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Noise before attack, and release abruptly cut off when clicking on notes
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Description
Issue type
General playback bug
Description with steps to reproduce
When clicking on notes in MSS, the release tail is abruptly cut off, then when clicking another note there is a short noise before the attack, which sounds like it may be part of the tail cut off from the previous note.
This occurs both for MuseSounds and MS Basic.
Easy to see with a spectrogram (4.7.4 above, nightly main below):
Supporting files, videos and screenshots
4.7.4:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/523db7b7-5d4a-4036-affd-3f2fa1e751f8
Nightly main:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ce619173-1d8a-49ce-bfdf-26d03eb9babe
In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
Nightly main
Regression
Yes, this works in the latest released version and is broken in the nightly builds
Operating system
macOS 26.5.2
Additional context
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