disable string portamento when not notated?
musescore will occasionally playback string instrument notes with a portamento effect, despite there being no portamento or glissando notated.
happens both with solo strings and string sections.
is there any way to disable this, or is it baked/hardcoded into the samples?
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Don't use solo or string sections "1". Use "2" instead. Not as bad.
In reply to Don't use solo or string… by bobjp
?? I don't know what you are talking about.
In reply to ?? I don't know what you are… by lbonocchi
In the mixer, you can select the sound you want to use. For example for violin sections you have the choice of "Violins 1" or "Violins 2". These labels do not refer to desks, they refer to playing style. "1" is more "expressive" than 2. That's all. So, solo violin 1, has all the portamento. Solo violin 2 has much less.
Depending on the music "1" might fit. I haven't found any yet. But you never know. In all cases so far, I use "2".
Surprisingly the portamento is baked in. Word has it: there's no remedy until development creates a new library.
https://musescore.org/en/node/358910
In reply to Surprisingly the portamento… by scorster
Except it's not completely baked in, there are cases where you can avoid it with various workarounds.
I.e. the existing set of recorded samples are capable of producing the expected sound (as a simple example, you can use two separate instruments both using e.g. Muse Sounds Violin 1 and alternate notes between them and the playback sounds far better than when keeping all the notes in one instrument).
In reply to Except it's not completely… by Dylan Nicholson1
I took this reply to mean that until MuseSounds makes new samples we're stuck with gratuitous portamento in Violin 1...
i appreciate you offering a workaround instruction. Do you have an example score that demonstrates it?
scorster
In reply to I took this reply to mean… by scorster
For solo strings, add Staff text, click in the speaker and select "expressivo". This takes the portamento out.
In reply to For solo strings, add Staff… by bobjp
For you does it still play all articulations in that case? There was definitely something that didn't sound right when I tried that.
In reply to For you does it still play… by Dylan Nicholson1
So yeah, I can't hear staccato or accent working for "expressivo" sound flag, and worse, the low A has a "built-in" accent on it. (Actually, I don't really think accents work as expected without that sound flag - in fact they also remove the portamento/chorus effect, and if anything make the notes sound slightly quieter! But staccato works well - at least for shorter notes - I logged an issue around how bizarrely short staccato is on slower notes, and I definitely need it for what I've been working on, so I can't use the expressivo sound flag, unless I kept turning it on and off, which I suppose is a possibility)
In reply to So yeah, I can't hear… by Dylan Nicholson1
I wonder what "espressivo" is supposed to do. You would think it would make things worse.