Music Playback - Increase amount of instruments
I was hoping that Musescore 3 would have fixed the limited playback feature of musescore 2, but it has not.
Can someone increase the amount of available instruments for playback in a single score? For each instrument in a full score, I have solo and section, as well as sustain, staccato, accent, (as well as pizzicato and tremolo) for others. All of the available playback channels are taken up very very quickly before I can even load 50% of the orchestra into musescore with SFZ packs. My computer is far able in memory allocation to load all of those simultaneously. And even if they are not able to play together at once, it would seem that an instrument should at least be allowed to be heard when set "solo" in the mixer even if this limit is exceeded -- but it doesn't even load them at all.
So, can you PLEASE do a simple edit and increase the variable that limits the number of max instruments loaded, and recompile. I can see in the code where that simple limitation variable can be changed in a couple seconds. I would think changing it from 64 to 512 would be far enough and then allow each person's computer ability to be the limitation instead of the problem.
Thanks,
Andrew
Comments
Do this yourself. Make a copy of the instruments.xml file and edit it in WordPad. Channels look like this:
You can duplicate and edit the code. To use in Musescore edit your preferences to load the edited file instead of the given one. Do not try to load both. Mine only has normal, pizz, trem, solo, martelato, and marcato but it may give you some idea.
In reply to Do this yourself. Make a… by ♪𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯♪
I've done all of that. The problem is that musescore will not allow more than 64 (I think) SFZ instruments loaded per project for playback.
In reply to I've done all of that. The… by lordskylark
Sorry, I misread. I do not know how to help you with that. It may be possible to have the contrabasses on the same sfz as the violins. You can use polyphone to convert sfzs to sf2s but that reduces playback capabilities. What sfzs do you use? I would like to try them.