How to make playback tempo changes within a score in musescore 4
The playback on my score is changing midway from 120 to 90. There are no metronome markings on the score. This is just a playback issue. I know how to undock the playback bar and know how to adjust the playback tempo. But for some reason, part of my score plays at 120, then suddenly drops to 90. This might be because I cut and past sections I created in musescore 3? (but I've been doing that a lot and not having this issue). Not sure, but I just want the whole thing to play at the same tempo. Can you tell me how to fix this?
The below attachments shows how when playing back up to m.5 it plays back at 120. But when it gets to m.7 it drops to 90 and stays that way for the rest of the piece.
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This forum can help you with a .mscz attachment, not with two images.
In reply to This forum can help you with… by Ben Lindeboom
ok thanks i just attached it!
There might be invisible tempo texts
In reply to There might be invisible… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hmm, I do have "show invisible" checked under "view" and don't see any tempo texts. I haven't put any tempo text in the score, at least not intentionally.
Here is the mscz file
In reply to Here is the mscz file by Emi Tamura
I don't have MuS 4 but I can open the score with 3.7. There are no tempo changes.
When I extract the mscx file from your score and look at it, there is no tempo tag, so it is played at the default value of 120. The cause cannot therefore be the score itself.
You should give us more details about the computer (CPU type, operating system, RAM, sound card). Does your computer fulfill the system requirements: https://musescore.org/en/download#System-requirements
In reply to Here is the mscz file by Emi Tamura
There indeed is no tempo change, it plays with 120BPM all the way, even in 4.2.0
I just saved it, closed it, restarted my whole computer and opened it back up, and it plays just fine now at 120! So weird, I was fighting with this for a while, just didn't think to restart the computer. I did save/close/reopen last night and still was doing the same thing. I have a brand new macbookpro. (MacOS 14.1.1, 24GB, Apple M2) which is why I just didn't think my actual laptop was causing it somehow. I also have the most recent musescore 4.2. Thank you for reminding me of the #1 fix for any computer problem: Shut everything down and restart!
In reply to I just saved it, closed it,… by Emi Tamura
I was able to play your score in MuseScore 4.2 without incident on a 24GB, Apple M2 w/ 2TB SSD. Difference here is MacOS Ventura 13.5.2 rather than Sonoma 14.1.1, like you.
It's nice to know that MuseScore 4 is generally working well for you under Mac OS Sonoma. There have been mixed reviews on MuseScore and MacOS Sonoma so I've been holding back on upgrading my OS.
scorster
In reply to I was able to play your… by scorster
Oh wow good to know. And actually I'm having more playback issues where certain measures just didn't playback. But this time saving, closing, reopening worked. However I'm also noticing that the new sounds I downloaded won't play random passages while MS Basic will. Closing and opening didn't fix it either. I downloaded the new sounds after I upgraded to Sonoma so it's hard to say if Sonoma is causing it or not. The Sonoma issues link you shared though... I do notice that it takes about a full 10 seconds to open a file (but not a minute). And I do get these scary "musescore is not responding" or "unexpectedly" whatever messages that I just click ignore and it doesn't shut down thankfully. But I can say that yes, it is generally working and nothing catastrophic so far!