Individual note panning and override note cut-off
Sometimes when we use a "not-so-great" SoundFont, the built-in panning may be different for the same instrument but a different sound. Note cutoff can also be wonky too. For example, a snare roll that sounds in the middle and does not immediately stop when the note is played, but a single snare strike would sound to the right and cutoff is normal. This means that either the score will sound weird, or the person will have to use a different SoundFont (which means no beautiful snare solos on a score). Other people like individual note panning and overriding note cutoff for the effect it may give. This opens new possibilities to things such as neat articulations and weird techno music.
To clarify, when I said "sound to the right" or "in the middle" I meant the location of the panning which you hear.
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While I don't disagree that playback improvements are a nice to have, I don't think it is MuseScores job to provide controls to "fix up" soundfonts. IMHO you should resort to a SoundFont editor for such a task.
In reply to While I don't disagree that… by jeetee
Except for possibly fixing the soundfont(s) MuseScore delivers (built in or via an extension)
In reply to Except for possibly fixing… by Jojo-Schmitz
Just an idea... Of course I can fix the SoundFont, and I know playback isn't the point of Musescore (yet playback and sheet music are still just as important to me), I just think it's more practical to do it this way. And I would like to use individual note panning for effect when composing anyways, this to me is an even more important reason because SoundFonts don't do that, there is no workaround.