Softer Trumpet Soundfont
I like using the default sound fonts for the instrument selection I use for my scores. It's much easier and faster to set up. It also allows perfect audio playback on the musescore website (I've had issues with sound fonts playback as different instruments in the score manager before, but I won't get into that). I've been using the default trumpet sound font for many years now, and I'm starting to dislike it. it's too harsh with its tone, especially when I'm writing soft ballads or quiet dynamic pieces. Even if I put the instrument at the lowest dynamic you can go and change every instrument up a couple of dynamics, the trumpet will still pierce its sound over everything else. I've also noticed that when you have multiple different trumpet parts playing the same note (trumpet 1, 2, and 3 playing the same note...example, staff G), it will distort the audio and play it incredibly loud. No other instruments that I've written for have done this, besides the trumpet. Are there any sound fonts out there that I could use that have the most elegant trumpet sound? (that also works for marching band composition
If not, is there any way that it could be created and added to the sound font page?
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I, too, use the default font. Well the HQ version, that is.
You observation on what happens when the trumpet doubles a note holds true to some degree for any instrument sound. Some worse than others. If you look at the list of violin sounds, you will see that there are (for example) violins and violins 2. They are different enough that if the sections double a note the sound doesn't go odd. Yet there are no such different sounds for any other instruments.
The default trumpet and horn are not solo instruments. I write solo horn parts often. I have borrowed solo horn and trumpet sounds from another font. The problem is that they don't respond to Single Note Dynamics the way the default sounds do.
Having the same note played by the same sound sample at the same time more than once at a time produces a known audio artifact that's just part of the nature of digital audio. Best to simply not do that, no matter what soundfont or program you're dealing with. Mute all but one, or just different soundfonts for different trumpets, or adjust the start time of one note, etc.
In reply to Having the same note played… by Marc Sabatella
Or slighly detune all but one of them