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go onto the rest in between. in the palettes, there should be a category called “beam properties” or something like it. select it and choose the option that has the two notes beamed together.
This post includes an estimated timeline, which puts the stable release of Musescore 4 at 15 December.
It sounds like a massive task, it could easily be pushed back. Wait and see, I guess.
There are a few links to alternative soundfonts at the bottom of the page including a few piano-specific ones. There's also detailed installation instructions. Hope this helps!
Musescore isn't designed for playback, so you'd probably have to mess around with the synthesizer in ways I'm not familiar with. This should hopefully be a lot more fleshed out in musescore 4 though.
The easiest way to get a nice sounding orchestral sound would be to use a DAW and get some free plugins. DSK Overture and VSCO2 orchestra have decent strings (both are free), and Spitfire has their LABS Strings (free, but with weird panning) and BBCSO Discover (free, but you have to fill out a survey and wait 2 weeks, or pay $50). If you don't have a DAW, you can follow this tutorial to make these free libraries into a soundfont you can use in musescore: https://musescore.org/en/node/293510
What, you can't do a 19 fret strecth!? 😜
There's some handy keyboard shortcuts that do what you want.
I'm not sure if I understand the question correctly.
Are you asking about how to create the pickup measure / upbeat? It's explained here:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-operations#duration
TL;DR: Right-click an empty part of the measure and select Measure Properties
While the nominal measure duration is 3/4, the actual measure duration can be set to 1/4.
You can create a blank score with your instruments of choice and save them in the templates folder for later use. It should appear in the start center like the other templates.
That first single beat is an anacrusis, which is part of the initial score set up, or at any point afterwards as per that link.
The ‘having the flute part by itself because nothing else is playing’ is the Hide Blank Stave I initially linked to and I what I thought you were asking about
I would maybe do a line break mid-measure, it's a common practice in filled passages anyhow and this looks like a good situation to apply it as well... You could look into this: https://musescore.org/en/node/209381
That's not the dialog - it indeed only specifies the font characteristics. instead. Also, it seems you might be using an extremely obsolete version, for the past several years the style dialog is Format / Style. So first update, then go to Format / Style / Chord Symbols, and there is where you'll see the options for appearance etc.
Stacked extensions are not currently supported, but work to implement this is underway "as we speak" for MuseScore 4. If you do a search of the official Supprot forum on musescore.org, you'll also find some custom chord description XML files that can be installed to give stacked extensions already in MuseScore 3.
It looks to me that the top voice is | rest 2 3 4 | and the bottom voice is | 1-2-3 rest | (so basically there should be another rest on beat 4 in voice two.).
To write this in musescore, you’d use the voice feature and put the dotted half in voice one and the quarter note line in voice two (you could do it the other way around, no difference).
I wasn't aware that one could upload custom audio with a score to the site. Hopefully someone will know what settings are ideal.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/share-scores-online
> 6. If you are using a different SoundFont than the default one and if you are able to export MP3 files (may not be the case on some Linux versions), a checkbox Upload score audio will be visible:
> If the checkbox is checked, MuseScore will render the audio of the score using the current synthesizer settings and upload the audio to MuseScore.com.
You can definitely transpose from the desktop. That might be my most commonly accessed feature. You select the notes you want to transpose, either all of them or a subset of them, and then follow the directions on this page.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/transposition
You do make me wonder if we're talking about the same thing when you say you are logged into the desktop program. Maybe there's a way to do that, but I never actually log in to the desktop software. I just use it.
Weird. I’ve never had that happen to me. If simply restarting the program after saving doesn’t work, musescore has a pretty good forum where you can ask about troubleshooting.
please upload the score as an attachment to the official support forum (https://musescore.org/en/forum/6). You might even get better answers from there than this reddit forum.
No, you can. You only have to add different dynamics in each hand's staff and edit them to affect only it's staff rather than the whole instrument
There are lots of good soundfonts available, and (I think) all soundfonts are compatible with Musescore. The handbook tells you how to install them (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/soundfonts-and-sfz-files). You can look for other GM (General MIDI) soundfonts to replace the default Musescore one, or just look soundfonts for individual instruments. Personally I use the default soundfont and just replace the strings and piano for a better sound.
As far as I know there isn't a way to input tuplets into the tempo marking directly and have musescore do the metric modulation for you. You'll have to do a manual workaround:
First way:
- Manually re-create the metric modulation in an image editor (yikes)
- Add this image to the score by dragging-and-dropping from your files onto the note where the metric mod happens
- Add an actual tempo marking at where you want the metric mod to happen, 1/2 note = 72 (or 1/4 note = 144, any equivalent).
- Hide the tempo marking by selecting it and pressing V.
Second way:
- I tried to describe it in text but it was way too long, so look at this gif. Pressing F2 gives you the symbols palette, F8 gives the inspector to turn off autoplace, and Ctrl+T adds text directly (on Windows).
- After all that, select the main metric mod, and in the inspector, untick "follow text".
- Change the "Tempo:" box to 144 BPM (this is in terms of 1/4 notes)
As for the time sig, Musescore can't replicate that exactly. The best that's possible is (6+3)/8 or (3+3)/(4+8). You can look at this entry in the Musescore handbook on how to create new time sigs.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/copy-and-paste#paste-half-double-duration
Basically, select all, cut and then paste with double duration
You can try using a different soundfont if you want different playback in MuseScore https://musescore.org/en/handbook/2/soundfonts-and-sfz-files
But you'll probably want to use a separate program for editing playback.
From the MuseScore website:
> Select one or more notes and change the notehead in the Inspector, using the drop-down list under Note → Head group
There should be an X in the head group drop down.
So just add a note like normal, change the head group to X, and you can uncheck the “Play” checkbox in the inspector if you don’t want the note to sound in MuseScore.
Not sure what you mean by 'fixed key', maybe transposing instruments? For non-transposed simultaneous key signatures, try dragging the key signature to the staff and holding Ctrl down as you drop it on the staff.
*messed up the link first time
Slash notation exists but does not reproduce playback. You will need to use a hidden stave with the actual notes on it to accomplish playback while the main stave shows slash notation.
Those double and triple slashes in your example are not correct notation, I have never seen their usage in actual practice.
I don't browse for MuseScore scores online, I only use Desktop Software, but if I'll need to edit something in absence of a Desktop I would use something like www.soundslice.com or flat.io web apps - they can import MusicXML files exported from MuseScore even in Free plans. In order to export back to MusicXML they require a paid plan though. I don't know if it is possible to do export/import from/to MuseScore online collection to/from MusicXML or not. If it is, then with help of paid third party web app such as soundslice or flatio score editing without leaving iPad is possible. Not so quick of course but at least this is already available.
For MuseScore developers I think it's better to keep improving original Desktop MuseScore software because it is the only free powerful scoring software we have right now (correct me if I'm wrong) while wep app certainly would be less powerful and still requiring lot of efforts to develop and maintain Safari/IE and web-browsers compatibility.
I was going to ask the same thing :-). I guess maybe the idea was, they planned to enter a single note and no other notes, then for someone reason wanted to also select the note they just entered in order to do something to do it that can't be done in note input mode (where the note would have been already selected anyhow)?
It kind of sounds like maybe you're trying to do something that is much more easily done another way, but we'd need more context to understand what it is you are trying to do. Best to ask for help on the official support forum on musescore.org where you can attach your score and describe exactly where you are trying to add a note and what you are then wanting to do to it and why. Then we can understand and assist better.
It sounds like you need to go into your shortcut preferences and change some things up.
MS doesn't have a priority order for shortcuts. So even if you have note-input off, and hit a b c d e f g it will insert it into your score. Though, in general I wouldn't use this method for writing music, but that's just my preference.
Here's a short explanation from MS: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input
Sorry, what are you trying to do that you think you need a Pro account for? All notation features are free, Pro is just for sharing your scores on the musescore.com site. But you can (always) download musescore notation software at musescore.org for free and it's fully functional.
I've had a play around with some code, and this should work, but I'm using a very old version of Musescore on an old computer and it messes up the note pitches a lot - I'm pretty sure this is a bug in older versions of Musescore, so if you're using an up-to-date version it should work. No guarantees though!
If you need to know how to run plugins, look at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/plugins#Create_edit_run_plugins - you should be able to copy and paste this code in:
import QtQuick 2.0
import QtQuick.Dialogs 1.1
import MuseScore 1.0
MuseScore {
version: "1.0"
description: "This plugin merges grace notes with their neighbouring chord"
menuPath: "Plugins.Notes.Merge grace notes"
function mergeGraceNotes() {
var cursor = curScore.newCursor()
for (var staff=0; staff<=(curScore.nstaves-1); staff++) {
for (var voice=0; voice<4; voice++) {
cursor.rewind(1)
cursor.voice = voice
cursor.staffIdx = staff
cursor.rewind(0)
while (cursor.segment) {
if (cursor.element) {
if (cursor.element.type == Element.CHORD) {
var chord = cursor.element
var newNotes = []
var newNoteIndex = 0;
while (chord.graceNotes.length>0) {
var graceChord = chord.graceNotes[0];
for (var i=0; i<graceChord.notes.length; i++) {
var graceNote = graceChord.notes[i];
console.log(graceNote.pitch);
var newNote = newElement(Element.NOTE);
newNote.pitch = graceNote.pitch;
chord.add(newNote);
}
chord.remove(chord.graceNotes[0]);
}
}
}
cursor.next()
}
}
}
}
onRun: {
if (typeof curScore!='undefined')
mergeGraceNotes()
Qt.quit();
}
}
Also see the articulation & ornament control plugins available from musescore.org (Download / Plugins from that site) - that might be a better way to get the effect you are after.
the one i keep coming back to is this one: http://midkar.com/soundfonts/
timbres of heaven. its on the musescore page for soundfonts too, theres some others in there, but none as good i think https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/soundfonts-and-sfz-files
to elaborate, musescore.org is the free, open source notation software.
musescore.com is a (related) community of people sharing / selling scores.
the software is most definitely still free if you go to musescore.org.
> Musescore won't allow playback for a change in volume in just one note.
Yes it does, and has for over a year now. Instruments that in real life won't usually have single-note dynamics as a possibility, e.g. acoustic piano, do not have this feature.
You can also make your very own custom palette (i.e. "Handbells" for instance) and drag and drop things from the master palette or other palettes onto it to make a handy one-stop shop for things you use the most.
This is not beginner stuff so you won't find it in the beginning tutorials. However if you browse the online manual, which is searchable, all the advanced stuff is clearly laid out there.
I agree that it looks like you are using a not-very-optimal page size (or staff size) for the ensemble you are writing for. Hard to say for sure though from just a picture, much better to ask on the official support forum on musescore.org where you can attach the actual score.
Aside from choosing a better staff & paper size - which you will want to do before printing anyhow - you can also switch to Continuous view, where page size is irrelevant and you just have one long continuous (hence the name) system.
Are you *sure* you entered a dotted minim? They would not normally overall if so, unless the sixteenth is actually belonging to the bottom staff and was moved up via cross-staff notation, in which case, indeed, the notes will overlap, so you'll have to move one manually (eg, via the Inspector).
Sorry it took so long to respond. FWIW, the official Support forum on musescore.org is way faster.
I've seen this occasionally, but not for several years, as we fixed quite a few bugs relating to this back at around 3.1 or so. Apparently some remain. In order for us to investigate, please go to the official Support forum on musescore.org and attach the score with the problem. You should have a response very quickly there.
There are indeed several Discord channels for MuseScore, including official ones used for development and design discussions as well as more general user-focused ones. If you're having trouble finding them, well, to me that's part of the downside of using Discord for this purpose., but it's there for those who like it. As mentioned, though, the main support is in the official forums on musescore.org, that's where by far the most activity and expertise is.
It looks like you can! But it also looks a little complex for a notation software, unfortunately. Although, there are many web based composition tools out there like noteflight.com and flat.io. There might be some other programs in the store that’s built into your OS but I don’t know any off the top of my head.
This is absolutely a thing: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/playback-chord-symbols-nashville-numbers Whichever staff you place chord symbols on, the written notes will play in the staff instrument and the chords will be piano.
Actually you can change dynamics to only affect one staff, but not only one voice afaik. You only have to adjust the range: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/dynamics#adjust-range
In the "Repeats and Jumps" palette you can find the measure-repeat sign as the first option. If you need to have that sign for a multi-measure repeat, refer to this guide
To get what I believe you want, instead of using the capo staff text feature, use a linked guitar staff+tab, and right click the guitar staff and go to "Staff/Part Properties" and in the combo-box next to "Transposition _ Octaves +" pick the transposition and direction you want, and then click the "Edit String Data" button below and shift every guitar string by the transposition amount but in the *opposite* direction of what you selected above.
(For what it is worth, MuseScore's doc's call the Capo feature https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/capo-playback to be "Capo Playback", so that might explain why it only affects playback and doesn't transpose notes...I could image some users wanting the notation to be auto-transposed while some users might not want the notation auto-transposed.)
You replied that post, it's this one: https://musescore.org/en/comment/1089574#comment-1089574
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at the end i got no answer. I did the pram reset and all the steps in the official post regarding this issue.
I think the soundfont you mentioned is linked from this page in the Musescore handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/soundfonts-and-sfz-files
Can you explain what you expected and what you observed that was different from what was expected?
If you think it is a bug, you should follow the steps here: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/bug-reports-and-feature-requests
There is no registration or account required to download or use the MuseScore software.
Click the button. Download. Install. Open. Create.
If you'd like to save to cloud or publish online, there is optional integration with a Musescore.com account.
You could get it to display properly using the Voices features, making the note small, and then some staff text.
To get it to playback properly, I wouldn't have a clue.
All such symbols have 'jump' properties that you can set. Click on one, say the Fine, then hit F8 for the inspector panel and check out the "Jump" section. Here's a 'how to' article.
Can you be more specific? Do you want to split a measure like splitting a word in a sentence? (And why would you want to?) Or do you want to split a staff at a certain measure?
In either case, have you checked the manual?
the problem with that is that I'd have to change them back to default looks later and there's no such thing as a default reset apparently, and even when i do change it, im not sure if it'll affect the sound or just the notation style in the sheet
You can edit the default drum set notation and pick from different noteheads and staff positions. There isn’t really a standard, especially for specialty stuff like this that sounds real “cymbal” heavy, so providing a key is probably the way to go.
It’s also common in drum–land to put articulation marks above the staff. I also flatten all my beams, which I don’t think you’ll be able to do until you export parts.
There are several ways to skin this particular cat, none of which are ideal. Have a search on the musescore forums for some ideas.
One way is to right-click on a time signature and choose 'time signature properties', then in the 'appearance' section put "7+6" in the first text field and "4" in the second. This change is purely cosmetic though as it doesn't affect the number of beats in each bar. To address this you could first create a bar of 7/4 and a bar of 6/4, then make the 6/4 time signature invisible (select it then type V) then alter the text of the 7/4 to be 7+6/4.
Or, you could create a new time signature by clicking on 'More' in the time signatures palette, then 'create time signature.' There are many ways to proceed here, one might be to set the value to be 13/4, set the text to be 7+6/4, then manually set the note groups by clicking on the notes where you want the beams to divide. You would need to drop barlines into the right place in every measure of 13/4 to give the appearance of it being divided it into 7 and 6. This could get confusing as Musescore still thinks there's 1 bar when it looks like there's 2.
Your question doesn't really make sense. What, exactly, are you trying to do?
If you're trying to tie the A and the A# (I'm assuming you're using a treble clef) that's simply impossible—a tie increases the duration of a single note, and A and A# are different notes.
If you're trying to make the G twice as long and get rid of the quarter rest, why not just make the G a half note? I'm guessing that's not what you're trying to do.
If you're trying to place a slur (completely different than a tie, even though they look basically the same), you can use the "Lines" palette. However, that doesn't explain why you want the rest to go away.
Regardless, instructions for both ties and slurs are in the MuseScore manual—I'd recommend looking there first next time.
Yes violin in paticualrs this is a hard sound to get a good sound of. Me I did find success in using this sound-font it is called Akri Strings, this has some good solo violins options.
Me what I did I was writing for a concerto grossio, I did set different sounds to the channels of the violin, thus being Normal, Pizz, Tremello, you can set different sound-font sounds in this and use certain staff texts to tell Muse-Score to change the sound. And so I did this whereby for fast passages I direct the music to a sound what is sounding best for fast passages, and then for slow passages I direct the music to a sound what is sounding best for slow passages.
In this Akri Strings sound-font there is the violin sounds called Cambells, this I find are sounding the best for solo violin, but maybe this is just for Baroqe solo violin sound.
I also like the sound called Galiano Violin, this is in the sound font what is called Symphonic Sounds for overly picky nerdes, this is in Muse-Score forums https://musescore.org/en/node/151316
But for Muse-Score and sound fonts you are not going to get sounding as if you can mistake it for a real violin. Maybe what you can do is export seperate tracts into Audacity or other editing softwares to change the sound after you did write it in the Muse-Score, in this way you can get slightly better than the sound what is coming out of Muse-Score
Ah... I'm using an older version of Musescore so it may have changed slightly.
Another idea: you can change the anchor settings for the whole score at once. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/layout-and-formatting#style-articulations-ornaments. You should be able to change the anchor for all the accents, which will save you from having to alter them one by one.
Seriously dude, there's no need to be rude to the people who've made this software and are constantly improving it. For free.
If you really think the developer's aren't doing good enough, I suggest 1) trying different software or 2) contributing to development (https://musescore.org/en/development).
If you think you've found a bug in Musescore, rather than ranting on reddit, the best thing to do is submit a bug report here: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/bug-reports-and-feature-requests
I kind of agree that the transposing intervals can be a bit confusing for someone who hasn't studied music - maybe there should be some options you can turn on or off for people who don't know much music theory? Other than that, I don't really understand what you're complaining about.
Big credit to MarcSabatella for giving you some really comprehensive answers. And I agree - Musescore is super!
I think you've misunderstood what I mean by velocity. Read this: https://musescore.org/en/node/73761. It's not about the speed, it's the volume of an individual note. If every note is at the same velocity, it will sound fake.
My feeling based on comparisons to other notation software and other company-owned open source projects is that some of the volunteers are being taken advantage of. If Ultimate Guitar owns MuseScore now, the volunteers are effectively working for them, and Ultimate Guitar isn't exactly a charity. I'm hoping another way of doing things will be found that compensates the developers.
I guess the only way to measure stability is with some kind of survey. As a developer, you'll've reported and/or solved a lot of the issues you've encountered, and newcomers are more likely to find obscure system-dependent bugs.
I'm sure I found an 11-year-old bug in the issue tracker, but it's gone now. Here's a 10-year-old one: https://musescore.org/en/node/4911 . It's clearly low-priority and probably not even a real bug, but highlights that the triage system isn't perfect.
https://musescore.org/en/node/262821
Found answer to 'rests' issue. Why this stuff is not in the guidebook is ridiculous. When mods or responders just link to the manual it's infuriating.
From the FAQ:
> MuseScore does not impose any ownership or license on your work, whether it's sheet music, exported audio files or the .mscz files themselves. What you make is entirely your own creation and you decide what to do with it.
This could certainly be. My guess is it involves invisible staves if you aren't seeing the notes selected in the score. If you would like us to investigate, please post to the Support forum on musescore.org and attach your score and the precise steps to reproduce the problem.
This is from the MuseScore forum, I did some digging because I was curious if it was possible, but alas:
MuseScore doesn't support changing between unpitched and pitched instruments on the same staff currently.
You might get your desired effect by using two different instruments and then making use of the hide empty staves feature."
Really? I did a YouTube search “Musescore adding chord names” and got 15 hits on the first page alone including some YouTube videos. Try here https://musescore.org/en/handbook/handbook-musescore-1/text/chord-name
Official Scores isn't actually something they offer at all (I have a Pro account). See this: https://musescore.org/en/node/312231
In that forum thread it appears that a Musescore developer admits that it's not a feature they have, and that they are trying to assess whether there is any interest in it. The way they've gone about it is pretty bad, imho.
Did you tried? https://musescore.org/en/handbook/piano-roll-editor
OnTime parameter is used for what you need.
You must type a number, you can not use the mouse. Only single staff can be shown (even only the upper or lower staff of piano grand staves). So it is quite unfinished but it works...
Select the time signature. Hit F8 to open the inspector. Click the properties button at the bottom. On the 1/16 note group (the middle one) click on the 4th 16th note, then every 4th note after. That breaks the beams into the grouping you want. Click okay and voila.
Read mere here
Are you asking about the widths of the measures? They will spread out as you enter notes. It doesn't take much space to show a bunch of rests. You can also enter some system breaks by dragging and dropping them in per the instructions on this page...
I think you could try a workaround using the Change Instrument text and changing only its tuning. I've never tried this, so i don't know if it works as intended
Apparently, there's a way to install MuseScore directly without appimaged. I've never used it and don't know how it handles updates... you can try tho. I personally prefer appimaged because I use multiple software on AppImages, so it is easier for me, but if you're only using one AppImage you may try this method.
If the other files play well, then the problem should be in this file only. Try to go to the Synthesizer and click on To Expressive (or on Reset All). If this doesn't work, make sure that the dynamics are on the correct voice and check the velocity on the inspector (so a forte should have a higher velocity than a mezzoforte and so on)
If none of this work, I don't know what else could be...
HereHere there's a Dynamics tab. Try to click the "To expressive" button or "Reset All". If you write a cres/dim that makes sense and use a trumpet as you said, you should get dynamics (make sure you're using the default soundfonts)
Okay, I just looked into my settings and see that there are two similar paths: (translated from German) Plugin path and addon path. Make sure to put your qml file into the path pointed at the fourth textfield from bottom. I think the first from bottom might be something different. See also https://musescore.org/de/node/278601#linux
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It might also be the case, that the folder differs depending on localisation. Other than that, I don't know what you could be doing wrong.
There isn't a built in rit. feature to automatically change tempos, but there is a plugin to do that.
If you want to add in text, you can either press CTRL+T to enter in text above a staff and just type in rit., or you could drag in a blank line from the "lines" pallet, then in the "inspect element" sidebar on the right, check the box to add "begin text" and then add rit. From there, you can also make the line dashed or dotted and edit how those dashes/dots work -- this features works well for long or for specific ritardandos or accelerandos.
It's not currently possible, but it's an oft-requested feature.
You can work around it by editing the individual note velocities using the Inspector.
You can also work around it by duplicating the entire voice into a hidden instrument and applying the desired dynamics there, then disabling playback for all of the notes in that voice in the original visible instrument.
I'd reccomend submitting a bug report at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/bug-reports-and-feature-requests - they're usually pretty good at responding to them. Be really specific about what you were doing when the crash happened, and attaching a sample score helps. I don't know if working on a large piece is contributing to the problem - I've had trouble when I'm working on a large file and try to add a new instrument, and the whole thing crashes.
Try downloading the most recent version of Musecore, in case the problem has already been fixed.
MuseScore developer here. No, you didn't goof anything up; that definitely looks like a bug.
Is this 100% reproducible? If so, please file a new issue with all the information needed to reproduce the problem (including your score file, if it happens only with that one file), and we'll try to investigate.
It's also possible that this isn't a bug in MuseScore itself. Have you tried:
- Restarting your computer?
- Updating your graphics driver to the latest version?
- Reverting MuseScore to factory settings?
Also, follow the instructions for importing the VDL Instrument List (drum maps) into MuseScore from this post. https://musescore.org/en/node/273531#Connecting_via_MIDI_Out - The MIDI instructions are PC specific, but you can accomplish the MIDI connection between MuseScore and Kontakt using the Apple IAC Driver (found in Audio MIDI Setup App)
Sorry, I'm fading out here, need to go to bed soon.
The Mixer panel is under the View menu -> Mixer. It lets you change the played instrument, adjust volume and pan for the different tracks, etc.
I suggested using a MIDI file before, but that actually won't test what I wanted to test. Here is a file I scavenged from old study aids for my choir. If the pitches are off in this, the problem is almost certainly in either your installation of Musescore or your Raspberry Pi's MIDI interface/drivers/hardware or such.
The file you created doesn't transmit the missed pitches to anyone else who gets it, so it's not something saved into the file (which is why I didn't think the Tuning thing was likely). I could see it as a corruption of the sound font file, but that should have been fixed with a fresh installation of Musescore. My suspicion is that either a.) the reinstall didn't end up as clean as you hoped (e.g. there was a corrupted setting file that was possibly on an online drive that got restored after the reinstall, or something) or b.) there's something wrong with your Raspberry Pi, its sound driver, or the version of Musescore for the Pi. Since the last would probably have generated complaints, that's also pretty darn unlikely. Replacing the SoundFont might work, but if it doesn't, the only thing I can think of after that is to use a different computer.
Good luck!
It started happening to me in appimages and flatpaks too. So I had a look at the problem. The window that pops up offering to select a score to open is the problem.
Appimages that are started with a full name to an existing mscz file open normally. <full path>appimmage <name to file>.
After that change the preferences so musescore always opens an existing mscz when it starts-up. Worked for me. I hope this helps.
My understanding is that it's supposed to scale the icons depending on the resolution of your monitor, but it doesn't seem to do that correctly. (They're much too small for me too, and I'm running the Linux AppImage at 1920/1080. What's your Operating System and resolution, out of curiosity?)
You can change the scaling manually by "passing in" new "arguments" when running the program from the command line. This link mentions "-X <scaling-factor-like-1.5-or-0.75>", and I'm pretty sure that's the one that's worked for me.
The steps to set the program to launch with those arguments automatically (so that you don't have to open the command line and type it in yourself every time) depend on your OS.
The Salamander soundfont is supposed to be very good. But I suspect that the only way to make playback sound good is to put a lot of time into tweaking every note. When a good human pianist plays they don't play every note the same - they change how each note is played as part of phrasing.
I see that is a MusicXML file, apparently it was not created properly. You will need to hit "ignore" then try to fix the issues using the suggestions in https://musescore.org/en/node/54721
Musescore 3 has a good plugin for microtonal tuning - Accidental Tuner I’ve used this one quite a bit, although it’s kind of a hassle trying to tune every microtonal note manually.
The swing notation bit? You can only get the effect with the text 'Swing' from the text palette (or right click any system text and select Properties). To get that notation, you need to embed an image of it unfortunately since there's no native way to display it. You can find an image on the MuseScore handbook, here.
Hope that helps!
No problem yo!
For future reference whenever needed, the idea is you need to make a single beat equal to the length of the tuplet you want. Sometimes that can't be done easily (e.g. if you want 7 beats in the space of 5 eighth notes), in which case there's this guide available.
No problem! We have a handbook and forums as well, where a few more people are active than in this subreddit. But feel free to ask questions wherever you want, people will always be happy to answer them :)
The program is open source, so you can take the code and develop anything you like.
If you go to musescore.org and click on the link for the forums, the developers sometimes read and respond to messages there if you really want to talk with them.
You could try deleting the original soundfont, as described here.
> In contrast to user-added SoundFonts, the initial default SoundFont installed with MuseScore is located in a system directory, meant only for that purpose, which should not be modified. This directory and its default SoundFont file is:
> Windows (32-bit): %ProgramFiles%\MuseScore 3\sound\MuseScore_General.sf3 > Windows (64-bit): %ProgramFiles(x86)%\MuseScore 3\sound\MuseScore_General.sf3
> macOS: /Applications/MuseScore 3.app/Contents/Resources/sound/MuseScore_General.sf3
> Linux (Ubuntu): /usr/share/mscore-xxx/sounds/MuseScore_General.sf3 (with xxx being the MuseScore version)
> Uninstall > To uninstall a SoundFont, simply open the folder where its file is installed and delete it.
Another thing you could try besides line breaks is increasing the horizontal spacing with the curly brace keys
Hang tight... 2.3 is soon to be released and will be focus heavily on percussion improvements, particularly marching percussion. It will have an entirely new and separate soundfont just for percussion, new noteheads, and will be compatible with VDL.
More info here - https://musescore.org/en/node/271033
It sounds like you tried to change to another soundfont? The "TimGM6" file looks like the soundfont file (.sf2) that came with MS v1.3. I actually have that as one of my soundfont options. The soundfont that came with MS v2 or v2.1 is "FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3", and I'm wondering if that got kicked out somehow?
What files do you have in your Soundfont folder? Is the FluidR3 missing? If so you can always re-download it from the here.
Once in Musescore, open the Synthesizer > Fluid, and see if the FluidR3 file is present. If not, you can click the Add button and add it to the list. Make sure it's first on the list if there is anything else there (likely the TimGM6withDL file you downloaded). Click "Set as default".
See if that helps you any.
Well, soundfonts are always a pretty good start. I use the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra with a combination of Musescore 2's original FluidR3 soundfont; it sounds pretty realistic.
If you have a DAW or a more advanced notation software such as Finale you can use better sounding libraries, like Garritan. However, these cost money.
This worked for me, with some tweaks. I don't know if the tab option is on the startup page. I usually start with a standard notation staff and then add an instrument with a tablature staff.