Sound sources in a Musescore file
Hello everyone!
In addition to Musescore's native sound sources, I have several third-party sound sources installed on my Musescore.
Well, I saved my file with a third-party sound source. If I share this file with a friend who doesn't have this sound source, what is the procedure for Musescore or which sound source does Musescore recognize to play the file?
Will it be based on the instrument family?
Thank you very much!
Marcos
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I don't know the answer to your question. Why would you not export a .WAV or .MP3 and provide that to your friend, along with the score?
If your score call for a trumpet, then his MuseScore will load a trumpet from the fonts he has.
If your friend wants to use and listen your score in Musescore, in case your score contains instruments already existing in Musescore, he can hear your score in his Musescore program, but if your score contains instruments not yet existing in the standard Musescore sounds fonts, you must provide your friend with the "soundfont-name"". sf2 or "soundfont-name".sf3 files and "drum-Kit".drm file (in case you are using non standard Drums sounds). Your friend must copy the .sf2 or .sf3 in de directory .../MuseScore3(or 4)/Soundfonts and the file .drm in .../MuseScore3(4 or4)/Styles. After he loads the score in MuseScore, by calling the mixer he can allocate this soundfonts to the instruments used in your score.
In case you use Drums-Kit/Percussion fonts, he has to load the .drm file in the customizing/Edit-Percussion panel.
If you do not provide him with your special soundfonts , he will just hear something but for sure not what is contained in you score.
Just to clarify. If your score uses fonts that your friend doesn't have, his program will still load a like instrument. As in my statement above. I load xml files from Sibelius all the time. MuseScore doesn't have any of the same fonts as Sibelius. But when the xml from Sibelius calls for a trumpet, MuseScore loads a trumpet.
If your score call for an instrument that your friend doesn't have, that's a bit different. Like there is no train whistle in MuseScore. But you might have a font that has it.
If you share it by uploading to musescore.com, (publicly or privately), then your third party sources will be used to generate the mp3 for the upload and your friend will hear them.
In reply to If you share it by uploading… by yonah_ag
Maybe you are right, but i was just testing to upload a score created by myself, which uses piano and Concert Castanets and then I could not hear (as expected by me) the sound of my castanets. The Concert Castanets is my own created instrument as a "Castanets-Drum-Kit" ( castanets-kit.drm ) and a Concert-Castanets.sf2 soundfont file. This 2 files of course do not exist yet in Musescore and also contain not standard MIDI pitches (sounds). When I upload a score to MuseScore.com it will not be requested to load the used soundfonts in case the score contain "no standard" instruments. For this reason, I think, it is normal, that i can not hear the sound of my castanets. The generated .mp3 contains only the sound produced by the piano (as expected to me). Maybe there is a way to upload to MuseScore.com scores containing self created instruments (soundfonts) but until not I did not find the way.
In reply to Maybe you are right, but i… by puggbma
I'm really surprised to hear that as I only ever use custom instruments from SF2 files with my MS3 uploads. I'm new to MS4 and haven't uploaded a score yet so I'll have to run a test to see what happens.
I'm not sure what you mean by non standard MIDI pitches. I thought that they were whole numbers from 0 to 127. Are you using some other values?
In reply to Maybe you are right, but i… by puggbma
Oh no! You're right. It reverts to MS Basic sounds.
In reply to Maybe you are right, but i… by puggbma
I made a custom MS3.7 runtime a couple of months back where I could inject any MP3 file to upload in place of the generated one. I have had to move to MS4 because new installations of MS3.7 can lose upload ability, (which happened to me), so I'll have to look at putting this same MP3 injection into MS4.
I've started another post just in case there's a switch to enable proper generation of MP3 using custom SF2's or VST3's but I'm not hopeful.
In reply to Maybe you are right, but i… by puggbma
Found a fix for this after bobjp confirmed that it worked for him.
See https://musescore.org/en/node/378371
In reply to Found a fix for this after… by yonah_ag
Thanl You very much. I also got my score publish correctly in MuseScore.com. I was trying the Menu: File-> Publish to MuseScore.com directly from MuseScore 4.5.2 . MuseScore 4.5.2 generates automaticaly out of my score a .mp3 File which was taken into account my own ....sf2 Sounfonts included in the .../Musescore/Soundfonts directory and allocated properly in to the mixer. I could hear my composition in the MuseScore.com web (if I listen to it from my MuseScore-User: Scores), but I cannot find my Score when I enter the Tittle in the "find field" od MuseScore.com Web. Maybe I was not filling all the mandatory fields correctly or some information on my side is missing.
In reply to Thanl You very much. I also… by puggbma
If it's not a private score then, if you let me know the title, I can do a search and see what turns up.
In reply to If it's not a private score… by yonah_ag
Thank you very much for your intention to help me. For 30 minutes I was trying to edit the score to see if i have make a mistake in some entries, but i did not find anything. I did not declare it as "private" and i allowe every one to see and download it. The title is: Una pandereta suena" . There are about 6 different scores but none of the one i can see belongs to me. My score is written for piano (only the melody hand) and Castanets. My castanets instrument do not use the tipical 1 percussion line, but 2 lines and the international writing and technic like a castantes solist player is acustom to do.