Articulation Playback
Is there an option to turn off the playback of articulations?
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Is there an option to turn off the playback of articulations?
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Not an option as such, but you can edit the instruments.xml file, which controls most aspects of this.
In reply to Not an option as such, but by Marc Sabatella
Alright, thank you.
Opening the instruments file in wordpad, I found the articulation, and the velocity and gateTime values. What is gateTime? If I change the velocity, should I be worried about gateTime?
In reply to Alright, thank you. Opening by Sean Oliveras
Velocity basically translates into loudness, gateTime into duration. Change whichever you wish to be different. Delete both lines if you wish there to literally be no effect. Note there are global settings for articulations but also some instrument-specific overrides (so "staccato" might mean something different from piano versus trumpet).
In reply to Velocity basically translates by Marc Sabatella
Got it, thank you. I was going to assume gateTime meant something like duration, since I already knew velocity meant volume of sound.
And as for global vs. instrument-specific override, I would just have to find the code for the specific instrument and change it there?
In reply to Got it, thank you. I was by Sean Oliveras
Yes, if that's your goal. Depends what your reason is for doing this in the first. If it's just about the sound of a specific instrument, maybe it means *adding* an override for that instrument. If you just want no instruments to play any articulations ever, then you'll need to remove them all.
In reply to Yes, if that's your goal. by Marc Sabatella
It's just a personal problem.
I have terrible speakers at the moment, and accents (like Marcato and Sforzato) only increase in volume for the duration of a note, rather than accent the beginning and die off later. This causes a problem (for me with my terrible speakers) since when there are multiple consecutive notes with those accents, the volume is just loud all the time, and it pops and cracks my speakers. It plays fine in places where there are no accents, but for printing purposes I need the accents.
I just don't want to have to constantly change my speaker volume. I have the volume (between the synthesizer, computer, and the speakers) at a good level otherwise.
In reply to It's just a personal by Sean Oliveras
I wouldn't change the instruments.xml for this. I would just buy a pair of speakers or headphones.
In reply to Velocity basically translates by Marc Sabatella
So, I'm changing the instruments file, but the changes do not seem to be taking effect in the playback of the score. And, I made sure to choose the correct instrument file in preferences > Score.
I have set Marcato and Sforzato to velocity 0 to make sure I hear a definite change.
I also chacked for specific instrument overrides and didn't find any, but I might not know what I'm looking at. My apologies for being so naive about about this.
Score is imported from 1.3
Windows 7
MuseScore 2
In reply to So, I'm changing the by Sean Oliveras
You need to maker sure that in preferences that file is used, rather than the builtin one
In reply to You need to maker sure that by Jojo-Schmitz
Aren't I doing that by going Preferences > Score and choosing my file in Instrument list 1?
In reply to Aren't I doing that by going by Sean Oliveras
Yes, that should do
In reply to So, I'm changing the by Sean Oliveras
Changes to instruments.xml won't affect existing scores; you'd have to edit them by hand.
But given what you describe, this is definitely the wrong approach. An accent marking won't increase the volume above the maximum - which is to say, a note with an accent marking is no louder than a note played one dynamic level or so louder. So if an "mf" note with an accent distorts your speakers, so will a an "f" or "ff" note with no accent. You simply need to turn down the synthesizer volume level (not your speaker volume) in View / Synthesizer, and hit the "Save as default" button.
In reply to Changes to instruments.xml by Marc Sabatella
Oh well. Not a problem. Thanks for the help you guys.