Control Tremolo Speed
Hi!
I'm trying to transcribe a music I like and at the end, there are some slow strings making long notes with a tremolo. I was wondering if you could precisely control the tremolo speed on Musescore.
Note that I tried to sample the slow string already in a tremolo, but obviously its speed depends on the pitch which is no good either.
Comments
If you need full control over such things and don't want to meddle with the Piano Roll Editor, then:
1. Disable playback for the marking
2. Add an additional instrument
3. Write out the playback interpretation you want
4. Turn the instrument invisible.
In reply to If you need full control… by jeetee
Do you mean tremolo or vibrato?
Vibrato is a variation of pitch at a degree and speed usually left to the player's discretion or the MD's direction (but sometimes its presence or absence is indicated by "vib." or "senza vib." respectively) and there is no indication on the note itself. In Musescore it is probably best achieved by choosing a soundfont that models it to your taste.
On the other hand , tremolo requires either repeated articulation of a single note or alternation between different specific pitches. These have standard notations. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tremolo.
Within that, there are different interpretations. With "Measured tremolo" the notes are re-articulated or alternated at specific rates. MuseScore's playback follows that interpretation and gives the user precise control of the tremolo speed, albeit at a limited number of rates.
However, in another interpretation of notated tremolo, "unmeasured tremolo" (often indicated by three or more tremolo strokes), the rate is left to the player and gives a subtly different effect, especially when several players are playing tremolos at different rates as in a string section for example. I think this effect is difficult to achieve in MuseScore, but someone else may have found ways to do it.