Incorrect playback of certain notes for harp
A score I am entering has a harp and a glissando is found in a measure which I attempted to enter but the issue is not with creating the glissando itself. In editing the notes I discovered that some of the notes are played back with the wrong pitch. Specifically E3 - B3 are low. If you go note by note, which I did in the first measure of the attached file to duplicate notes in the glissando, you will hear that A2, B2, C3, D3 progress upscale okay, but E3 drops in tone and I believe is not back to proper pitch until C4. The affected note are colored green for easy identification. The same discontinuity does not occur at higher octaves. I did not test other instruments so this may be an issue for the harp only. The discontinuity exists in both playback and edit modes.
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Comments
Are you perhaps using a non-standard soundfont? If so, maybe it's buggy. All seems well with the default soundfont for me. Maybe try closing the file (or program) and reopening if you continue to have problems.
In reply to Are you perhaps using a non… by Marc Sabatella
I have the standard download via the original 3.6.x updates etc. I never installed any custom sound fonts nor would I know how. The program has been opened and closed several times. I can't really hear anything of this minor a consequence but since I discovered it, I wanted to point it out since there could be related issues. But if you can't reproduce then ??? How do I insure my sound fonts are the correct ones?
In reply to I have the standard download… by msokol
Go to View / Synthesizer, and if you see anything listed other than MuseScore_General, delete it.
If you export to MP3, do you still hear the issue? How about if you make a screen recording of the playback? Could be useful to share that. It's been known to happen that certain speakers don't reproduce certain frequencies well, also, certain hearing issues can cause people to not perceive certain frequencies well, and either of these can result in someone perceiving one of the overtones of a note as being the actual fundamental frequency even though it isn't. So it would be good to hear the same thing you are hearing, or at least, to hear it through our own speakers.
In reply to Go to View / Synthesizer,… by Marc Sabatella
I have only the single MuseScore_General sound font. The MP3 export played back the same as the MuseScore playback with the pitch drop as previously described.
In reply to I have only the single… by msokol
Interesting, then next step is to upload that somewhere and share it here so we can see if our speakers/ears perceive it the same way.