Open wizofaus opened 3 months ago
I have experienced the same thing you're talking about, pizzicato being virtually inaudible below mp or even mf or f for all string instruments, not just contrabasses, but Violin 1 Solo, Violas, Cello Solo, every string instrument sound with pizzicato. The exact dynamic that I need to set it to to hear the pizzicato varies depending on factors like overall dynamic(if it's quieter, I don't need it as loud), instrumentation(if it's just strings and woodwinds, mp is fine, if there's a piano instrument present however, I need mf or f to hear pizzicato over the piano), and just sometimes the samples it gives me are quieter than other times and so I need to set it to a higher dynamic like mf because of that.
So I always end up having to put the composer's notated dynamic as dynamic style staff text and an invisible playback dynamic of mp, mf, or f depending on those relevant factors, but it affects every bowed string instrument for me in the same way that you're talking it happening with contrabasses, that if it's at p or quieter it's virtually inaudible.
You don't need to use staff text, you can just turn off the "play" flag for dynamics that are just for show. Though obviously it should be unnecessary anyway (really I would think for any dynamic marking or ideally any note there should be a way of specifying just how much dynamic-adjustment you want, just like there is for MS Basic). But it's really only CB pizz. at p or lower that I observed as being basically unusable, and it's a very common thing to want in a score!
Finding this even more of an issue now because accents don't work. Basically the lowest usable dynamic for Contrabasses pizz. is mp, and to get an accent you have to use mf (which is way way louder). It's fine in the other string sections, at least when using decent headphones.
Issue type
Muse Sounds bug
Bug description
Any pizzicato notes in the contrabass section are virtually impossible to hear at dynamics below mp. (In fact in general pizzicato sounds across Muse Sounds are rather quiet, but this is extreme).
Steps to reproduce
(Even if you mute the violins, it's very hard to hear, and that's p ! At ppp I'd challenge anyone to determine what notes are actually being played...)
Screenshots/Screen recordings
No response
MuseScore Version
4.3
Regression
I don't know
Operating system
Windows 11
Additional context
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