Musescore 4 and editing dynamics
Something I really liked in Musescore 3 was the ability to alter dynamic markings. Changing the velocity of a forte marking in the inspector could make it play back mezzo forte. Now these dynamic markings don't have any settings for playback in the properties tab. Why isn't it there? Is there something I'm missing?
Also, I'm not sure whether or not this was also the case in v3, but how come the playback can't decrescendo then suddenly play a louder dynamic on the next note? For example, a measure in piano decrescendos but the first beat of the next measure is forte. It sounds like it crescendos to me.
Also also, what happened to the ability to make two clefs of the same instrument different dynamics? I remember marking the bass clef as forte and treble as forissimo and hearing the difference in v3, but I can't get them to be different in v4.
Looking for help with all of these. Thanks!
Comments
See:
https://musescore.org/en/node/334701
especially:
https://musescore.org/en/node/334701#Velocity_controls
and:
https://musescore.org/en/node/334701#Range-control_for_dynamics-symbols
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Jm6stringer
In other words, no. 😐
I'm getting slightly lost in the jargon and nuance of this discussion. Somewhere (can't find the thread, now) we were promised a shiny new graphical interface in MuSc 4 to adjust the playback effect of dynamic markings - i.e. how much they actually affect playback volume (or velocity, if you prefer). I'm now up to 4.3.2 and haven't seen it yet. There are oblique references to this in the announcement of 4.4. Are we actually going to get this? Right now, the difference between (say) p and pp is way to extreme in Soundfonts.
Still no news on this topic? I'm up to 4.5 and still can't find a way to adjust the playback volume associated with a dynamic marking.
In reply to Still no news on this topic?… by charles-lambert
I see many people have requested this for some time, but I'm guessing MuseScore's devs have prioritized more pressing issues (bug fixes, high-profile features). That's understandable.
Choosing each dynamic mark's score-wide volume would be fine with me, but some users would probably like per-symbol control. It all depends on how much you expect MuseScore to behave like a sequencer. Which it's not, really—it's primarily a notation app, for publishing, not playback. In the past, at least, playback in notation apps has been considered more of a tool for checking for mistakes than a means of creating convincing performances. 😉
Meanwhile, MS's dynamics playback has improved. "f" (forte) used to be way too loud, and "p" (piano) so soft you could barely hear it, etc. Until they give us dynamics control, MuseScore's devs have obviously adjusted the built-in values so they don't cover such an unrealistically wide range. So that's good.