Better Sounds for "TamTam" "Peitsche" or "Bass Drum"

• Oct 18, 2014 - 20:50

Hi, first I want to praise your new Sounds for Percussion and Drums, they are really nice than those in Version 1.3.
Unfortunately there are two Instruments, that dont own the right Sound:
The "Tam-Tam" and the "Peitsche", or in English language the "Whip", I think.
The "Tam-Tam" sounds like a China Cymbal that is often used in modern music. This doesnt sound similar to the sound of a 80' TamTam, because a big TamTam has got a very heavy and powerful sound, wheres you should difference between big TamTams and small ones. The art of the sound varies with the size of the TamTam. This video should show how a TamTam or Gong can sound :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gab8TUatnEI

The "Whip" sounds more like a woodblock. This sound has got nothing in common with the sound of a whip.

What is realy pity is that the Bass Drum just has got a short and curbed sound. This sound is right if you are use it for military Marches ore something else, but there are pieces that are using a big sound that is not curbed. This video should show the posibilitys of a Gran Cassa (watch 1.49):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwq72FXZ5SA
Pieces like Rebonds, composed by Iannis Xenakis are showing this, too.

Despite all that there are a lot of improvements in Musescore 2.0 beta in the compare to Musescore 1.3.

Regards

Edit: same mistake at "Rahmentrommel", "Fingeerbecken", "Glocken", "Glockenstab", "Glockenplatte", "Klangschale", "Tubo", "Metall-Kastangnetten", "Ambos", "Kastangetten", "Donnerblech", "Holz-Windspiel", "Bambus-Windspiel", "Metall-Windspiel", "Glas-Windspiel", "Muschel-Windspiel", "Tuned Gong", "Bass Drums", "Becken". The last two instruments do not have any sounds and are from the category Marching. And please make the "Becken" from ungestimmtes Schlagwerk more powerfull, brighter and stronger, maybe something that produces morer the sound of A due Cymbels.


Comments

Basically we have had to make the best of a bad job with the default soundfont as none of the instruments you mention are part of either the GM or GM2 sound set.

It is envisaged that MuseScore 2 beta users will supplement the default Fluid soundfont with soundfonts containing the missing instruments, using MuseScore 2 beta's facility for using more than one soundfont.

If you need more information on how to do this, come back here.

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