Playback Issues
Hello. Do you think there is a way to get crescendo playback to work? And also dynamics and hairpin combinations, like a forte-piano crescendo to a fortissimo, or something like that? And also fix the soundfont for the alto sax, euphonium? Also, some marching percussion would be nice too.
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If you've tried a Nightly http://musescore.org/en/download#Nightly-versions
You may edit Crescendo / Diminuendo
In reply to If you've tried a Nightly by Shoichi
My computer won't let me download the nightly builds. It keeps telling me I'm missing a DDL file.
In reply to My computer won't let me by dcgereski
DLL? Which one?
In reply to DLL? Which one? by Jojo-Schmitz
A Qt5core.dll. I meant DLL, not DDL.
In reply to A Qt5core.dll. I meant DLL, by dcgereski
Which operating system? Not Windows, right?
And why on earth should a missing DLL keep you from downloading a nightly build?
I could understand it preventing you from running it, after the dowload though, even if I don't understand why it would be missing.
In reply to Which operating system? Not by Jojo-Schmitz
No, I am definitely using Windows 8. And I have no idea. All I know is that every time I try to open it, my computer says it can't open because Qt5core.DLL is missing.
In reply to No, I am definitely using by dcgereski
So I take it you succeeded in *downloading* it, then, and are now trying to "open" it. What specifically are you trying to "open"? Have you already extracted the contents of the archive to a folder? You can navigated to that folder? Are you now double-clicking the "nightly" file within that flder, or are you doing something else?
In reply to So I take it you succeeded in by Marc Sabatella
Yes Marc, exactly. All I'm doing is openin the "bin" folder and double-clicking on "nightly.exe". Opening nightly.exe is the problem.
In reply to No, I am definitely using by dcgereski
Sounds like you downloaded an early version?
The first release of MuseScore 2.0 beta 2 suffered from this error message because the change to Qt 5.4 hadn't quite made it to the server.
I suggest you try re-downloading and installing it.
Failing that try a nightly build - there will be more bugs fixed :)
In reply to Sounds like you downloaded an by ChurchOrganist
He is using a nightly, nightly.exe being the hint :-)
But you are right, some night lies had the issue you describe.
So which nightly is it that doesn't work, the latest?
Is that DLL found in the bin folder? Is qt.conf there too?
What do you mean about fix the soundfont for alto sax and euphonium?
I'm not aware of any issues with these instruments.
Please be more specific - http://musescore.org/node/77
In reply to What do you mean about fix by ChurchOrganist
Well, "issues" isn't the best word to use in this situation. What I mean to say is that the alto sax and euphonium sound fonts sound nothing like an actual alto sax or a euphonium. Of course, this is just my opinion, so feel free to contradict me.
In reply to Well, "issues" isn't the best by dcgereski
You don't say which version of MuseScore you are using. 1.3 does not provide crescendo playback except via a plugin you have to run manually - although when you do that, it does work. The 2.0 beta 2 that is currently available does crescendo playback autoamtically, but MuseScore is limited to only being able to control volume a note at a time - there is no way to change volume within a single note. So no way to get a whole note to crescendo, for example.
Also, the default soundfont changed from a very rudimentary one in 1.3 to much more realistic one in 2.0 beta/nightly builds. But the problem with wind instruments is still going to be that you can't get the same sample to sound right for both tongued and slurred passages. So an instrument might sound natural for one type of passage but not the other. The soundfont in 2.0 - FluidR3 - does the best job of any I've seen at finding a compromise, so the attacks aren't hard to sound slurred or too soft to sound tongued - but it's still a far cry form the real thing.
As for euphonium, the prolblem here is that General MIDI does not define this as a separate instrument (not even baritone horn), so we have to substitute something that is available - either trombone or tuba. If you don't mind doing a bit of extra work, I'm sure there are non-GM-compatible soundfonts out there you could download and install (see Soundfont in the Handbook for instructions) that would provoide true euphonium samples. but you'll still be limited by the basic inability of MuseScore to different tongued and slurred passages, and the basic inability to change volume or tone within a single note.
In reply to You don't say which version by Marc Sabatella
My bad. I forgot to mention that I'm using a version of MuseScore 2.0. And I wasn't aware that on MuseScore 2.0, you could load the same soundfont as MuseScore 1.0., so that fixed the alto sax and euphonium and clarinet problem. I guess I prefer the Tim soundfont over the Fluid soundfont.