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Drawbar and Detuned Organs 1 and 2 are still one octave too low in MS Basic.sf3
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Description
Issue type
General playback bug
Description with steps to reproduce
All electronic Hammond-style organs should be one octave below concert pitch, as they are in other GM soundfonts.
Drawbar and Detuned Organs 1 and 2 as supplied in MuseScore are a further octave lower than that.
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What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?
4.3
Regression
No.
Operating system
Windows 10, but probably all
Additional context
I posted about this issue back in this post from 2021:
https://musescore.org/en/node/326427
and commented in this 2017 thread as well:
https://musescore.org/en/node/163756#comment-1104115
Harmonic analysis was performed.
Proof was given, complete with screen grabs and how to reproduce.
This is still the case with the newest version of the soundfont included with 4.3.
It should be an easy fix.
Replace -24 with -12 in the transposition for the Drawbar Organ instrument in the soundfont (note: instrument, not preset or sample). Then re-save. I could do this easily if granted access to MS Basic.sf2 so there would be no quality loss.
Though one could, one shouldn't simply change instruments.xml, because then MuseScore would be wrong for correctly pitched soundfonts.
I should note:
Workarounds are available.
You can either edit the soundfont yourself (and lose sf3 sizing) or transpose within MuseScore, but the optimist in me wants it to be correct out-of-the-box.
Thanks
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