Bass Clarinet Range and Playback
The Bass Clarinet needs a bit of work. The range needs to include the extended range (concert C, B, and Bb). The range also needs to be slightly higher (up to a very high concert C#).
Also, the playback for the low notes is delayed the further you are going down. It is frustrating when I have 16th, even 8th notes that are inaudible and are important to be heard. It also sounds weird when there is a long low note that comes in a fraction late to where it should be. Obviously, as you go into the very low clarinets, (Contra-alto, Contrabass) it gets even worse. Can it please be fixed because it is frustrating me and I am missing a lot of important Contrabass, Contra-alto, Bass, and even Alto Clarinet parts that should be heard.
P.S. Please no later than the release of Musescore 3 :)
Comments
I believe this is fixed already in ChurchOrganist's latest version of Fluid,R3Mono, see https://musescore.org/en/node/41521,or is is being worked on. See #56421: Bass clarinet playback delayed
Are you talking about written pitch or sounding pitch here?
Also, can you be more specific on the pitches - "concert" is meaningless. Either give MIDI note numbers, or use Helmholtz or Scientific notation.
In reply to Are you talking about written by ChurchOrganist
Sorry, I'm talking about from a Sounding Pitch of Bb1 through to a C#6. The Bb1, B1 and C2 are all part of the extended low notes range.
In reply to Sorry, I'm talking about from by McTaggartB
Thanks for that :)
I've just tweaked my Clarinet soundfont to reflect that.
See https://musescore.org/en/node/52271 making sure you scroll to the bottom of the thread.
In reply to Thanks for that :) I've just by ChurchOrganist
Just to be clear, the Bass Clarinet has the exact same range as a regular clarinet, just an octave down. Those extra pitches below a concert D3 need to be yellow, as extended range Bass clarinets are professional/semi-professional. As for high notes...
As with all wind instruments, the upper limit of the range depends on the quality of the instrument and the skill of the performer. According to Aber and Lerstad, who give fingerings up to written C8 (sounding B♭6), the highest note commonly encountered in modern solo literature is the E below that (sounding D6, the first D above the treble clef).[4] This gives the bass clarinet a usable range of over four octaves, quite close to the range of the bassoon; indeed, many bass clarinetists perform works originally intended for bassoon or cello because of the plethora of literature for those two instruments and the scarcity of solo works for the bass clarinet.
from wikipedia.