Strings rise effects

• May 4, 2025 - 05:41

Hello ,
Is there a way to make slow and fast rises with strings ?
Thank you


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If you mean volume, use the Dynamics palette: hairpins and dynamic levels: fff and ppp. If you don't mean dynamics, exactly WHAT do you mean by "rise"?

In reply to by GyorgyGonda

I've never heard it called a "rise" but it seems an apt name.

I would say that you'll need a combination of crescendo (https://handbook.musescore.org/notation/expressive-markings/dynamics), multiple voices (https://handbook.musescore.org/basics/working-with-multiple-voices), and glissando (https://handbook.musescore.org/notation/expressive-markings/arpeggios-a…).

If you can identify how the sound is actually made by real violins, etc. (or if you already know), that might give you a hint as to how to make it in MuseScore.

[About 15 minutes later] Try this: String Rise.mscz I think that more instruments playing more notes would be better. Use all four voices of all four instruments; maybe even add another few staves with additional violins. All of them playing different notes. I don't like the chromatic glissando, but I don't like the portamento one either. Possibly worthwhile to have each instrument's glissando start at different points in time by very small amounts (like 256th note differences)

In reply to by TheHutch

Your fix sounds better using Musesounds strings. The glissando is very smooth. Don't use MS Basic for this.
Still, the portamento plays late instead of sounding from the beginning of the measure to the beginning of the next measure. They need to devise an adjustment for this.

No idea what a rise is, either. I couldn't get Muse sounds to work at all. Try this file. Basic Strings Fast. Not violins, but strings. Portamento ends with a slap, so no good. The idea from the Hutch above about staggering the start times helps smooth out the chromatic glissando. I hear staggered starts in the You-Tube sound.

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rise 1.mscz 23.95 KB

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Not anymore....Y'all have painted yourselves into a corner by offering soundfonts, and Muse sounds, and VST, and symbols palette, etc. While it may have been true earlier that you're just a notation program and nothing else, it's no longer the case. Now you HAVE to supply the capability to produce whatever you have in that there symbols palette. Musescore kinda has no choice if it wants to survive and compete. Others are coming up fast.

DARTH VADER: "If you won't supply the capability, then perhaps someone else will....."

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