Can I use Muse Score for Movie soundtracks and Background Scores Professionally?
Hi Guys!
I've been using Sibelius for composing music for Full Films (Indian) that lasts 2.30 Hours (approximately) which includes Background Score and 4 to 6 songs each 5 Minutes longer (approximately).
Now I'm thinking to move from Sibelius to other applications due to annual costs of this Avid product. So I came across this muse score and interested to explore.
Would you please recommend this to fulfill my above needs? Can muse score do the above things which I have done from Sibelius?
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Just try it. Export your Sibelus scores as xml and import in MuseScore.
If your computer can handle a 2.3 hour film score I think Musescore can.
What you can do with Musescore:
Create mscz files for your scores
Use the terrible soundfont FluidR3Mono or scout out on the internet for better ones
Literally thousands of instruments (most of them are woodwind), but if you don't get a different soundfont it will be using for example, a b flat clarinet sound for a contrabass clarinet
export to dozens of popular formats including PDF and flac (not mp3)
and much more
Maybe you'll think the best part of Musescore is the forum.
In reply to If your computer can handle… by ♪𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯♪
Well, FluidR3Mono isn't terrible and mp3 export is possible
In reply to Well, FluidR3Mono isn't… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes it is possible if you download that partner program musescore uses. I'd rather just export to flac. Might as well if I'm going to be playing the file a lot with the Flacbox app.
And Fluid works fine for some genres, but it fails at being an orchestra.
In reply to Yes it is possible if you… by ♪𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯♪
Partner program? Not quite, just a Library, lame_enc.dll, which up to very recently could not get packaged with MuseScore because of license/patent issues. See #208006: Embed MP3 support by default
In reply to Partner program? Not quite,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ohh
It's been months since I tried to export to mp3 and I kind of forgot why I was using wav instead. But than I switched over to flac because I got the Flacbox app.
Can Musescore export to m4a? I've heard that this is an upgrade of mp3 and it might be better than flac.
In reply to Ohh… by ♪𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯♪
No
In reply to No by Jojo-Schmitz
I guess I'll have to download an audio conversion program to do this. What would be the best format to export to for conversion. I was thinking flac. Or mp3 if I can download that library. I now remember that I didn't want to download it mostly because lame is in the name.
In reply to I guess I'll have to… by ♪𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯♪
Any lossless sound format. That excludes mp3
It is possible with those, but not to be recommended
To answer a bit more broadly:
Yes, you can. You can in the technical sense - MuseScore is perfectly capable of creating music of any length and for any number of instruments. And you can in the legal sense - the MuseScore software and the default soundfont provided is completely free, no strings attached whatsoever.
Elsewhere on this thread you see some suggestions for alternate soundfonts which some people find better than the default (others find the default better than many of the alternatives suggested - it's really very subjective). You are welcome to search for ones that suit your needs, but note that some soundfonts are not completely - even though you can download and use them prviately for free, there are sometimes restrictions on commercial use of them. So if that is a concern, do be sure you choose appropriately. You can also use Jack to drive an external synthesizer or DAW program if you prefer getting your sounds that way.
From a practical perspective, MuseScore gets slowers to work with the larger your score is. I would not recommend creating a score for full orchestra that lasts for 2 hours. I would break it up int sections, making each a separate file. You can then export to audio format (WAV, MP3, and FLAC are all supported) and glue them together as necessary in your favorite audio / video editor.
In reply to To answer a bit more broadly… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks a lot Marc for the detailed info.
Thank you all for the valuable comments. I think It's good to go.
Thanks to all developers and programmers who have been doing such a valuable contribution.