Adding Instrument From The Palette
I have noticed when an instrument is added from the palette it also adds addition controls to the mixer. Is this by design? If so, why?
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by design:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/mid-staff-instrument-change?
Some musicians play more than one instrument.
If there wasn't a mixer control, you wouldn't able to control the relative volumes of the instruments. What would the advantage of that be?
In reply to If there wasn't a mixer by Marc Sabatella
So, what you're saying is there would be more than one instrument playing the same notes in the staff and the mixer is to control the play-back of each instrument. This seams to me to be strictly a play-back feature. Am I right?
In reply to So, what you're saying is by rwmol
Not more than one instrument playing the same notes in the staff at the same time—Instrument text indicates a change from one to another—but yes, it's strictly a playback feature, as the Mixer itself is in the first place.
In reply to So, what you're saying is by rwmol
To be clear: if you have an oboe staff, and you add an Instrument text to measure 27 and use it to change the playback sound to flute, then you will have two mixer entries: one for oboe, one for flute. The oboe entry will control the volume during playback (indeed, the only purpose for the mxier in the first is for controlling playback) from the beginning until measure 27, and the flute entry will control the volume during playback from measure 27 until the end. Very useful if the soundfont you are using happens to have the flute louder than the oboe or otherwise needs adjustment - again, the whole purpsoe of the mixer in the first place.