A great app for playing and basic editing of general midi files is Sweet Midi Player which includes a lyric viewer for midis with lyrics/chords. You can load one of the General Midi SoundFonts above to greatly improve the sound quality. A small dance-themed General MIDI-compatible soundfont. Does not exactly follow the GM standard in terms of specific instruments; uses a lot of synth sounds. SONiVOX Retro Synth Standards: GM Size: 3.99 MB A small retro-themed General MIDI-compatible soundfont. Aug 13, 2020.
Audio playback is provided by MuseScore's onboard synthesizer, which houses a large selection of virtual (or software) instruments—including percussion and sound effects.
MuseScore supports virtual instruments in two formats:
- SoundFont (.sf2/.sf3): A single file containing one or more virtual instruments.
- SFZ (.sfz): A set of audio and definition files containing one or more virtual instruments.
SoundFonts
MuseScore comes with its own GM (General MIDI) SoundFont, MuseScore_General.sf3, containing over 128 instruments, sound effects and various drum/percussion kits.
GM (General MIDI) is a universal format, so once your score is set up for correct playback using MuseScore's native Soundfont, you should be able to export it in a format of your choice and have it play back on any other user's computer.
Oshin theme song free mp3 download. Many different Soundfonts are available on the Internet: some free, some commercial. For a list of free soundfonts, see below.
Install a SoundFont
After finding and decompressing a SoundFont (see →below), double-click to open it. In most cases, the SoundFont file type will already be associated with MuseScore, and MuseScore will start and a dialog will appear asking if you want to install the SoundFont. Occasionally an application other than MuseScore will be associated with the SoundFont file type; if this is the case, you will need to right-click or control-click on the file, so as to display a menu from which you can choose to open the file in MuseScore. In either case, when the dialog appears asking if you want to install the SoundFont, click 'Yes' to place a copy of the SoundFont file in MuseScore's SoundFonts directory. This directory can be viewed or changed in MuseScore's Preferences, but the default location is:
General Midi Soundfont Lmms
Palace casino florida. Windows:
%HOMEPATH%DocumentsMuseScore3SoundfontsVikings sezon 6 online subtitrat. macOS and Linux:
~/Documents/MuseScore3/Soundfonts
In contrast to user-added SoundFonts, the initial default SoundFont installed with MuseScore is located in a system directory, meant only for that purpose, which should not be modified. This directory and its default SoundFont file is:
- Windows x86 (32-bit) / MuseScore x86:
%ProgramFiles%MuseScore 3soundMuseScore_General.sf3 - Windows x64 (64-bit) / MuseScore x86:
%ProgramFiles(x86)%MuseScore 3soundMuseScore_General.sf3 Windows x64 (64-bit) / MuseScore x86_64:
%ProgramFiles%MuseScore 3soundMuseScore_General.sf3macOS:
/Applications/MuseScore 3.app/Contents/Resources/sound/MuseScore_General.sf3Linux (Ubuntu):
/usr/share/mscore-xxx/sounds/MuseScore_General.sf3(withxxxbeing the MuseScore version)
Uninstall
To uninstall a SoundFont, simply open the folder where its file is installed and delete it.
SFZ
Best free macos apps. An SFZ is a collection of files and directories, an SFZ file and a bunch of actual sound files in WAV or FLAC format, with the SFZ file being a text file that basically describes what sound file is located where and to be used for what instrument and pitch range.
Install an SFZ
After downloading an SFZ (see →below), you need to manually extract all the files that belong to the SFZ (the SFZ file itself and all the subdirectories) into the directory listed above. Leave the subdirectories and their contents as they are.
Uninstall
To uninstall an SFZ, simply open the folder where its files are installed (see above) and delete them all.
Synthesizer
Once a SoundFont has been installed on your system, it also needs to be loaded into the Synthesizer. See To load a soundfont.
Mixer
General User Soundfont
The Mixer allows you to easily change the sounds for each staff (even while the score is playing). For further details, see Mixer.
List of downloadable soundfonts
GM SoundFonts
The following sound libraries conform to the General MIDI (GM2) standard. This specification gives you a sound set of 128 virtual instruments, plus percussion kits.
- GeneralUser GS (29.8 MB uncompressed)
Courtesy of S. Christian Collins - Magic Sound Font, version 2.0 (67.8 MB uncompressed)
- Arachno SoundFont, version 1.0 (148MB uncompressed)
Courtesy of Maxime Abbey - MuseScore 1 came with TimGM6mb (5.7 MB uncompressed)
License: GNU GPL, version 2
Courtesy of Tim Brechbill - MuseScore 2 (up to version 2.1) came with
FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3(13.8 MB). - MuseScore 2 (as of version 2.2) and 3 come with
MuseScore_General.sf3(35.9 MB) (SF2 version(208 MB)) and are being updated from time to time (see the Changelog).
License: released under the MIT license
Courtesy of S. Christian Collins
MuseScore 3 on top offers an HQ version of that soundfont as an extension - Timbres of Heaven, version 3.2 (369 MB uncompressed)
Courtesy of Don Allen - Soundfonts4U (12MB up to 1GB, depending on which package you choose)
Collection of beautifully sounding acoustic guitars as well as pianos, basses, strings, harps and many more.
Orchestral soundfonts
- Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (503 MB uncompressed)
Downloads: SoundFont | SFZ format
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 - Aegean Symphonic Orchestra
Courtesy of Ziya Mete Demircan (352 MB uncompressed)
Piano soundfonts
SF2 Pianos- Acoustic grand piano, release 2016-08-04
Description: Yamaha Disklavier Pro Grand Piano, sf2 format, 36MiB compressed, 113MiB uncompressed, 121 samples, 5 velocity layers
More information: http://freepats.zenvoid.org/ including other soundfonts.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Courtesy of Roberto Gordo Saez - Salamander C5 Light
Courtesy of Ziya Mete Demircan (24.5 MB uncompressed)
- Salamander Grand Piano
Downloads: version 2 | version 3
Description: Yamaha C5, 48kHz, 24bit, 16 velocity layers, between 80 MB and 1.9 GB uncompressed
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Courtesy of Alexander Holm - Detuned Piano (244 MB uncompressed)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 - Plucked Piano Strings
Description: 44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo, 168 MB uncompressed
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 - The City Piano
Description: Baldwin Baby Grand, 4 velocity layers, 696 MB uncompressed
License: Public domain
Courtesy of Big Cat Instruments - Kawai Upright Piano, release 2017-01-28
Description: 68 samples, 44KHz, 24bit, stereo, 2 velocity layers, 58MiB uncompressed
License: GNU General Public License version 3 or later, with a special exception
Courtesy of Gonzalo and Roberto
Unzipping downloaded soundfonts
Since soundfonts are large, they are often zipped (compressed) into a variety of formats, including .zip, .sfArk, and .tar.gz. You need to unzip (decompress) these files before they can be used.
ZIP is standard compression format supported by most operating systems.
sfArk is a compression format designed especially for compressing SoundFont files. To decompress it, use Polyphone (cross-platform software); or this online service: https://cloudconvert.com/sfark-to-sf2
.tar.gz is a popular compression format for Linux. Windows users can use 7-Zip; Mac users can use The Unarchiver, or macOS' built-in Archive Utility. Note that if using 7-Zip, you will need to apply decompression twice—once for GZip and once for TAR.
Troubleshooting
If the toolbar play panel is greyed out, or not visible, follow the instructions below to get your sound working again:
- Right-click on the menu bar and make sure there is a check mark next to the Playback Controls menu item. If this step does not solve your problem, go to Step 2.
- If the play panel disappears after changing the SoundFont, go to Edit → Preferences. → I/O tab and click OK without making any changes. After restarting MuseScore, the play panel should reappear.
If you are setting up a SoundFont for the first time, please use one of the recommended SoundFonts listed above.
If playback stutters, then your computer may not be able to handle the SoundFont being used. The following advice may help:
- Reduce the amount of RAM (memory) used by MuseScore by using a smaller SoundFont. See the list above for suggestions.
- Increase the amount of RAM available for MuseScore by quitting all applications except MuseScore. If you still have problems and a large SoundFont is important to you, consider more RAM for your computer.
See also
External links
General Midi Soundfonts
- How to change the SoundFont or add another (MuseScore HowTo)
- The SFZ Format (for details about the sfz specification)
