General paging response problem - trashes first play-through on Mac - please read
In 3.5.0 on Mac.
I leave MuseScore constantly open. I never close it except when installing OS or MS upgrades; many, many scores open (but not dirty) at once. If I do not use it for many hours (e.g., overnight) and then load up a new score of many parts, and start playing it, the sound is degraded horribly by what sounds like old radio static -- total hash.
Once I let it play for a few measures, and go back to the beginning, it performs adequately. Having worked in the guts of paging systems on couple of operating systems, I recognize this as paging overhead because of a working set paged out. It would be helpful if MS went through a section to be played as quickly as possible and touched all soundfont pages it expects to use.
It is embarrassing in this day and age.