Did you recently add an update yesterday?
Date: 5/5/20
I opened up musescore and it acted like I had installed it asking me language preferences.
I noticed that the sound completely sucks compared to before this occurred.
I need to install the previous version again without the update as the update has destroyed all
my sounds. When I export the file to a wav now, it doesn't sound the same. It sounds like shit!
Comments
There was no update yesterday and of there were MuseScore won't install without asking your permission
As mention, MuseScore is incapable of updating itself automatically, it can notify you an update is available but it requires you to agree to a bunch of stuff, no way even an errant cat walking across your keyboard would be likely to have done that :-)
Most likely you have two versions of MuseScore installed and you opened the wrong version today. The sounds generally improve with each update but there haven't been any major changes in over five years. So unless you accidentally opened a version from before 2015, it's probably something else going on. like maybe, you had installed some custom soundfonts.
So, how are you starting MuseScore, and if you go to Help / About, what version does it report? What soundfonts do you see listed in View / Sytnthesizer on the Fluid and Zerberus tabs? And can you attach one of the scores in which you are perceiving a change to the sound>?
I figured out what was going wrong and I want to thank you all for your quick assistance to my post.
The issue was created from clipping. The musescore project was a large jazz band arrangement 7 instruments each on their own staff/track. When I played the project in musescore, it sounded fine. However when I exported to a wave flie, the louder parts compressed badly, ie the volume went down significantly.. I opened up preferences and noticed that the level was clipping on the synth, so I lowered it until it was green. Also before I adjusted the synth level, if I deselected normalize audio, I was getting a bad noise artifact. After I lowered the synth volume, I could export with normalize audio off and it was fine.
I have exported this arrangement many times before with no problem which I guess is why I thought there was some kind of update. Would it be possible to add a meter from the synth to the tool panel that runs along the top of the screen so you can see if your signal is clipping in the synth?
Despite my earlier complaint which was out of frustration, I love Musescore and it is my go-to music notation software for all my projects. Thanks again.
In reply to I figured out what was going… by Ragtimer