Mixer (maybe soundfont) problem MS3

• May 18, 2019 - 19:21

This happens every time. If I create a piece with any instrument (other than piano) the instruments aren't correct. The clarinets have a piano patch, Violin 1 & 2 have the oboe patch as well as violincello and contrabasses, oboes and flutes have the organ patch, bassoons have B3 Fast Leslie, etc... Why is it preset to the wrong instrument? I don't like to constantly go back to fix it. What do I do?

Comments

mike320

• May 18, 2019 - 19:25

If you look in the synhthesizer you will likely see a sound font listed first that is probably piano only. You need the sound font with other instruments listed first.

Nico23_

• May 19, 2019 - 18:46

I also have this issue, except the instruments are mixed with different instruments than the original post. I only have one soundfont loaded though. Is there another solution?

Marc Sabatella

• May 19, 2019 - 18:55

Hard to say without seeing your score and knowing what soundfont you have loaded.

Nico23_

• May 20, 2019 - 00:20

Oh, my bad. Probably should have specified.

Here's the soundfont I tried. It worked perfectly fine right after installation.
https://musescore.org/en/node/153741

Also, I tried on some of my scores and I created some test songs. They all had this issue.

Ziya Mete Demircan

• May 20, 2019 - 02:47

The instrument placements of this soundfont isn't in accordance with the GM specification.

GM instrument placement is:

000:000 Acoustic Grand Piano
000:001 Bright Acoustic Piano
000:002 Electric Grand Piano
000:003 Honky-tonk Piano
000:004 Electric Piano 1
000:005 Electric Piano 2
000:006 Harpsichord
000:007 Clavi
000:008 Celesta
000:009 Glockenspiel
000:010 Music Box
000:011 Vibraphone
000:012 Marimba
000:013 Xylophone
000:014 Tubular Bells
000:015 Dulcimer
...

and so on (for complete list see: https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/gm-level-1-sound-set )

Either you'll just stick to this soundfont, and you'll hear the music of others (scores) created in the standard layout incorrectly and when you add the instrument from the instrument selection it will always be different from what you choose or you'll find a soundfont that complies with the GM specification (Like the soundfont that comes with Musescore).

Marc Sabatella

• May 20, 2019 - 03:03

Or, if you do want to use this soundfont. you'll simply have to go to View / Mixer and fix up every instrument to use the correct. That's the price of using a non=GM-standard soundfont - MuseScore won't know which patches correspond to which instruments.

Nico23_

• May 21, 2019 - 00:09

Oh neat! Thanks a ton for all of this!