Musescore Mixer and Playback sounds
So I am having some issues. I installed a soundfont I really like, and it sounds really good. The only problem is whenever I make a new score and pick instruments, the instrument I pick doesn't match up with the correct sound. Like a Piano will play back with the piccolo sound and a Bass Guitar will play back with a French horn sound and so on. I am wondering if anyone knows how to change what sound is picked by default and have it set that way permanently? It's not too much trouble to have to go into the mixer and change every instrument I want to use to the right one, but it would be simpler if I could just save it this way.
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If you make a score with your most common instruments and save it as a template, the mixers settings will be loaded when you use it. You can then delete any unwanted instruments or add less commonly used instruments and have to change fewer settings.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/create-new-score#User-template-folder
In reply to If you make a score with your by mike320
How do you save it as a template?
Edit: figured out how to save as a template, but that's not exactly what I had in mind.
In reply to How do you save it as a by King_Bradford
It's the best way I know of to make it easier than changing every mixer setting every time you make a new song.
Two ways to get what you want might be:
1) set up a custom instruments.xml file to tell MuseScore the association between instruments and sounds in your soundfont, then tell MuseScore to use your customi version in Edit / Preferences / Score
or
2) edit the soundfont to rearrange the voice assignments to make it General MIDI comaptible
In reply to Two ways to get what you want by Marc Sabatella
That sounds good but I have no idea how to do either of those things.
In reply to That sounds good but I have by King_Bradford
I can't really help for 2) except to suggest you do a search for soundfont editors and information on that topic. For 1), I can suggest you go to Edit / Preferences / Score, find the instruments.xml file that is already configured there, open it in a text editor, study it, and then see if that's enough to get you started. Should just be a matter of changing patch numbers to match whatever your favorite soundfont came up with. Or maybe just email the person who developed that soundfont and ask them if they ever considered making a GM-compatible version. Seems crazy that people wouldn't.
In reply to I can't really help for 2) by Marc Sabatella
When I try to open the destination of the instruments.xml file it says it doesn't exist
What OS? What path are you trying to open? What program are you trying to open it with?
In reply to What OS? What path are you by Marc Sabatella
I'm using Windows 8. When I go to the Preferences -> Score it says ":/data/instruments.xml" so I click the little folder button and then nothing opens.
In reply to I'm using Windows 8. When I by King_Bradford
Ah, yes. :data isn't a real folder; it's compiled into the application itself. For Windows 8, look at C:\Program Files (x86)\MuseScore, probably the templates folder under there.
In reply to Ah, yes. :data isn't a real by Marc Sabatella
Ok so I have the file open and I see this
![Piccolo.PNG]( "Piccolo.PNG")
Is the "program value" something I should change? Or is that something different than what you're talking about?
In reply to Ok so I have the file open by King_Bradford
That's the number indeed. You need to find out how the designer of your soundfobt organized things and it in the correct number. Then save the result somewhere to your own folder - not MuseScore's - and use that dialog to tell MuseScore where to find yours.
In reply to That's the number indeed. by Marc Sabatella
How should I go about finding how the soundfont was organized?
In reply to How should I go about finding by King_Bradford
Either one it in a soundfont editor, write the person who created it, or maybe try asking here.
In reply to How should I go about finding by King_Bradford
Adding the soundfont in MuseScore and in mixers menu count the position