Sustain kills sound
I have imported midi file to MS 1.3 Rev 5702 on MAcBook Pro OS 10.9.4 and the sound was acceptable .
Then I saved it as mscz file to use it on iPad 2 with MS SongBook, but
the long lasting tunes on MAC grow into endless sustain on iPad that drowns the following tunes :-(
Can anybody tell me what to do to get rid of this sustain with MuseScore Songbook on iPad ?
Lotte
Example file appended
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Christmas time is here-Part.mscz | 3.36 KB |
Comments
You may have encountered the midi-to-notation translation snafu.
A midi file is basically a set of instructions enabling a machine to play music: it specifies various parameters - like when to play a note, for how long to play it, at what volume, what instrument is used, etc. Concepts like meter (eg. time signatures), accidentals, chord progressions, harmony, etc. mean nothing to a machine.
Midi files imported into score writers like MuseScore most often need cleaning up to appear 'playable' to a human tasked with actually performing the piece. Things like redundant ties, wacky key signatures/accidentals, etc. - all these need to be modified for the human musician to readily comprehend. Such is typical for translations from 'machine readable' to 'human readable' formats.
Since these forums deal with the MuseScore scorewriting software - the portable apps might have another forum on Musescore.com - I can't tell why your mscz file does not sound as good on the iPad 2 as it does on your MacBook, but why not just play the midi file on the iPad 2 ?
However, if you cannot listen to mscz files created from imported midi files on the iPad and want to use MS SongBook on the iPad to listen to this piece, you may have to 'clean up' all the reverb on the midi using MuseScore 1.3.
See if this 'cleaned up' mscz attachment works on your IPad2 with MS SongBook.
Regards.
In reply to Midi vs. Notation by Jm6stringer
every note seems to start ok, but reverb/continue for a long time, creating a humongous cacophony after just a few bars
How to clean up the reverbs in the whole piece? Is that available in the nightly too?
In reply to same on Android MS SOngbook (Galaxy Note Pro 12.2) by sejtam
Can you attach a file?
In reply to Midi vs. Notation by Jm6stringer
Even cleaner version. Right click a note, select all similar elements. Right click again, note properties, set ontime and offtime offsets to automatic. Save and loaded MuseScore Songbook 1.4.1 and it sounds good.
In reply to Even cleaner version. Right by [DELETED] 5
Thank you all for your comments and hints.
Following the procedure from "laconic" I found some offsets set to "User".
I switched them to "auto" and the bad sound was gone !!!
Feeling so much better listening now to the tunes and not to a jungle of sounds ;-)
In reply to Clean up the file works fine ! by Lotte Loth
the playback is now smooth. Funny though how MS for Mac handles this correctly, and a score then saved from that does not play the same in MS SB. Shouldn't the software treat the mscz file contents the same?
In reply to same here by sejtam
I have not used MS SongBook, though as a stalwart MuseScore 1.3 user, I took a look at the original 'Christmas time is here-Part.mscz' file and saw the typical midi import - ties all over the place, etc.
I cleaned the notation up a bit and upon playback in MuseScore 1.3, some of that sound which was 'splashing over' into subsequent measures, was mitigated, and the score sounded ok in MuseScore 1.3. (I'm using Windows OS.)
Lasconic had to further delete some 'User' (not mine) offsets to make it play correctly in SongBook.
I, along with you, wonder if there's a difference in the playback engine for OS's like Mac/Windows compared to iPads/Androids; and whether we should keep an eye (or ear) out for this when we share scores among the various player hardware.
Regards.
In reply to @sejtam... Hmmm...me too. by Jm6stringer
MuseScore Songbook app and MuseScore app for Android / iOS are using the code of what will become MuseScore 2.0. That's why there can be some difference in the playback.
If you want to try it, the MuseScore app is free
Android http://musescore.com/android
iOS http://musescore.com/ios
In reply to MuseScore Songbook app and by [DELETED] 5
What is the difference between MuseScore Songbook app and MuseScore app?
And since when is it free?
In reply to What is the difference by Jojo-Schmitz
For a couple of days. Announcement to come.
The MuseScore app works online and can display/play the scores from MuseScore.com. The MuseScore Songbook app can also open any mscz files (created with 1.3 for the moment) and store them for offline use. FAQ to come to.