Slides for orchestral stringed instruments now completely unusable: Playback is acting like full-on gliss between previous notes instead of respecting rests, as well as merging other notes together!

• Jan 12, 2025 - 01:14

Musescore Version / OS info (copied directly from 'About'): OS: Windows 11 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.4-243461245, revision: 2232670

Playback for sliding into or out of a note for violin/viola/cello/etc. orchestral stringed instruments (NOT gliss, but rather the "slide in below" and "slide out down" options, which is what I'm using here) have always sounded pretty bad when they even do play back, and often cause the note to not even be played back at all; however, today when I went to use them there's some new bug that has caused them to just become completely unusable: The "slide in below" is completely ignoring any rests before it and just acting like one long gliss from the previous note (while also adding in other weird sounds, as if it's sliding from an even lower note?), even occasionally overwriting the sound of the previous note entirely. The slides are also way too long (as in the 'slide out down' example in the attached score).

I was able to make it finally sound correct going in to the note by using a 'grace note bend' from the guitar palette instead; however, if I do that, then at the very end of the note the bend is attached to, you'll hear the lower note it slid from again almost like an unwritten grace note back down, which is NOT how this score needs to sound. :(

(And yes, I know I could just highlight the slides and uncheck "Play," which would then have them just sound like unembellished notes; but that kind of defeats the purpose of having example audio... :\ )

Steps to repeat the issue: Make a score for an orchestral stringed instrument (in this case violin), and then add a "slide in below" to a note when there are notes and/or rests written before it.

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