Better articulation for wind instruments
Often times when I am composing a piece and I am trying to make notes separated, not tied, but the same note, such as a half note f and then another half note f, it just sounds like one long f. I thought using Muse Sounds would help but it doesn't. Could one of you guys tell me how to fix it and make them better tongued/articulated? Or do the devs need to fix that?
Case in point is the Trombone 2 line, in which they have harmony to tuba's bass line and tbone 1's melody - the first two notes need to be separated sounding articulation. (I don't want it to be staccato or marcato or anything like that though)
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We can help better if you post part of a score, rather than an image.
If the first note is in voice 1 and the following note is voice 2, the voice 2 note will sound quite separate. Do you need more separation than that?
(I assume you don’t want to add a short rest note between the notes.)
In reply to If the first note is in… by TDYama
Now that I posted the score it should make more sense. What do you mean by changing the voices? Like putting one note in Tbone 1 and one note in Tbone 2? That's not what I want but if you are talking about something else I don't get it. Sorry, because I'm a beginner to this.
In reply to If the first note is in… by TDYama
Oh I just found how to do it after looking through the pallets, and yeah it worked, but now there's a rest I can't get rid of :(
In reply to Oh I just found how to do it… by LightSpot007
Click on the rest. Click V (not control-v). It will toggle the visibility. It is greyed out on the screen and will not print on the pdf.
Voices are on the main screen. They are the notes with the numbers next to them.
Technically, it is like a second trombone but sound-wise, it accomplishes something without taking too much time.
In reply to Click on the rest. Click V… by TDYama
It worked! Thank you!
https://musescore.com/user/77337232/scores/14886532?share=copy_link
there's the link
ignore the weird names and stuff in a hurry i put those down
In reply to https://musescore.com/user… by LightSpot007
Interesting.
I opened your file in MuS 3.7, changed the trombone sound to 'Trombone expr.' (because of the crecendo hairpin) and this is what I hear (MP3 zipped in the attachment).
It is much better regarding your problem!
In MuS 3 I use the MuseScore_General.sf3 soundfont.
So working with recorded sounds can be a challenge. They are certainly not like the real thing as much as we would like. The last two notes also sound like one. I pulled down all the faders to 0, and lowered the reverb on the trombone. I panned the tuba left and the trombone right. I started to get a tiny bit of separation. Then I changed the trombone sound to a3 and there was more separation. Probably not quite the sound you want. I tried changing the trombone quarter note G to a B. I kind of liked that. Then I switched the trombone and tuba and I liked that even better. I also tried making the dotted half note into a half note tied to a quad dotted 8th note.
It seems to me that if this is primarily to be performed by a live group, I would be tempted to leave it a lone.
If this is primarily just for playback, then there are several choices.
In reply to So working with recorded… by bobjp
This is for me and my friends to play so I think I will leave it alone, but thank you!