Soundfont does not change its pitch on playback
I have created a soundfont which I cannot attach but I shared the link below. When I use it in Musescore, however, changing the note does not change the playback pitch: it keeps playing the middle C however I change the note (pitch, duration,etc). I am not sure if it's because my audio sample is too short in duration, but when played on Polyphone, the pitch can change when played on the virtual keyboard.
Soundfont: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lH7eGSesRX1ihf-GzP9Tz3h-JDgBoO8E/view?…
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Comments
How short are your samples?
Can you post a full screenshot of Polyphone showing:
1) A sample
2) An instrument
3) A preset
I don't have access to Polyphone at the moment so I can't inspect your soundfont. Your preset names are a bit unusual, (1 or 2 letters each), but I guess that they mean something to you. Here you can see my more descriptive preset names listed after your shorter names:
In reply to How short are your samples?… by yonah_ag
Here is one of my sample, instrument and preset. The names are just the IPA of the vowel I pronounced.
![EI3.png]()
![EI3instrument.png]()
![EI3preset.png]()
In reply to Here is one of my sample,… by wilson871
I have tried re-recording one sample so that the sample enters Polyphone directly without having to be converted from .aac file to .wav file. The problem still ensues, where Musescore plays the middle C (60) note whatever I enter to the score.
In reply to I have tried re-recording… by wilson871
I deleted all the instrument parameters and add the preset parameters; it seems to work
In reply to Here is one of my sample,… by wilson871
• Your samples are definitely long enough.
• Did you set the root note for each sample? Seen as 60 (C) in the sample above.
• Your instrument and preset parameters are very different to anything I have seen before. They just look too 'neat' with all those 0.001 values. Usually there is something in the volume hold, decay, sustain, release fields.
• You could check a working soundfont for comparison such as the free ones on SoundFonts4U. Just note the files size before using because some of them are large, 100+ MB.
https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
(Sorry that I can't be more specific but my PC is dead so no Polyphone)
In reply to • Your samples are… by yonah_ag
Thanks for the comments. I have finally fixed the problem. Will definitely consider changing parameters to improve soundfont quality. Thanks again!