Instrument changes
Could somebody explain the relationship between the instruments available in the Mixer and the instruments available when you use the change instruments text. They seem to be different sets? What I would like to do quite often is set an instrument via the mixer (as the mixer seems to have different sounds available) change the sound mid piece (same staff), via change instrument, then revert back to the original sound. There seems to be no way of doing this? Hope this makes sense. Thanks
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Mixer shows the soundfont's sounds, Instrument change shows instruments. There are far more instruments than sounds
In reply to Mixer shows the soundfont's… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks Jojo. Not on my installation (in regard to there being many more instruments than sounds) - maybe I need to download some more instruments. If I'm scoring a single staff is there any way of skipping from a soundfont sound to an instrument then back again? For example: I started a piece with a distorted guitar - I chose this from the Mixer because there's no distorted guitar sounds in instruments. I then want to play a few bars using an organ sound. I have to use instrument change to do this. How now after these few bars do I revert to the distorted guitar sound? I know MuseScore is notation-centric and it's not a big deal, I just find the two paths for instrument selection a little confusing.
In reply to Thanks Jojo. Not on my… by richard.garrod
A GM soundfont has 128 sounds. MuseScore has far more instruments.
In reply to Thanks Jojo. Not on my… by richard.garrod
Distorted guitar is not the name of an instrument - it is the name of a sound. "Guitar" - or "Electric guitar" - is the name of the instrument. So, you add that instrument to your score, then use the mixer is desired to select the distored guitar sound for that isntrument during the computer-generated playback. Now, if you want the human musician your score to physically put the guitar down half way through and instead sit down at an organ and start playing it, you could indeed put an instrument change into your score. But is that really your intent? Isn't it more likely these are two different musicians? In which case, you should have two different staves. Have the guitar notes on the guitar staff, the organ notes on the organ staff, and everyone is happy.
Change the instrument with text in the score and change the sound in the mixer if needed for each sound change on a staff you want. When you change the instrument new channels are created for each instrument change.