MDL Playback Audio Randomly Cuts Out

• Dec 6, 2019 - 02:53
Reported version
3.3
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Randomly
Status
needs info
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Hello MuseScore Team. I really love this program and have used it for the past year or so to compose drumline cadences. However, I have experienced errors during playback in MDL. Whenever I play back the audio of a score, the audio cuts in and out. Some of the notes do not play back, and it has become extremely frustrating. For example, if you have written a bar of 16th notes ("1e&a2e&a3e&a4e&a"), during playback you may hear "1e a2e&a a4 &a". It is completely random and unpredictable as to what notes will not play back. It happens whether I press the "Star or Stop Playback" button or the spacebar. With this problem, I thought that at least the full score would play back when I exported it as a WAV audio file, but no. This is also extremely frustrating because I used to export an audio file of a new cadence I composed and send it to my fellow drumline members for feedback, but I cannot do this anymore because the audio cuts out even when exported. This issue greatly takes away from the music composing experience and community.

It may be worth noting that I have noticed that there are only issues with the snare and tenor audio. I have not experienced this with bass or cymbal playback. I always choose "MDL Snare", "MDL Tenors", MDL Bass Line 5", and "MDL Cymbal Line". I do not know if this issue occurs with the other marching percussion instrument choices, but I assume it does.

I am using MuseScore 3.3.4.24412 revision 7684abe on a 2012 MacBook Pro with MacOS Mojave 10.14.5 installed (I also noticed these issues on a 2012 iMac running on Mojave). I have attached a MuseScore file of an unfinished cadence I was composing. You will find that when you play back the audio, notes will be dropped inconsistently.

I really hope this issue will be fixed very soon, because I really do love this program. Thank you for your time.

//Update only a few minutes later - The bass audio actually DOES also cut out. It did not the many times I played it back before, but now I am noticing that it does.

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Untitled Cadence 5.mscz 23.2 KB

Comments

• Dec 6, 2019 - 03:14
Frequency Once ⇒ Many

I have seen others of this same issue in the Issue Tracker. For example, "Playback Issues in MDL".

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• Dec 11, 2019 - 04:16
Status active ⇒ needs info

Please answer if there's any difference between your issue and the issue other threads reported. If not, please give us the link of other threads and close this one.

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