Hi Marc, This proposal is meant to benefit users of both the internal and external synthesizers. Let me describe the two particular purposes I would want it for, since that may clarify where I'm coming from.
I often use the SSO sounds, and they work fine in Zerberus. But it's a bit of a pain to use them. Every time I start a new score, I first have to open up the Synthesizer window and load all the sounds I'm going to be using, one at a time. Then I have to open up the Mixer window and assign sounds to instruments, one at a time. For an orchestral score, this takes a few minutes. It's not that big a deal, but it's a bit tedious. I'd really like the process to be automated: just specify one configuration file, and all the sounds get set up correctly by default. Also, SSO has a slightly different list of articulations than the built in one. There are no tremolo sounds, but it does have staccato sounds for many instruments. So for the strings, I load the staccato sounds into the tremolo channel, which works fine but is a bit of a hack. For the brass it's more of a problem: MuseScore just doesn't accept that brass instruments can have multiple articulations. My second use case is an external synthesizer. I own GPO5, and I'd really like to be able to use it with MuseScore. I can use JACK to get them talking to each other, but the wrong commands are being sent. For most non-percussion sounds, GPO uses a controller instead of velocity to control dynamics. There's simply no way to get MuseScore to send the right commands to make it play correctly. As a result, I'm in the 99% of users who only uses the internal synthesizers, but not by choice! I *would* use an external synthesizer if that option were better supported. I suspect the same is true for a lot of other people. Peter -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Playback-abstraction-layer-tp7579762p7579789.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/ gampad/clk?id=1444514301&iu=/ca-pub-7940484522588532 _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
