Where did my soundfonts presets go?

• May 29, 2021 - 09:19

Hi, hoping to get some insight here.

A few months ago I created a score. I used many soundfonts to tweak it until I was happy. Then I did not open the score for a few months. Now Im looking at the score again, the soundfonts presets are gone.

I installed the latest Musescore update which has brought back some of the options in the mixer. I.e. the option to change soundfont. I located my folder where the soundfonts are located and re-added this through 'preferences' > 'general'. The option to 'Add' the soundfonts is now there. But, 'Load from score' is greyed-out.

Does anyone know how I can get these soundfonts back onto the score according to the presets I had made?

Thanks,

Comments

mirabilos

• May 29, 2021 - 20:25

Chances are you did not save them to the score in the first place. The active synthesiser settings are not normally persisted in the score, you have to do that explicitly in the dialogue.

stspello

• May 30, 2021 - 03:25

If soundfonts are used in musescore and you save, then when reopening the file the soundfonts wont be saved?

mirabilos

• May 30, 2021 - 06:09

If you do it like this…

set synthesiser settings as you want them
click Save to score in the synthesiser dialogue
save the score itself

… then they are normally saved. Then you can get them back with Load from score. You can see that in the MuseScore XML file by a nōn-empty /museScore/Score/Synthesizer tag, for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<museScore version="2.06">
  <programVersion>2.3.2</programVersion>
  <programRevision>4592407</programRevision>
  <Score>
    <LayerTag id="0" tag="default"></LayerTag>
    <currentLayer>0</currentLayer>
    <Synthesizer>
      <master>
        <val id="0">Zita1</val>
        <val id="1">NoEffect</val>
        <val id="2">0.1</val>
        <val id="3">440</val>
        </master>
      <Fluid>
        <val id="0">MuseScore_General.sf3</val>
        <val id="0">Metronom.sf2</val>
        </Fluid>
      <Zerberus>
        </Zerberus>
      <Zita1>
        <val id="0">0.25</val>
        <val id="1">0.462756</val>
        <val id="2">0.161809</val>
        <val id="3">0.333333</val>
        <val id="4">0.25</val>
        <val id="5">0.335245</val>
        <val id="6">0.5</val>
        <val id="7">0.664755</val>
        <val id="8">0.5</val>
        <val id="9">0.33</val>
        </Zita1>
      </Synthesizer>
    <Division>480</Division>
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(If this is bohemian villages to you, send me the MuseScore file and I can have a look at it.)