Configuring the Correct Sound for Added Staff
I created a score in my MuseScore 3.6.2 and added a fiddle staff by pressing "i" and adding a piccolo staff, then changing it in the Mixer to "Fiddle". This produced a beautiful sound. For my next score I tried the same technique but the "Fiddle" sound does not sound as rich as the first sound. Furthermore, the first Fiddle in the mixer says "Fid.-normal" in the fader column and the second Fiddle in the mixer says "Fid.-Arco". Am I missing some configuration setting here?
Thanks.
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If you want a fiddle, use fiddle! Right click on the staff and in stave properties change the instrument to violin. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/staff-part-properties
Or if you have opened your v3 score in v4 see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/working-instruments#replace
Musescore knows what instruments can do, but you have to give it a chance by using the correct one when you set up the score. If you try pizzicato on your piccolo that sounds like a violin it won't work as you can't pluck a picc!
In reply to If you want a fiddle, use… by SteveBlower
My MuseScore 3.6.2 does not have "Fiddle" in the Instruments dialog, only "Violin", as shown. I added a Violin staff and then changed that violin sound to "Fiddle" in the mixer, but it still does not match the "Fiddle" sound that I added with my first score even when I change it to "Fiddle".
Also, in the fader column for the new Violin -> Fiddle says simply "Vin.-Arco", not "Fid.-Normal" as the fader column in the first score says. I'm thinking that I somehow configured the Fiddle in the first score in some way to get that beautiful sound, but what was it? The settings in the Staff/Part Properties for the staff in each score seem to be the same.
Thanks for your help.
In reply to My MuseScore 3.6.2 does not… by newjim999
Please share both scores, the working and the non-working one
There a Fiddle and Fiddle expr. sound in the MeseScore soundfont
In reply to Please share both scores,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for looking at this, Jojo.
- Vancouver Shores Background 2 Less Percussion with the Fiddle staff is the one that has the beautiful violin sound
- Sea Island Grass Background with the Fiddle staff is the one that I WANT to sound like the fiddle in Vancouver shores.
In reply to Thanks for looking at this,… by newjim999
"Vancouver Shores Background 2 Less Percussion" starts from a "Piccolo (flute)" and changes its sound to "Fiddle" (probably better should be "Fiddle expr.", for supporting single note dynamics).
"Sea Island Grass Background" starts from "Violin" and changes its "arco" channel to "Fiddle" (but see above), not touching (nor using) its "pizzicato" or "tremolo" channels (i.e. leaving them at their defaults).
To me both sound alike (once soloed)
In reply to "Vancouver Shores Background… by Jojo-Schmitz
To me the fiddle in Vancouver Shores sounds smoother and has more resonance, and I still haven't figured out why it says "Fid.-normal", whereas the fiddle in Sea Island Grass says "Fid.-arco".
At any rate, I changed the "Usable pitch range" of Sea Island Grass to match that of Vancouver Shores, and to me it now sounds closer to the fiddle in Vancouver Shores. Maybe I am dreaming and they are both the same, as you have suggested.
Thanks for looking into this, Jojo.
In reply to To me the fiddle in… by newjim999
Violin has an "acro", "pizzicato" and "tremolo" channel, hence you see those when deriving your Fiddle from Violin.
Most other instruments, like your Piccolo, have only one channel, named "normal".
All get an additional one, "harmony" or "chord syms.", when chord symbols get added