Ideas
I like to transcribe music, so I think it would be awesome to have a feature to import an mp3 and select the point in the audio in which the track starts playing, this would make it so much better to hear if the notes are correct, instead of having to try and line it up in playback. Along with this, there could be a checkbox at the top to easily toggle on and off the audio without having to go into view or edit. This feature would be GREAT!!! I also have a question about why this program takes so long to load. I have a beast of a computer, with a 2tb SSD, and no HDD, everything should load just about instantly, even big games do, but musescore takes about 30 seconds to open... Will this be optimized in the future. Will, there ever be a musescore 4, if so, when is it likely to come out? Would it have better samples? Especially for percussion!?
This was an email i sent to their contact email and they told me to post it here, just if it sounds weird, it was meant to be read by someone at their support line...
Comments
I asked for a feature sort-of like this in the editor (associate an MP3 in the notation software to debug an eventual you-tube backed posting), and people I greatly respect (almost) convinced me I was being unreasonable....
In reply to I asked for a feature sort… by [DELETED] 1831606
If I remember the discussion correctly, I'd say there was widespread agreement that general idea of mp3 playback in sync with a score makes a lot of sense. There was disagreement regarding some specifics of the behavior and what type fo design would be the most useful to the most people. I think that's still an open question.
In reply to If I remember the discussion… by Marc Sabatella
That's not at all what I recall, but I'll sign on to this!
In reply to That's not at all what I… by [DELETED] 1831606
Since it’s relevant, feel free to find and link to the discussion you mean. Certainly the one I recall had no one disagreeing with the general principle of someday allowing MP3 playback.
In reply to Since it’s relevant, feel… by Marc Sabatella
I might be mistaken. I see no reason to pursue my possible misconception.... I remember "why not use some other app in parallel" and a lot of people simply not understanding my use-case.
mp3 play along is not on the schedule afaik. You can rout musescore via jack to other software likely better equipped for such a task.
Load times are very much dependant on the number of soundfonts you have configured, these are loaded/uncompressed during program start.
There are some plans in making this work better in the background/multithreaded; but I don't think many of those have made it passed the thought stage. At least I know that one guy within the development team wants this to happen as well.
Yes, there will be a MuseScore 4. Either when changes that break the file format compatibility are required. Or when some groundbreaking new feature is introduced (such as VST support).
3b. "When it's ready"
Soundfont changes happen independently of MuseScore releases. For percussion, specifically marching, check out the MDL extention, if you haven't already.
For future reference, "their support line" handles the mobile apps and the online score sharing platform musescore.com, but not the notation software itself. That is supported through these forums of musescore.org.
In reply to mp3 play along is not on the… by jeetee
In my case if I have an sfz font loaded in the synthesizer, MuseScore takes a while to start. Sf2 fonts don't seem to have much effect.
In reply to In my case if I have an sfz… by bobjp
SF2 samples are not compressed, so loading them is indeed a lot faster.
The penality is higher with SFZ as more parsing is involved, and I believe the highest for SF3, as there all samples are compressed on disk and are uncompressed at launch.
In reply to SF2 samples are not… by jeetee
and sf3 soundfonts get decompressed in the background, so starting is quick, but starting of playback is delayed.
MuseScore loads in a mattter of seconds for me, I agree it seems liek you probably already have some large soundfonts loaded. Normally I would guess you have installed MDL, which definitely slows things down a lot, but then you also specifically ask about better sounds for percussion, and really, it's hard to imagine something much better than MDL, which is one of the best there is. So, do you have MDL installed or not?