as a symphony orchestra playing a fortissimo passage. So the guitar piece won't sound as loud in MuseScore, but a commercial recording of a solo guitar pump up the volume to make it as loud, so you don't have to adjust your stereo every time that piece comes on the radio.
In reply to It's not that MIDI is… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc!!!
Yes, you're absolutely right about audio processing into radio and commercial recording music (I've been working inside that world since 1974 so... I know "something" about that).
But, I'm talking about the MIDI peak average of the music from the MIDI cryptic part of the PC. It is seen as -3 or -6 db peak average (we expect it reachs 0 db).
Maybe it is related to the different audio cards self parameters of the computing jungle???
???
In reply to Hi, Marc!!!… by jotape1960
It will presumably reach the nominal maximum if you have an infinite number of instruments all playing simultaneously at the maximum velocity with their channel volumes all turned up to the maximum. But real world music will always be less loud than that.