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• Sep 1, 2014 - 21:46

I have posted a few things here.on the sheet music pages - I have received constructive and positive comments. I am a professional (classical) composer

But what I hear when I post is not quite like that which I have written - the sound font seems different.

When I save (via MuseScore) as WAV and present to ''clients,"" I am very happy - and so are they. I can even produce (at considerable costfor them ) if they want it, a "performance'' via MuseScore - which I cannot do with Sibelius.

Further I hear some terrible automatic non-music on the sheet music page. I cannot help feeling that some of this is due simply to the presentation of the mscz file on this site - and not to the composers' ineptitude (although some of it clearly is).

My point is simply this: when I (or anyone else) posts here on the ''look at me'' sheet music page, we do not know whether the listener is hearing properly (even via a .mscz file) that which we have written. Good music may well ''shine through'' but I just wonder.

MuseScore is a compositional tool BUT, I find (as have educational establishments) the best program forpresentation. What good is writing music if you cannot present it? . It enables students via the "save as a copy: wav'' to hear their work in a more or less natural form. If they run that WAV file through an open source program such as Audacity to perhaps add a little bass or reverb then the results can be stunning.

The problem I have is that the examples posted on the sheet-music part of this MuseScore site sound terrible. What is going on?

IF

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• Sep 1, 2014 - 22:02

If you create something in MuseScore (the notation program) then upload it to musescore.com (the score sharing site) it should sound identical *if* you have used the default soundfont and not changed it to something else. Because musescore.com supports only the default soundfont.

if you have a score for which you are using the default soundfont but it sounds different on msuescore.com than in MuseScore on your computer, please post a link to the score on musescore.com and a copy of the audio file you hear on your computer.

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• Sep 1, 2014 - 22:36

Thanks so much for this

I do have the default.

My work is however not the problem; but those of others. They sound disjointed and unmusical. This cannot always be due to their lack of skill.

I do find that MuseScore is far better at presenting work (when ''save as copy - WAV) than any of the other programs. That's why I use it - even though I have (in the past) paid hundreds for other programs!

MuseSScore when saved as a copy WAV is by far the best program for composers/students to present their work - even almost use the program as an instrument in itself with dynamics and hairpins all observed.

It was just than the shared items (mine and others) seem not to represent this ''wonder.''

MuseScore is brilliant and not because it is free; but it is musical/natural. Perhaps it is its simplicity - but in my (professional) opinion it cannot better the paid for programs.

Just musing (!) why the sharing site seems not to be able to cope with that marvellous ability of MuseScore.

The next stage (in passing) is to enable MuseScore to ''sing'' words with a natural vocal synthesiser - cannot be too difficult with Spanish and Italian! Or perhaps we will have to use IPA or perhaps a dictionary approach. Now that would be a mind blowing achievement. If anyone can do it it would be MuseScore.

IF

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• Sep 2, 2014 - 02:35

Can you post a link to a score where you think there is a problem?

Again, the playback on musescore.com should be *exactly* the same as in the MuseScore program running on your computer with the default soundfont. As far as I know, that's how the sound is generated for the web site anyhow. So it should be essentially impossible for the playback on the web site to not sound like it does on your computer.

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