Moving installation, soundfonts not applied
I've recently moved my MuseScore installation between laptops, from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.
On Windows, I used MuseScore 4.3 portable. I made sure to back up my "MuseScore4Development" folder from Documents. I don't have access to this computer anymore, but I have the folders for "Scores", "SoundFonts", "Plugins", "VST3", etc.
On Linux, I have a close-to-latest AppImage. I ran MuseScore once to create the "MuseScore4" folder in Documents, then I moved my backup there.
Now when I open one of those projects, the sounds for each instrument have been reset to the defaults. I expected them to remember the relative paths to the SoundFonts and VST3 folders, but I guess that's not supported.
I'm wondering if I can edit a .mscz file directly to recognise the new folder layout or something. I don't want to change every instrument manually because I have a lot of projects, and some of them have specific VST settings applied, etc.
Would that be possible? Surely the paths are stored somewhere.
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VST is not (officially) supported on Linux. (and Windows VST's do not work on Linux, unless you want to use Wine).
The standard location for VST3 :
-on Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
-on Linux: $HOME/.vst3/ or /usr/lib/vst3/ or /usr/local/lib/vst3/
Soundfonts (sf2/3) are under ~/Documents/MuseScore4/SoundFonts. Anything in there should be available in MuseScore.
You can of course change folders in Preferences/Folders/
In reply to VST is not (officially) … by graffesmusic
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After moving my soundfont files around, I got them to load automatically. I was sure they weren't loading before, not sure what changed though.
I've found soundfonts to replace my VSTs, so I think I'm all good.
Thanks for your help!
In reply to Thanks for your response… by silvncr
You can have a look at https://musescore.org/en/node/351813 (unsupported build)
It should not be a big problem to find a suitable piano.
magical8bit is made with JUCE. The author did not make a linux version, but you can compile it yourself. Needs Juce version 6x. Juce 7 does not work. (see my comment in this thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/358417)
(Official vst3 support for Linux should arrive with v4.6)
In reply to You can have a look at https… by graffesmusic
Thanks for the info, I'll try the builds from diedeno/MuseScore, otherwise I'll probably just stick to soundfonts. What's your source for saying MSv4.6 will support VST3?
In reply to Thanks for the info, I'll… by silvncr
I know it from a discussion on Discord. The missing Linux runloop is already in the code, but too late to include it in the official 4.5 release. (and maybe not completely stable yet)
In reply to I know it from a discussion… by graffesmusic
Thanks again for your time, this has been really helpful.