r/Musescore

Okay, so I love the MuseSounds, alright? For somebody who writes for competitions and seldom has access to live instruments, its amazing. HOWEVER, the viola (solo) soundfont in particular annoys me to no end. It's INSANELY slidey, which I'd get if it had, maybe, a tenuto or something, but these are plain old normal notes here. Cute for lyrical works, hell on earth for anything else. The only workaround I've found is slapping accents on the slidey notes and hiding them.

viola (solo) being stupid

Another problem with articulations, staccatos are consistently about a whole dynamic louder than written, especially on high notes. No big deal, I can just manually lower the dynamic, but I feel like an instrument that's usually TOO quiet should have a little more consistency.

Anyways, I just wanted to vent my frustrations a little bit. I'm not too mad at Muse, because at the end of the day, they're free and AMAZING most of the time (I'm using Muse Music Box as the Celesta's soundfont and it's amazing). Just every now and then. It's also not just a viola problem; all Muse Strings are a bit slidey, but it's worst (and most unexpected) on viola.

Question in title, I am thinking of buying SSO next time it goes on sale. Will all the articulations and stuff work?

https://reddit.com/link/1unbrrg/video/ecx0krf0d8bh1/player

 Please do not judge my composition, I am not looking for composition feedback. Only showing that Musescore can be used for scoring. I scored a short 1 minute film clip (a supernatural horror scene from the movie Rings) only to show to myself how Musescore can be used for scoring film. Not at the level of a DAW, but I feel film scoring on Musescore (4.7.3 in this example) can be great for a first pass before exporting to xml and importing into a DAW for advanced mixing and mastering if needed. This is a lot cheaper than using Dorico, in fact Musescore + VLC + VLCsync plugin is free! I did use a couple of VST3 instruments (e.g. Kontakt::FORZO by Heavyocity for Horns as I wanted some special brass effects) as Musescore allows using VST3 instruments (BBCSO, Hans Zimmer Strings, Kontakt and its instruments, etc).

This is a quick example, not what I would do for an actual gig. I am in no way associated with this film, my composition is purely for educational purposes (fair use act) and to show how using the free open source video player VLC, in combination with the free VLCsync plugin for Musescore, allows scoring somewhat like a DAW. (I tried the paid MuseHub app Vienna Video Pro but I did not find it useful, your mileage may vary, and after trying VLC I much prefer VLC; markers and hit points can be added to a score using staff text if needed)

I really like composing in a notation editor like Musescore, to see the structure and clarity of chords, intervals, and more. Note: I intentionally composed more music using more tropes for horror than I normally would, as my goal was to see if I could score a cue using typical supernatural horror music tropes in Musescore. Please do not judge my composition,

I just updated musescore to 4.7.3, and it is noticeably much worse than before. It crashes all the time randomly, for some reason system text shows up on two instruments now instead of above the staff like normal, and the soundfonts sound worse. Is there a way to revert my musescore to the previous update because I can't stand this anymore.

Today when I opened musescore it buged really bad. It took much time to open, and it automatically closes itself all the time.Plus it's very very slow Does anyone have the same issue? I don't know if the reason is musescore errors or my terrible PC.

I woke up this morning to 2 paypal emails (50 minutes apart from one another) saying that 44.99 usd was charged by musescore. I never knowingly signed up to their subscription and the last time I bought sheet music on that site was last month for one individual score. I filed a refund through musescore email support stating that I wanted the original AND duplicate charge refunded as I was unaware of me signing up for the service. They responded very slowly and gave me a refund for the DUPLICATE charge after 2 hours of trying. They ignored my further emails and request to get the original charge refunded so I had to go through paypal AND my bank. Don't give this company your money, they are actively trying to scam people. I remember when this website used to be good 5-10 years ago, what happened to it?

It’s very unfortunate when you have this potential, you know, and you decide to go the other path and cheat your customers.

I could’ve sworn I have the subscription canceled but they still charged me. Despite their 14-day refund policy, which they made, they still refused me to get my refund and only offered me 25%. And when did annual even became 3 months. I wasn’t informed 3 months is the new annual. They tried to flip it on me by saying I subscribed to an “instant” annual subscription. And the fact the I had a different amount offered than what I was charged with was crazy. It was 74.6% more.

I hope the everyone will know about this, including potential customers (and victims).

I want to have a part score that has 4 different instrument parts on the same staff, while also having them separate in the main score. I tried using the implode tool, but that puts all the parts on the same staff in main score as well.

When I make instruments with different musical time signatures in a score, 3/4 relates to 2/4 like a triplet, but I need to make a multi-meter score like, for example, Ives' 4th symphony.

I appreciate them refunding my money back in the bank really quickly. It sure helps when I don't have to feel so stressed out. Thank you Musescore and if I had enough funding, I would use it. I'll keep you in mind.