Playback in part view Musescore 4.1
This is one of the main reasons I have not moved up to to 4 from 3.6.2. I cannot see how I can have all instruments playing back while viewing an individual part. This is a key element of the way that I do my arrangements and also my rehearsal of parts. In MS3 there was a checkbox to untick and then all parts played in the background. Is it there somewhere in MS4 and I can't see it?
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No. Can you explain more about how you use this in your arranging workflow? So far the assumption is that this is more of a "practice" feature and has been prioritized accordingly, and the new design being developed would practically reflect that. If there is some sort of arranging use case, that would be good to understand.
In reply to No. Can you explain more… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc. Thanks for getting back to me. I arrange all the music for my two community bands I lead. One is acoustic folk rock with voice, guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, violins, flute and clarinet parts. The other is an rock ensemble, basically a rock band with horns (saxes, trumpets, and trombone). So far, I have arranged over 100 songs between the two bands using only MuseScore. Also your sister site Ultimate-Guitar.com is very helpful to me.
While all of the songs are well known, almost none of them have been arranged in the two formats I lead.
I will do most of my arrangement work in a full score view, but I like to switch to individual parts for finer work particularly in harmonies. There I can focus on the one instrument, but it is very helpful to play back that instrument while listening to the whole score to see that this particular part is sounding right. I do this a fair bit.
Yes, I also use it as a practice feature. This is what led me to MuseScore in the first place, before I ever realized I would be able to complete my own arrangements. I have been a bit slack about sharing arrangements on MuseScore.com, I am sorry to say. Mostly because, I have not quite got my head around the copyright issues.
Thanks again for your fantastic work! I have attached a sample of my work. Cheers.
In reply to Hi Marc. Thanks for getting… by Dave McGuinness
Can you explainer more abotu why you would switch to parts for "finer work particular in harmonie"? That's precisely the sort of work where most people would normally want to see - not just hear - the other notes.
Anyhow, it does sound the way you are using it for arranging is essentially the same as how someone might use it for practicing, so regardless of why you are doing this, it doesn't seem like any new capability would be required. I was just wanting to make sure you weren't using in some sort of arranging-specific way that no one had thought of and would thus require additional features to support well.
As for sharing arrangements on musecore.com, just publish them there normally. If musescore.com has a license agreement with the copyright owner that permits this, all will be fine. If not, the website will automatically mark your arrangement private. Either way, you don't have to do anything special other than identify which song your arrangement is of when they ask you, which is one of the first things you have to select in the dailog when publishing to that website.
For further discussion of msuescore.com, though, best to ask over there on that site.
In reply to Can you explainer more abotu… by Marc Sabatella
When I am arranging up to six horn parts in harmony, looking at them in score view can be a bit confusing for me. If it is one particular instrument I am concerned with, I can look at it in isolation, turn up the volume on that track and just listen carefully to what is happening. It is not a big thing I guess, but that with the inability to select individual voices from sound fonts which I use a lot has kept me in 3.6.
I am happy to wait until those features become available in future.
In reply to When I am arranging up to… by Dave McGuinness
You can already select individual Muse Sounds and VST instruments; no need to limit yourself to soundfonts anymore. But if you do have some specific soundfont you wish to still use that is not GM-compatiblew, or need to use a sound within a GM soundfont that isn't already available via the instrument list or corresponding text annotations, you can also select individual sounds within soudnfonts if they are split into separate files. See for example the version of MS Basic I provide here - https://community.masteringmusescore.com/c/resources/ms-basic-individua…. If you explain more about what you are using and why, we can understand and assist better. But meanwhile, a direct interface will be returning soon.