Two-tone woodblocks not working in MuseScore 4
Since upgrading to MS 4 I've found that adding in high and low tone woodblocks no longer works.
See attached doc.
Is there a fix for this?
Many thanks,
Will
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| Mary Had A Little Lamb.mscz | 18.67 KB |
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Sorry. Accidentally added this here rather than under support section. Can an admin please move it? Thanks.
In reply to Sorry. Accidentally added… by willh
I take it there's no fix for this, then.
It's a shame. Upgrades are great when they expand the product's usability, but when they kill bread-and-butter functions, I'd say it's a step backwards, not forwards.
In reply to I take it there's no fix for… by willh
Try this.
Select all the high notes in the staff and use F8/Playback to change the tuning
In reply to Try this. Select all the… by Shoichi
Thanks, Shoichi, for taking the time to look at and correct this.
I'm on a Mac, so when I press F8 I don't get an option to change any of the sounds associated with the notes.
I've had a dig around through the menu options, but I can't find a way to do this.
Are there any other Mac users who might know how to find and use this option?
Thanks,
Will
In reply to Thanks, Shoichi, for taking… by willh
Ciao Will, F8 opens the Properties tab that replaced Inspector
In reply to Ciao Will, F8 opens the… by Shoichi
Ciao, Shoichi!
I'm sorry to say that making the same changes on my system does not affect the pitch of the woodblocks in any way.
I even went to an extreme and changed the note tuning value to 100.00 cents, but the pitch is still the same for both blocks, high and low. :(
It's very disappointing. I'm not a software developer, so I'm sure my observations have little value, but I'm always puzzled how a simple bit of functionality always seems to be ruined when a new version of a product comes out.
I'll just have to go back to including a bass drum and a hand clap track to each score, then manually adding in beats on 1 & 3 for the bass drum and 2 & 4 on the hand claps and working from there.
That automatically doubles the amount of work I have to do for a piece of music, but it's important that students clearly hear and feel the difference between the beats.
Thanks again for your time and help. I appreciate it.
Will
In reply to Ciao, Shoichi! I'm sorry to… by willh
In the *.mscz file I attached above (if you downloaded it check it) I set one to 500 and the other to -500. I am just a simple user and just testing, so I don't know how to help you better.
In reply to In the *.mscz file I… by Shoichi
Thanks, Shoichi. You've been a great help.
Yes, I did download that file, but didn't realise I needed to make such a massive change in the values. And when changing the higher value didn't affect the sound, I figured the same applied to the lower value.
I've saved the file you fixed up for me as a template and deleted the other instrument, so I just have a woodblock template file I can use.
Many thanks for your help and I hope you have a good weekend,
Will
In reply to Thanks, Shoichi. You've been… by willh
Thank you for the feedback. Buona musica!
In reply to Thank you for the feedback… by Shoichi
Nulle causa!
Io valuta vermente tu adjuta!
Bon vespere e un bon fin de septimana!
Will
In reply to In the *.mscz file I… by Shoichi
I had 5 temple blocks working as wood blocks in MS 3 per https://musescore.org/en/node/273872, but the temple blocks sounded more like a xylophone. I decided to try MS 4 so I could us MS percussion sound fonts for a more realistic sound. However, the MS percussion SFs did nothing when I tried to change the pitches, so I set it back to MS Basic. I guess I'll have to create my own SFs.
In reply to I had 5 temple blocks… by Dougy Drumz
That's interesting. Thanks for sharing that, Dougy.
Odd, isn't it? I hope the developers can sort this out soon.