Cannot play score using MIDI keyboard sounds
Hi,
I have a Yamaha CP88 electric keyboard. It has a lot of sounds I can choose from, and they are stored in numbers like 1-1, 1-2, 1-3... all the way to 20-8.
I have my keyboard MIDI output plugged to the USB input of my laptop. And I plug headphones into my keyboard and I can hear Musescore's native sound just fine. But now I am trying to play a Musescore score with the sounds that are currently selected on the keyboard. I go to I/O and tried to mess around with the settings like in this photo. I am careful to restart Musescore after a new settings but nothing seems to work.
- Under API, what should I choose? For my DAW (Reaper) I always choose ASIO and it seems to work. Then on Device I would choose Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO. With Musescore it did not do anything.
- For MIDI input and output, which box is the one to make Musescore play notes using my keyboard's sound?
- There are options here: CP88/CP73-1 CP88/CP73-2. I tried all different combinations then restarted Musescore but nothing works.
- There was one time that it worked (I could not remember the configuration). However it was very strange. For example on my keyboard I had memory 19-7 selected, when I click play on Musescore it automatically resets my keyboard sound to 19.1. During playback I can click 19.7 on my keyboard and the sound switches just fine. But no matter what I do, everytime I stop and restart Musescore playback, it always choose the memory xx-1 on my keyboard's sound memory (for example, if I was on 1-6 it would select 1-1).
Anybody has some work-around for this bug? Or if you successfully played the score with your keyboard sounds, could you share a screenshot of your setup? Thanks!
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Comments
MuseScore MIDI export includes setting the chosen sound patch banks; which is why your sound selection is "resetting" every time you restart playback. Because MuseScore is sending out the intended instrument for each staff.
In reply to MuseScore MIDI export… by jeetee
Thanks! Are you saying I cannot playing using MIDI keyboard's sound at all? That is possible because I did it once.
Or are you saying there is no way to play with a sound bank that is not 1-1, 2-1, 3-1? That seems weird. If Musescore can play with one sound bank, it makes more sense that Musescore choose the currently selected sound back instead of resetting to x-1. And why not reset to 1-1? Why resetting to the current group then the first slot?
Do you have a MIDI keyboard, can you share your I/O setup and results?
In reply to Thanks! Are you saying I… by namastella
I'm assuming that since MuseScore follows General MIDI it is not really aware of other sound banks at all and only sends the program change event; I'm equally assuming that your keyboard doesn't change banks if all it receives is a program change event.
I have no MIDI keyboard setup myself.
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