Muse Sounds Questions
Hi, gang!!!
I'm testing the last MuseScore 4.0.0 Portable AppImmage to Linux, inside my Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1 LTS OS.
Also, I downloaded the Muse Hub with all the instruments packages (a huge 13 GB set!!!).
Simply, awesome.
But... I'm a human being and I always have the "bad" idea to have questions:
1) Is there, or Will be there some deep pdf help manual about the internal cryptic structure of Muse Hub? How it works? Can we modify something about the sounds? Can we add or erase something? etc. I'm talking about some way to edit the sounds (like "Polyphone" does with soundfont files).
2) Can we "transport", with a simply "copy and paste" action, the whole giant instrument set from a computer to another, without to have to download it again?
3) Will be there some way to control the audio effects in the new MuseScore Mixer? I'm talking about reverb, echo, chorus, etc.
That's all, folks!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM CHILE!!!
Juan
Comments
There are plans to publish specifically for the new Muse Sounds architecture, but I'm not sure that will include any actual tools for editing existing sounds.
Right now there is no supported way to just transfer files between computer. A few people have tried, but it's tough to get everything set up exactly right. As a start, copy /srv/muse-hub, but also you'll need /usr/lib/libMuseSamplerCoreLib.so.
Effects are supported in Windows and macOS right now, with Linux expected to come soon.
In reply to There are plans to publish… by Marc Sabatella
Also, see https://musescore.org/en/node/337865 - looks like also an apparently empty but not actually folder /var/lib/MuseSampler
In reply to Also, see https://musescore… by Marc Sabatella
You can copy Musesound from one Linux machine to another
-copy complete /srv
-copy /usr/lib/libMuseSamplerCoreLib.so
-copy (or create) /var/lib/MuseSampler/.config
in this hidden file, put the location , default
/srv/muse-hub/downloads/Instruments/
I guess you could move the sounds to another location if you change the path in the .config file, but i did not test it.
Of course, sounds will not update.
Perhaps a small rsync script from the computer running muse-hub.service.
In reply to You can copy Musesound from… by graffesmusic
Thank you so much for your data!!!
BTW:
I don't know if this is a known bug or is something wrong in my installation.
I can hear a noticeable out-of-phase between the Left and Right audio channels with most of the new Muse Sounds instrument sounds.
I'm tempted to think, it is intended to give a very "nice" stereo space effect.
But, if it was the reason, I think it is a wrong idea, because almost all instruments (organ and piano are special cases) produce monophonic sounds (let's say, a flute has only one spatial point from where the sound is produced).
The out-of-phase issue is clearly noticeable when we set the final audio amplifier mode to Mono sound (which is a very good test to any kind of sound). Comparing the Mono and Stereo amplifier modes, we can hear an ugly lost of sounds from the instruments.
Maybe, it is only a Linux issue? ??? I don't know.