Choosing instruments: Mixer vs. Instruments > Add
I am a little bit confused here. It looks like we have two different ways of adding instruments to the score. One is the old way - just like it was in MS3 - via the Mixer. There you can click on the name of any sound and change the instrument from a line of drop-down menus. And in MS4 we have another additional way: Instruments > Add.
What's the essential difference between these two ways? It look like the old way has a bigger variety of instruments.
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In the Mixer you can change exististing instruments' sounds, same as in Mu3, at least similar, yopu cannot add instruments there.
In Instruments > Add you can add (or remove) instruments. Same dialog existed in Mu3 (just the way there was a bit different), you cannot change sounds there.
In reply to In the Mixer you can change… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you, but hmm... It looks like, surprisingly, I don't know the very basics here. Doesn't each instrument have its own unique sound? How is it then that we can change the sound, but not the instrument, or that we can change the instrument, but not the sound?
In reply to Thank you, but hmm... It… by innerthought
There's no 1-to-1 relationship between the list of instruments MuseSore supports and the list of sounds available in General MIDI
In reply to There's no 1-to-1… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. Somehow I forgot that General MIDI was not something specifically provided by MuseScore.