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[MU4 Issue] [Muse Sounds?] Various Bb/A clarinet playback issues

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Description

Describe the bug
Bb/A clarinet seems to have lots of issues on specific notes (I'll talk about written pitches to make it simple):

  • Attack feels slow overall - p and lower
  • Attacked F5 has a key click that shouldn't be there - p and lower FIXED
  • G5 and A#5 have a low pitched sound (like a student learning how to play those notes or not pressing the 12th key correctly) - mf and lower
  • A#5 sounds really different from surrounding notes - f and up Seems to happen at every dynamic now
  • D#6 sounds like player is trying to do a scoop - mf and up Seems to be fixed
  • E6 is the highest note D7 now, fixed
  • Something around D#5 and F5 is weird, like there's samples overlapping sometimes - p and lower
  • Attacked (now it happens with slurs too) F#3 and F#4 sound terrible, (almost like a squeak?) - mp and up (now it's specially bad with F#3)
  • E3 kinda sounds like 2 samples playing at the same time but not later in the score - p and lower
  • There's no low E for A clarinet (known too but 😢)
  • Notes from (including) D5 to A5 feel extremely thin and quiet - mp
  • Excessive key noises everywhere but specially with slurred notes over the break (Bb4-B4 and C6-C#6)
  • Notes over the break sound pretty bad when slurred, with the start of the second note often being delayed
  • Many slurred intervals are out of tune (I might open a separate issue for those)
  • F3 and E3 have excessive air sound when being slurred down - mp and up

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open attached score (remove .zip)

ugh2.mscz (2).zip

  1. Click Play
  2. See errors

Expected behavior
Everything should play just fine

Platform information

  • OS: Windows 11

Additional context
Most of these sound just like sample or player issues, like the high or the almost squeaking notes.

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Open the attached ugh2.mscz score in MuseScore and reproduce the Bb/A clarinet playback problems by clicking Play. Compare the listed attacks, slurs, dynamics, pitches, key noises, and missing low E against the expected playback; done means the confirmed issues are corrected without introducing new playback problems.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
audio-video-rtc, desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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