x noteheads don't instruct Kontakt Picked Nylon or PianoTeq’s guitars to play muted notes

[scorster]

Issue type

VST bug

Bug description

x noteheads don't instruct Kontakt Picked Nylon (or PianoTeq’s guitars) to play muted notes. Apparently Kontakt and PianoTeq need keyswitches to trigger muted strings. I hope MuseScore 4's x noteheads will suffice in the future.

Despite some issues already reported here on Github, MuseScore 4.2.1 x noteheads generally play muted notes with the Muse Guitars libraries ... though not with MS Basic guitars, and not with Native Instruments' or PianoTeq's guitars.

Steps to reproduce

• Open the Guitar + Tablature template in MuseScore 4.2 or later
• Add some notes and set their notehead type to x
• Set Mixer>Sound>VST>native Instruments and choose Picked Nylon
• Play the score

Unexpected result: No muted notes

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

MuseScore Version

4.2.1

Regression

I don't know

Operating system

macOS 13.5.2

Additional context

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[Valdessir]

Likely sound flags will be one of the solutions to these, but all I can do is speculate on what they can do as they're still working on its implementation. This isn't more of a bug, but a limitation of the software, as Musescore can only play note-on and note-off with VSTs for now and isn't able to switch articulations internally yet.