Staff Text Options for Organ and new midi
Can we please have at least a few selections for different registration on organ so that it doesn’t always sound the same.
Suggestions-
Flute Chorus: We could have an 8’ stopped flute and a 4’ open flute or just the 8 foot flute.
Strings: we could have an 8’ Viola da gamba and Celeste that goes with it like a vox Celeste with an 8’ gamba or something like that. Probably no Celeste for the pedal so probably like an 8’ gedackt and an 8’ gamba.
Principal Chorus: Principal 8’ and octave 4’.
Reeds: Trumpet and krumhorn 8’.
You could combine them together or mix them if you wanted and the default would be the principal chorus. Just an idea.
Comments
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Yes please!!
The fact that all the available organ soundfonts in MuseScore are basically different "full organ" sounds betrays a basic lack of understanding about the instrument on the part of the folks who design and program this software. "Full organ" is what you get when you "pull out all the stops" -- something organists do, I'd say, less than 5% of the time. Most of the time the organ is played using combinations like those Mr. Crisman suggests, and it surprises me that the designers and developers of software as sophisticated as MuseScore have not yet grasped that fact!
I would add to Mr. Crisman's suggestions:
a plenum (16, 8, 4, and 2-foot principals, plus a mixture)
a cornet (8, 4, and 2' principals, Nazard, Tierce)
a reed chorus (trumpets or similar stops at 16-, 8-, and 4-foot pitch)
full swell (preferably with a French Romantic quality! )
and at least one useful solo stop like an English Horn or clarinet, with tremulant.
In reply to Yes please!! The fact that… by doc867qu
Sorry, but even Sibelius, which is far more "sophisticated" than MuseScore, doesn't have a full range of stops. Much less a Swell. The short sighted developers made it easy to add vst's and sf2 and sf3 fonts for organ and other sounds. It is standard to be able to do so.
In reply to Sorry, but even Sibelius,… by bobjp
Noteperformer with Sibelius does.