WAV export seems inconsistent
I am using WAV files to export MUSEscore to my DAW. When I export "violins" as a separate WAV file, it comes through nicely and, as I would expect, as simply the violin track. However, when I export "clarinet", it disconcertingly includes other tracks from MUSEscore: piano, voice, and contrabass. I can't seem to get an isolated clarinet wave file. I'd appreciate any help you can offer here. Thanks.
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Attach your score. It's usually not possible to resolve problems (save the very simplest and most common) from only a verbal description of the symptoms.
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Yes! I'm having the same issue. I thought I was going crazy! It's been doing this for weeks.
I have a lot of things automated, so I was incredibly confused when users of the files I create were telling me they weren't right.
I've attached one of the files that's doing this for me (oddly, it doesn't seem to be all .mscz files, but this is one of them). I've also attached a screenshot of the waveforms for two of the parts. One can easily see that they are the same, and they should not be, nor should they contain the click track.
In reply to Yes! I'm having the same… by tonnyx
For whatever reason, removings parts (and creating them again) seems to do the trick: 1BeThouMyVision-Frizzell.mscz
Perhaps it would have been enough to reset them, but I was in a hurry, and it's faster this way. :)
In reply to For whatever reason,… by cadiz1
Thank you! Can you be more specific about what you mean by removing parts and creating them again? Like copy and re-paste? And what do you mean by resetting them?
In reply to Yes! I'm having the same… by tonnyx
When I open @tonnyx's MSCZ file and export all the parts to .WAV, all of the part files (except for the Wood Blocks) contain all/most (?) of the other parts. This happens even if I mute the Wood Block part in the Mixer.
I noticed that the parts appear to be connected as two piano staves (?). I tried to explicitly change the sounds associated with each part to a Vocal sound (the piece appears to be intended to be SSAATTBB?). When I did this, all the parts export silence, except that the Wood Block part sounds only the Wood Block and the combined part has the sound of all parts.
I created a test score with different instruments. It exports correctly: each part into its own .WAV file with no overlap.
I compared the .MSCX files, but I don't actually know my way around them. I did notice that the "Channel" sections of @tonnyx's file were all identical, while in my test file they were not.
In reply to When I open @tonnyx's MSCZ… by TheHutch
Thanks for looking into this!
I didn't even notice the paired/grouped staves. I deleted those lines from the score, but that didn't change anything; I don't know where to "officially" ungroup them.
Where is the "Channel" section?
The below (cadiz1) answered my problem. Apparently my Clarinet part had become corrupt. So I did the following (though it may be excessive, it solved my problem):
1. made a copy of MUSEscore file, and operated on it
2. on the copy: deleted the entire Clarinet track and even the use of Clarinet as an instrument.
3. Saved this file.
4. Quit MUSEscore and my computer
5. restarted computer & MUSEscore
6. Opened my saved copy (devoid of clarinet part from previous #2 above) in MUSEscore.
8. re-input the clarinet part
This file exports a clean WAV of Clarinet (only)
I don't know if I could have copied the Clarinet part from the original corrupted MUSEscore file and pasted it without bringing in the existent corruption. I was frustrated and thought to move as cleanly as possible.
I am so thankful for the great work on creating and updating MUSEscore.
And thanks "cadiz1" for your score to "Be Thou My Vision!" I enjoyed it muchly!
cadiz1 • Feb 10, 2025 - 02:56 new
In reply to Yes! I'm having the same… by tonnyx
For whatever reason, removing parts (and creating them again) seems to do the trick: 1BeThouMyVision-Frizzell.mscz. Perhaps it would have been enough to reset them, but I was in a hurry, and it's faster this way. :)