Instrument Selection Improvement

• Dec 22, 2022 - 17:33
Reported version
4.x-dev
Type
Ergonomical (UX)
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

A minor annoyance is that every time I go to Instrument/Add/ the group has defaulted to Common.
If I'm testing different instruments that don't appear in the Common group I have to Click Common again and scan down the list and select the group I'm working with.
I think it would be better to default to the last group opened or at the very least All Instruments. Perhaps there could be a setting so people could chose which is the default.
I hope this information is useful.

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Comments

• Dec 23, 2022 - 09:01
Frequency Once ⇒ Few
Type Functional ⇒ Ergonomical (UX)

I agree, if you're spending a lot of time fiddling with the instrumentation and you're using non-common instruments, it is a minor annoyance to have to keep selecting the right group.

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• Mar 16, 2025 - 17:32
Frequency Few ⇒ Many

This is especially true when you've paid for specific sound fonts but they're all jumbled up among the many selections. When you change instruments in the Mixer, you get a FAR BETTER user experience. I don't understand why this workflow is ONLY available in the mixer, where I suspect very few of your users even think to look?

The drop-down interface is terrible. But the organization is far better. Why not adopt a similar "family" structure where the top level is Musesounds, VST and SoundFonts?

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