Musescore 4 Brass Muting?
In past versions, to mute a brass insturment, one would have to make staff text and edit the properties to make it change the playback sound to muted. in Musescore 4, there is a "Mute" text in the "Text" palette, but it doesn't seem to change the instuments to a muted sound, and even if it did work, there's no way to differentiate between different types of mutes (Straight, Harmon, Etc.). Additionally, the "+" articulation in the "Articulations" Palette should mute when used on a french horn and it does not change the sound, much like the text. Am I missing something, or is this some type of bug?
I do love all of the new improvements, but this is something i'm confused about.
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Same issue here! Just downloaded Musescore 4 and the new sounds and right away I noticed the sounds of the brass voices didn't change at all when I marked mute. I'm guessing they haven't gotten that far? It would also explain why the string tremolos sound terrible. Why would they release a whole new set of voices when they're clearly not ready for prime time?
Apparently, MS4 doesn't support the full use of sound fonts yet. You can see some other discussion about it at these links:
https://musescore.org/en/node/338802
https://musescore.org/en/node/340732
https://musescore.org/en/node/341475
https://musescore.org/en/node/341075
https://musescore.org/en/node/338603
https://musescore.org/en/node/341516
In reply to Apparently, MS4 doesn't… by Tate Shannon
You can add "mute" or "normal" sounds for brass and "arco" or "pizz." for strings under text in the palettes in Musescore 4.0. This will change the sound of the instrument in playback as well.