Same instrument, different sounds?
Score 1: https://musescore.com/tdankert/olafur-arnalds-we-contain-multitudes
Score 2: https://musescore.com/user/3852101/scores/4893612
Both scores have a single instrument (piano), and when I open the mscz locally, it appears they are move condigured in the mixer to use the grand piano, same pan, same volume, same everything. yet, when I click the play button they sound different.
Score 1: has a warmth to it
Score 2: is far more "synthetic" and metalic.
I don't know that this is a bug, and tbh this may even be a user error on my part, I don't know the app all that well.. but I've just spent an hour trying to figure out what setting in musescore affected this problem, and I cannot figure it out.
Why do they sound different?!
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They do stem from different MuseScore versions for sure, 3.5.0 and 2.1.0
In reply to They do stem from different… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks, Interesting indeed. I have uploaded the two after conversion
Score 1: https://musescore.com/user/33095228/scores/7552418/s/57Vqp- <--- note the hyphen as last character.. else 404!
Score 2: https://musescore.com/user/33095228/scores/7552412/s/I_FhHq
No change, they still sound different. I'm going to test your next suggestion now ;)
One is using p, eben pp, the other with the default velocity (mf), so soundwise your're comparing apples to oranges
In reply to One starts with p, eben pp,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Correct!
Score 1: only dynamics, no tempo is fine: https://musescore.com/user/33095228/scores/7552472/s/ap8g2c
Score 1: no dynamics only tempo is not: https://musescore.com/user/33095228/scores/7552466/s/TbK8xu
Score 2: update with dynamics is fine: https://musescore.com/user/33095228/scores/7552493/s/lIgxpJ
That's an interesting find.. so the "sound creation engine" softens the "velocity" on the notes by somewhat "muffling" them to achieve the desired result. I now see how this is comparing apple to oranges!
Now I'll be updating a bunch of scores p and pp it is! 😆
So.. I learnt something today! Thanks mate