Soundfont
Hi,
does anyone know, if I want a certain soundfont for my score (under Synth.) what I'll have to do?
Save to Score - Load from Score or Set as Default - Load default.
As far as I know Default means ''absence".
Thanx,
Frans
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By the way, changing my FluidR3sf2-sounfont in TimGM6mb.sf2 makes that certain notes don't produce a sound.
Normally, changing soundfont affects MuseScore not just for the current score but for all scores. And the information about what soundfont to use is not saved as part of the score but as part of MuseScore's preferences - if you use the Set as Default. I believe Save / Load is to save the soundfont info to the score and then load it later, if you want one score to use a different soundfont than others. I think even if you save the soundfont to the score, it isn't loaded until you explicitly load it, because loading a soundfont is pretty expensive and you might not really want to do it all the time (like everytime you switch tabs between open scores). Hopefully that helps. Not sure if you want to literally change the soundfont for just one score or not.
As for some notes not playing, which soundfont, which instrument, which notes? Usually, that would be happen only for notes that are not physically playable on the instrument.
Thanx Marc for your explanation.
Yes, I want to use a certain soundfont for one particular score.
It's because one soundfont has f.i. better brass-sounds than the other, and for a score with plenty of brass in it, I like to switch my soundfont in that score.
I told about a note, that doesn't sound by switching to another soundfont.
If you will look at the attachment below, you hopefully will see, what I mean.
Change under Synth, as you will know, the soundfont into the TimGM6mb.sf2-font, go up and down with the note in the Alt-sax score, and you'll hear at one place, depending on the key, no sound. (using Beta 2.0)
Maybe a bug?
Gr. Frans
In reply to Soundfonts by karelmollen
Cannot reproduce this with TimGM6mb.
MuseScore 2 beta
Windows 8.1 pro
In reply to Soundfonts by karelmollen
Which note (pitch) specifically are you having problems with? As mentioned, once you get outside the playable range of the instrument, it's normal that there might not be sound.
In reply to Which note (pitch) by Marc Sabatella
As I said, if you look at the attachment. click on the altsax-note, and let it go up and down the staff, using the Tim-soundfont, there is a place where it doesn't sound, depending which key it is in.
This is not about the playable range, as you will see.
Frans
In reply to As I said, if you look at by karelmollen
I was hoping you'd tell us which note specific doesn't sound. Do I have to move all the way 34 ledger lines above the staff before it stops sounding? Every note in the playable range of a saxophone plays for me, and for as far as I bothered to test beyond the playabale range as well using TimGM6mb (Fluid stops about an octave above the highest normally playabale note).
So if you tell me which *specific* note you are having problems with, I could look deeper to see if there is something special going on there that might possibly trigger problems even though it works fine for me. As it is, though, I simply cannot reproduce your problem or hazard any guesses as to why it's a problem for you but not for anyone else.
EDIT: I suppose it's possible we are working with different versions of the soundfont. For TimGM6mb, I'm using the one downloaded from this site via the Soundfont section in the Handbook. For Fluid, I'm using the current version included with MuseScore development builds.
In reply to I was hoping you'd tell us by Marc Sabatella
Oké Marc,
if you open the attachment, using the Tim-font, its in both Alt-sax staffs the C#.
Not the one below or above the lines, but the centered one.
No sound at all in my case.
Gr. Frans
In reply to Oké Marc, if you open the by karelmollen
Still can't reproduce in Windows 8.1
What's your OS Frans?
In reply to Still can't reproduce in by ChurchOrganist
Windows 7.
I just opened a new score, with C-trumpet and Alt-saxophone in it.
In the Fluid-font everything worked; in the Tim-font again no C#-sound.
Gr. Frans
In reply to I just opened a new score, by karelmollen
I wonder if your copy of TimGM6mb has somehow become corrupted.
Perhaps you could try a reinstall?
You can download it from here: http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/Timidity.htm#sf2
No result!
I downloaded it and don't know actually what to do next.
When I go to my Downloads and try to open the Soundfont, Musescore says: "Cannot open it.; unknown type".
Also when I double-click on the Fluid-font, which I'm working with for quite a time, Musescore says the same.
I eventhough have them both in my scores, so that will be alright, I think.
So, the problem with the alt-sax hasn't been solved.
Never the less: thanx .
Frans
In reply to No result! I downloaded it by karelmollen
Check http://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfont#MuseScore-settings
In reply to No result! I downloaded it by karelmollen
Have you unzipped the file?
In reply to Have you unzipped the file? by ChurchOrganist
To be honest, I don't know, but I think non of my soundfonts would work, if I hadn't unzipped them.
Like I said, in my Downloads, all of the soundfonts don't open by clicking on them ("file unknown"), yet I do make scores with them in Musescore.
In reply to To be honest, I don't know, by karelmollen
Did you read http://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfont#MuseScore-settings? It says there explicitly not to (double-)click them...
In reply to To be honest, I don't know, by karelmollen
Does the soundfont have .zip at the end or .sf2 ??
In reply to Does the soundfont have .zip by ChurchOrganist
And do you have configured your system to see the extensions?