More Muse Strings Playback problems, swells on individual notes.
Score attached.
Play just the top line. This Violins 1. The more expressive sound. Note that there are volume swells on most 8th notes. Violins 2 is not much better. Then play just the second line. The second line is violas. Few if any swells. I often have to substitute violas for violin sections because of the swell problem. And no, the effect is not covered up in full orchestra playback.
This can't be subjective. It is so unmusical. Those notes should all flow evenly and musically together. Not stand out as individuals.
While we're at it Change the top line to solo 1 violin. Note that on every half or longer note, playback sounds like it changes bow direction at least once. But this is a different problem.
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Those unwelcomed, undefeatable tail swells are one of my biggest complaints about playback in MuseScore 4. I hear them with strings and with MuseChoir, which is quite nice otherwise.
Sometimes a score is peppered throughout with tail swells. Other times, for no apparent reason, there's just a note or two that ruin an otherwise perfect audio rendering of the score.
In the following score you can hear it in the soprano voice of Measure 12 ... and in the less noticeably after the dotted quarters in the last two measures.
https://musescore.com/user/35880724/scores/11691706
scorster
In reply to Those unwelcomed,… by scorster
Here's an example of LOTS of timing and swell issues in an orchestral score created in MuseScore 4. And I only hear minimal improvements in v4.1) And I'm on a peppy MacBook Air M2 with 24 GB RAM.
https://musescore.com/user/35880724/scores/9690445
In reply to Those unwelcomed,… by scorster
Here's the choral score again, but with the first track soloed and tracks set to NI Kontakt Emotive Strings. There are a number of audio glitches ... but what stands out are the half notes which sound like two distinct quarters of the same amplitude.
https://musescore.com/user/35880724/scores/11694448
scorster