How to get Musescore to playback correct instrument pitch?
I've been transposing a piece that was originally written for violin into alto sax for a while. I know I have correctly transposed the music because I've asked other musicians and played it myself on the alto sax and it sounds correct. The only problem is when I play the transposed piece on musescore along with a digital recording of the actual piece performed on violin it sounds super demonic and VERY wrong, but when I transpose the music back into its original form it but have it play back in alto sax, it sounds perfectly fine. I've been told this is because musescore is actually playing back the concert pitches on alto sax and not how the notes would actually sound on alto sax. Is there are way to fix this and get it to playback the actual Eb alto sax sound?
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Hmm. did you make sure that the concert pitch button is off? That would be the problem.
In reply to Hmm. did you make sure that… by ThePianoGuy22
Yeah, the concert pitch button is off. I may have just messed it up from the start. I originally entered the music as violin music then transposed it into saxophone.
To transpose from one instrument to another right click the staff, click the change instruments button to the left of the middle of the dialog and select the new instrument. Next, make sure the concert pitch button is not pressed. Finally, make sure all the notes are playable on the new instrument.
You've probably made it too complicated and transposed it yourself and it's now transposed wrong.
In reply to To transpose from one… by mike320
I think you are correct haha....I tried that and it did change the instrument to saxophone, however the notes and key signature were completely changed but when I played it it sounded exactly the same, i'm not quite sure if that was supposed to happen...
In reply to I think you are correct haha… by SapphireAndFriends
Transposing instruments (like most saxophones) have different notes and key signatures for the same note than concert pitch instruments like flutes and pianos. If you look at a jazz ensoemble score, for example, you will see the various key signatures of the different transposed instruments in the saxophones and trumpets. The other instruments in most jazz ensembles will be in concert pitch, but there are variations.
When a conductor says to play a Bb scale, The flute plays a Bb scale, the alto sax knows to play a G scale, the tenor sax plays a C scale, the french horn plays the F scale and so on.
In reply to I think you are correct haha… by SapphireAndFriends
Perhaps you entered them as transposed in a concert-pitch instrument first, then switched to a transposing element and are now surprised. You will have to use the transpose notes command to make the score correct, possibly with toggling the concert pitch button in the symbols bar.