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I would be happy if one of these three features would be implemented in future updates:
1.) Allow glissandos (in this instance, it would be a pitch bend) to be heard on instruments that are able to use them in real life, which would include: strings, vocals, timpani, trombones, certain kinds of unpitched percussion, and electronic keyboards.
2.) Special grace notes that play right when the main note plays.
3.) The ability to use more than one soundfont in a score.
Comments
3. is possible since MuseScore 2.0.
2. right of the main note? Grace note after is in 2.0
1. Glissando play back is possible as of now, in the next nightly build... but not a bend, yet, only in steps (diatonic, chromatic, black or white keys)
In reply to 3. is possible since by Jojo-Schmitz
Regarding number 2:
What I meant was a grace note that plays exactly when the main note is played; a flam.
In reply to 3. is possible since by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo--Can you elaborate on the use of more than one soundfont in a single score? I am definitely interested in this. Some of the instruments in the 2.0 soundfont are good/better than the old soundfont in 1.3, but others (notably the recorders, which sound like badly-tuned calliopes with holes in the pipes) are simply execrable. I would love to be able to assign the 1.3 recorder sound fonts to those instrument staffs in scores, while assigning the new 2.0 cello soundfont (which is quite good) to that staff.
Can that be done, and if so, how?
In reply to Jojo--Can you elaborate on by Recorder485
Load both soundfonts in the synthesizer (see https://musescore.org/en/node/50721) and pick the sounds you like in the mixer (see https://musescore.org/en/node/35961)
In reply to Load both soundfonts in the by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks! I will try that this afternoon.
EDIT TO ADD: Can I just copy and paste the old soundfont from the 1.3 directory in my computer into the directory for 2.0?
In reply to Thanks! I will try that this by Recorder485
Yes. But I'd recommend trying out some of the other soundfonts available before settling for the 1.3 soundfont. See https://musescore.org/en/node/36171. There are several choices available, all much better than the 1.3 soundfont.
In reply to Yes. But I'd recommend by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the steer to better soundfonts, but at the moment I don't need to make demo tapes from my scores. I'm just trying to avoid wincing over the out-of-tune, dying-gasp warbling that passes for recorder sounds in 2.0. The recorder sound in 1.3 is admittedly hokey and not true;to-life, but it's in tune and good enough for what I need. The fact the cello and viola da gamba sounds in 2.0 are so much better is just a bonus.
In reply to Load both soundfonts in the by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo, thanks. I loaded the 1.3 soundfont by copy/paste in the directory, and got it installed to the score without a single hitch.
The question I have now is, is it possible to choose different sound fonts for different staves within the same score? I don't see how to do this in the mixer; I get a list of sounds I can assign to the instrument, but they are all from the sound font in use for the entire score.
In reply to Jojo, thanks. I loaded the by Recorder485
When you use the Add button to add a soundfont, you'll see it gets added to the lsit of loaded soundfonts, but the original soundfont is still there. You can actually load as many soundfonts as you like, and you can use the buttons in the dialog to order them hoever you like.
Then, when in the Mixer, you'll find all sounds from all laoded soundfonts available, So assuming you didn't delete FluidR3 from the list of loaded soundfonts, it's already available in the mixer for you - just scroll past all the TimGM6mb sounds and then you'll come to the FluidR3 sounds. So yes, you can pick and choose per staff.
In reply to When you use the Add button by Marc Sabatella
AWESOME!! Done. Thank you.
As I keep stressing pitch bend is not the way forward for glissandi.
Using pitch bend limits you to one octave so consequently glissandi such as the clarinet one which begins Rhapsody in Blue would not be possible.
The Pitch Bend controller is designed for bending notes not for glissandi.
Glissandi are best controlled using the Portamento group of controllers which gives far more flexibility, plus the ability to playback Theremin and Ondes Martenot parts with some degree of accuracy.
In reply to As I keep stressing pitch by ChurchOrganist
Re the clarinet one which begins Rhapsody in Blue would not be possible
I think most clarinet players would tell you playing that gliss as a smear over more than one octave isn't possible either. I've heard it said it can be done but I've never heard it done, live or recorded
In reply to Re the clarinet one which by jim.weisgram
Theoretically you should be able to manage a twelfth as that is the interval a clarinet overblows at.
In reply to Theoretically you should be by ChurchOrganist
It's fun to get so far off track, isn't it?
For most of us, you start the gliss after playing your scale up to clarion D (or possibly C or even B) and then gradually pull your fingers off the ring keys until you reach clarion high C. You have to balance hand movement and embrochure.
Doing the same by playing chalumeau F and raising to clarion high C would involve only embrochure. Your fingering would be holding the left thumb on its hole and nothing else. That doesn't give you much to work with.
I checked a clarinet web site, who said the first recording with Paul Whitman and George Gershwin did his gliss from chalumeau D to clarion high C. That's amazing and so far as I know, unique.
In reply to As I keep stressing pitch by ChurchOrganist
The ability to get trombone smears in playback would definitely make my jazz arrangements better
In reply to The ability to get trombone by timmyd00
It may not sound exactly the way you want it, but it should more or less work out of the box in MuseScore 2.0.2 and later. What version of MuseScore are you using?