Viola is out of tune
Hi,
I've been noticing lately that the voila can be horribly out of tune sometimes. My favorite thing to write for is string quartet so this can ruin some passages. I attached a file to show how it can be out of tune.
The viola being out of tune is just too realistic. J/k, I just love viola jokes.
OS: Ubuntu 9.10
MuseScore Version: r.2438
| Attachment | Size |
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| Out of tune Viola.mscz | 1.8 KB |
Comments
What SoundFont are you using?
In reply to What SoundFont are you using? by David Bolton
Fluid
In reply to Fluid by airjp73
It sounds fine to me (tested using r. 2530 nightly, Windows XP, FluidR3_GM.sf2)
Here's a audio file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/892408/viola%20tuning.ogg
In reply to It sounds fine to me (tested by David Bolton
It must be something in my settings then. When I play it, the D is almost a D# and then it fixes itself.
In reply to It sounds fine to me (tested by David Bolton
This is what it sounds like when I play it. It's a bit more subtle on the recording than when I play it through MuseScore but it's still there.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3739836/Viola.ogg
In reply to Here's an audio file by airjp73
It is very subtle but I do hear that it starts a little high and then settles into the correct pitch in your sample. I also notice that your sample has a much more legato viola. The viola in my sample has a stronger articulation at the beginning of each the note.
I am confused about why our samples sound different.
In reply to It is very subtle but I do by David Bolton
Yea, that is strange. I just double checked my sythesizer and I am using FluidR3_GM.sf2 like I thought.
I'll give you a run down of some of my preferences... maybe those are messed up. They're all default settings except one.
In the general tab, there's an instrument list setting but I think that's for language purposes not sound. Anyway, this is what that's set to: /usr/share/mscore/templates/instruments.xml.
In the I/O tab, I have:
Use internal sythesizer
ALSA Audio
Device: hw:0 (had to change from "default" to "hw:0")
Sample rate: 48000
Fragments: 3
Period Size: 1024
In reply to Here's an audio file by airjp73
I don't think it's on DropBox anymore. Can you please re-upload it?