Flutes aren't holding as long
I noticed while playing back that my flute part stops holding a note about an 8th note before the other instruments do, even though they are the same length. Is there something I may have accidentally changed that caused this to happen?
Comments
Sounds like a possible font problem. What font is it?
For some instruments such as "flute" MuseScore by default cuts off the note duration at 95% for normal playback and will use 100% of the duration when it should be played legato/slurred.
You can always override this using the Piano Roll Editor.
In reply to For some instruments such as… by jeetee
I somewhat doubt though whether you can really hear those missing 5%.It is certainly not an 8th shorter. Unless we talk about a breve or longa maybe
In reply to I somewhat doubt though… by Jojo-Schmitz
Using the default General HQ font, I notice that the flute separates all notes just a tad. Other instruments, hardly at all.
BTW, we know that "tad" means Technically Accurate Description. Or maybe, Totally About Donuts. It depends on which translation of "How to Pull Something Out of Thin Air and Still Not Sound Like You Know What You Are Talking About" you are using.
Sorry, I drifted off for a moment.
I have noticed that in some other fonts there are instruments that do not hold some longer notes out full value. Strings in some versions of SSO have this problem. I think VPO has a few problems, also.
In reply to Using the default General HQ… by bobjp
As @jeetee mentioned, Flute (and Piccolo Flute) and (all) Piano(s) shorten the notes to 95%. No other instrument does.
In reply to As @jeetee mentioned, Flute… by Jojo-Schmitz
I wonder why that is? Oboe doesn't do that. The few brass I tested don't.
In reply to I wonder why that is? Oboe… by bobjp
The list of instruments I mentioned above is 100% complete ;-)
This was an experiment a long time ago to allow for slured playback increasing those 90% to 100%
See #332116: Flute notes are too short and slurs don't always help
Since it was slightly tricky for me to figure out how to globally disable this special treatment of flutes with instruments.xml, here's what I figured out (which may or may not be the best way to do it):
1. Make a copy of the instruments.xml that's under "instruments/" in the MuseScore installation folder
2. in the copy, under 'Instrument id="flute"', remove or comment out the lines from "Articulation" to "/Articulation" (currently lines 600-603).
(Removing only the "gateTime" line breaks flute playback)
3. Under Edit/Preferences/Score, point "Instrument list 1" to that file
As far as I can tell, this change only applies to new scores.
In reply to Since it was slightly tricky… by yharel
It does. For existing scores do the similar change to the mscx inside the mscz or 'change instrument' to that new definition