Android App Showing Different Notes
On the desktop application and on the website, my score: https://musescore.com/user/13724246/scores/4998310 has no sharps or flats in it. On my phone, a ZTE ZMAX2, it has multiple sharps on each instrument, and a few of the notes are a full octave higher than they should be. I don't know if this is intentional but it is a bit annoying as it plays it about halfway between what it should be and what it actually is set to through the musescore software. Thanks in advance!
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The score is uploaded in concert pitch. Since I don't have the Android app, I'm guessing the score is being played in transposed pitch (which would put sharps in the keys). You are seeing how, especially the also sax, is a transposing instrument.
Indeed, this is exactly correct. Perhaps you are unaware of how transposing instruments work - you might try reading the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument if so. but what you are seeing in the app is what a saxophonist would need to see in order to get the sounds you wrote. You'll see exactly the same if you press the Concert Pitch button within MuseScore itself. The soprano sax needs to read music transposed up a whole step, alto up a major sixth, tenor an octave plus a whole step, baritone an octave plus a sixth - all with the corresponding adjustments to key signatures as well. The MuseScore app does this for you automatically.
The sound is actually exactly the same as within MuseScore - well, in terms of pitches anyhow - the soundfont is different. Perhaps the different soundfont is fooling you into thinking the pitches are different as well, but play them both at the same time and you should here them syncing. At least it does on my iPhone; it's possible there is some issue with playback on Android specifically.