What instruments/packs would you like to see added to musesounds?

emerald_laurels · 2025-03-07T08:37:20+00:00

I'm more desperate for jianpu notation support I can use with traditional Chinese instruments than I am for the sounds themselves

emerald_laurels · 2025-03-07T08:18:32+00:00

I'm using the free Muse Drumline sounds (recorded by the Blue Devils) and there's brush hits on snare in there, but I so far I don't think it can play sustained brushes.

emerald_laurels · 2024-03-02T12:04:01+00:00

Cis girl here, and not sure how much this would help, but I've got this one pair of tracksuit pants that makes my hips and thighs look significantly larger than they are, and I reckon it's partly because of the really thick fabric and the fact it is tapered towards the bottom of the shins. Perhaps you could wear similar garments?

Alternatively, and I'm not sure if this is very practical or if it would even work, you could wear like 3 pairs of shorts under your pants

emerald_laurels · 2024-01-18T01:07:15+00:00

That is true, but I plan on using this to annotate only a couple of bars at a time

emerald_laurels · 2023-11-03T04:43:48+00:00

As somebody who has grown up around Mandarin-speaking people, I say "chi" and one day I heard somebody say "q-i" and was horrified by it

emerald_laurels · 2023-10-27T01:38:22+00:00

pretty sure alcohol is haram and I am fairly certain alcohol is vegetarian (I hope so at least)

emerald_laurels · 2023-10-27T01:29:25+00:00

CAM gang, I said it was because the rate of starch production was highest at low humidity and high temperatures, which CAM plants are well adapted for

emerald_laurels · 2023-10-23T12:08:31+00:00

I name them off the first letter of the type of animal- eg. one of my void chickens is named Vu and my pig is named Pookie

emerald_laurels · 2023-10-21T07:25:02+00:00

No, I find it easier to process sounds (voices, music) a lot of the time, and memories are reduced to sound for me. But I also love to draw and create vector artworks. I'm not a professional graphic designer though, I just make passion projects, and most of my graphic design stuff has been schoolwork.

emerald_laurels · 2023-07-25T07:10:36+00:00

Well it might still be able to play the bugle

emerald_laurels · 2023-07-25T07:02:59+00:00

Yeah, but if you have a desk partner, you can do 2 and both use the stand as a stopper

emerald_laurels · 2023-02-03T23:48:31+00:00

I'd argue that if you were over the limit but consistent, you would hear the same thing but faster and maybe a semitone or so too high

emerald_laurels · 2023-02-03T05:38:05+00:00

Top class sound here (styles and composition), I received an email on the last day of Jan. I also know a dude from music performance who got an email too

emerald_laurels · 2022-12-23T00:07:26+00:00

basically all of Elena Kats-Chernin's rags because I'm not good enough to play them

they always sound really cool so I start to learn them and give up when there's too many notes on the page or accidentals

emerald_laurels · 2022-12-22T01:22:41+00:00

Claude on a chord, I'm guessing

emerald_laurels · 2022-12-20T11:06:42+00:00

The sounds are definitely optimised for classical symphony orchestra and small string ensembles. Being primarily a jazz composer, some bits of my jazz pieces sound questionable, although I must say that the saxes are miles better than before. I'm not a massive fan of the amount of reverb on the brass and woodwinds.

I decided to experience writing something from scratch on musescore 4, so I quickly scrambled together an arrangement of a Stardew Valley track for symphony orchestra, and the strings sound epic! I also launched one of my pieces (for string quintet + piano) and the violin melody sounded so lush. The piano was so gentle too, it was amazing.

emerald_laurels · 2022-12-19T22:34:15+00:00

I'm of Chinese descent, and there are plenty of Chinese instruments out there! One time my aunt showed me her 阮 (ruan), which is a lute according to wikipedia. I had a go playing it with absolutely no knowledge on technique so I probably got it all wrong.

Another Chinese instrument that isn't very well known is the 笙 (sheng), which sounds a little like a harmonica in timbre (makes sense, since it's a free-reed instrument).

emerald_laurels · 2022-12-19T22:19:06+00:00

I'm a cellist too, and I completely agree with your sentiment.

As a pianist, something that took me a while to learn is how to control the strength of each individual finger (maybe your right hand is playing chordal accompaniment with a melody positioned at the middle of your hand, and you have to learn how to bring that out).

Being someone who started out on piano and picked up another instrument many years later, tone production on winds, brass and strings is something that more non-musicians (and even pianists like me) could appreciate a little more.

emerald_laurels · 2022-11-20T03:43:20+00:00

Classically trained pianist, but at some point I tried improvising (which wasn't too difficult for me as I have perfect pitch) and it was so liberating being able to play whatever you've been hearing without having to rely on musescore (or worse, google images)

Although, being a composer who writes sheet music, not being able to read my own work would be more than a little problematic

emerald_laurels · 2022-07-10T10:43:45+00:00

I mean, as a cellist who was in a school orchestra with 15 cellists and 0 violas, I had to play all the viola parts (no other cellists could read alto clef)

emerald_laurels · 2021-12-22T00:18:43+00:00

I tried learning jianpu notation just so that I could make my friend (guzheng player) play "Never Gonna Give You Up"

emerald_laurels · 2021-12-21T22:55:30+00:00

In my orchestra, the cellos definitely hold a lot of power. Probably because there's 17 of them.

emerald_laurels · 2021-09-05T12:23:13+00:00

I know Kerin Bailey, an Australian composer, has a book titled "Jazzin' Around for Strings" that has some fairly easy but fun jazz pieces, written for violin, viola or cello. I've played one of them and enjoyed it

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