recording a loop

• Nov 27, 2015 - 06:42

I've got a 3-part vocal chorus and a couple of percussion instruments all in MuseScore 2.0.2 and can play back a loop of the whole thing. I am sooo happy with MuseScore. 8-)

Now I'd like to output this to some mp3 recordings, each with one voice on one channel and the rest of the score on the other channel. A music-minus-one type of thing to give the singers to practice with.

I don't know if MuseScore can output audio to a recording. I'm pretty sure I could make the pan adjustments to the voices, then let it play in MuseScore, while Audacity records running in the background.
But maybe there's another way, and I just haven't found it yet.

And how about only doing, say, half a dozen loops then stopping. I guess I could also put a count-off bar in front of the loop to bring the singers in the first time.

Thanks for any advice....Lyle


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You can export in various audio formats - .wav, .ogg, and .mp3 are some of them.

I am not sure though whether that would honour the pan settings you have made in the mixer.

If not, then the logical way forward for me would be to use JACK as your audio server for MuseScore, and then use something like Carla to route the Audio to Audacity.

Having said that, whilst Audacity is supposed to be JACK compatible, I have yet to find a way to implement this since the upgrade to Windows 10.

In reply to by ChurchOrganist

As far as I know, all audio output formats from MuseScore do honour the pan and volume settings in the mixer.

They do not loop by themselves, though. They only obey repeats. So, I assume you can set an n-times repeat in the score and have it output n times in the audio file, but I never tried myself.

To set a n-times-repeat up, I think one way is to add a Volta on the last measure of the repeated part and set the number of repeats in the "Volta properties" dlg box of the Volta right-click menu. If you do not want the Volta to actually appear in prints, just set it to invisible.

Thank you all for your great input.

I did see how to use the Player Panel, got some lead-in beats, panned voices left & right, etc. Rather than looping the playback, I used repeat signs at the start and end, and set the count on the last bar properties, as suggested.

Just because it was familiar to me, I recorded it with Audacity. On my Windows 7 laptop, I just ran both MuseScore & Audacity, started Audacity recording, then played the score in MuseScore. Just letting Windows do the patching, I needed no cables, Midi bus, etc. Then I could use Audacity to trim, normalize, and generate mp3 tracks.

The only problem I had was really panning one voice hard right, and the other voices hard left, to help the singers in their practicing. I found one post that talked about the Synthesizer reverb causing the bleed, so I turned it to 100% "dry", and zero delay, but seperation still wasn't great. No biggie for this situation, so I just did what I could with the pan controls, and adjusted the main voice to max volume, and the reduced the volume on the other 2 voices.

Thanks again for the help....Lyle

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