Question to articulation mapping of VST libraries in MS4.x

• Aug 25, 2023 - 14:42

When the concept of MS4 has been announced quite a while ago I remember the mentioning of articulation mapping. A VST library usually has a lot of different samples for a single instrument, e.g. staccato, mercato, tremolos, etc which are selected e.g. by key switches.

A Staccato note would be mapped to a different sound sample than a sustained note rather than simply shortening the duration but using the same sample. This would require to have a mapping between instrument / articulation / sound sample.

Is this still on the roadmap?

Thanks,
Robert


Comments

In reply to by graffesmusic

Well, MuseScore is free. MuseScore is open-source. MuseScore has an easy-to-use score sharing website (although its usability is rapidly declining). Frankly, these are the only reasons I still use it; I don’t own the full version of Dorico. I should probably stop trying to help MuseScore’s development by comparing it to Dorico. Nobody wants that. There’s no general purpose forum for notation software. I’m missing a lot with Dorico, too! And lots of this stuff is already a thing in MuseScore. I’m very curious what MuseScore’s values are.

In reply to by gualtiero.chiapello

To integrate them with musesounds apparently hahahaha

I wouldn't have a problem with musesounds if users could make their own 'profiles' / behaviors for it...
Where you can change the behavior of 'slurs' which notes are more 'accented' so that the interpretation can be properly
- baroque
- classical
- romantic
- 1920/30's jazz
- bebop
- metal

etc...

My main problem with musesounds is that it's limited to 1 single interpretation that cannot easily be changed. I understand that for the time being, that is the best way to get an 'out of the box' solution for most people who use musescore (classically oriented musicians who just want a general idea of how things sound, and some jazz musicians who don't give a rats behind about playback besides hearing chords/intervals accurately with some idea of timbre)

But the way they've committed to it over a more customizable approach is annoying. Business is business is though, I suppose.

In reply to by Asher S.

2 Things:
Usually muse partners are well established companies... I'd expect it to be more about making your own sample set work well with the musesounds engine... So unless you have a sample set that already works well as samples in a VST, I'd find it hard pressed to get one's foot in the door as a muse partner.

Secondly, Musesounds' largest flaw at the moment is its lack of flexibility. Which is why complaints are piling up about the piano roll and automation... getting the behavior to mimic the very individual subtleties that occur in jazz styles (for example) would probably be a lot less straight forward outside of certain swing approaches and phrasing guidelines. Contextualizing doubletime, the kinds of accents that occur through different kinds of lines, note length trends etc... Would be a monster to program. Not unlike their solo strings patches which are already very nice for many 'classical' contexts.

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