Musescore 4 - Finlandia MuseSounds test

I wrote out Finlandia in Musescore some several years ago. Here is that file, processed through MS4 with MuseSounds. I lowered the timpani volume and raised the strings (about 6db in each case,). I made no other adjustments to my very old Finlandia file.

I find that MS4 doesn''t work well with Fortzandi and gradual dynamic change (in this example, they are very abrupt).

I have not updated any notational data from my very old Musescore data, which I am sure is responsible for some of the issues found in this example. I don't use Musescore as my primary software anymore.

The brass are rough throughout. I've seen a lot of praise for the very aggressive brass sound at stronger dynamics, and while that works very well at the beginning of this piece, the horns and trumpets are unnecessarily bright throughout the rest. The brass tutti sound is very artificial sounding still. While not present in this score, there is no euphonium sound and the tuba does not have the range of pitches to substitute (or to cover the advanced range of our repertoire, but that's of little concern).

The strings are generally excellent. The chorale in octaves between the first violin and celli are especially wonderful. The strings easily overbalance the rest of the orchestra at stronger dynamics, which should be possible to fix (e.g. the brass are difficult to hear in the louder middle section). The tremolo sound artifacts noticably when play long enough.

The woodwind sounds are very pleasant throughout this recording. I would appreciate a more brilliant upper register in the flutes, and more color in the low register of the bassoons. The detail of the vibrato on longer sustains is beautiful (e.g. the first flute in the chorale). The note starts are not characteristic of the actual instruments, and are identical across the woodwind family, giving the chorale a very organesque sound.

[rr_my_JJ]

The new Musesounds is really good, but that clarity of fast notes is definitely still a work in progress, as well as the linkage between sound texture / articulation / dynamics and respective music notation

[ollieedwardes]

Sibelius sounds pretty good on musescore

[AriannaCunningham]

I've actually played Sibelius's Finlandia a few years ago when I was part of the Western Regional Honors All State Orchestra back when I was a High School Freshman.
This playback of Muse Sounds playing this piece sounds amazing! Well done on this interpretation!

[bookoobeans]

Appreciate the evaluation from someone with experience. Thank you.

[tuukkamatikainen]

Finland related subject detected, activate "Torilla tavataan"

Also, holy smokes that sounds good on ms4

[leonids]

Это симфоническая поэма? Отлично! Спасибо

[bimardu]

It's sad the the fz is so quiet. For example, you can't hear the Bassoon at tact 95

[drewthompson]

I find the articulation sin the woodwinds has an odd 'scoop' sound. The wider the interval, and the more sudden the jump, the worse the scoop. On the clarinet and saxophone, it sounds like a junior high player. On the flute, oboe, bassoon, it just sounds impossible. Forums say the oboe was fixed in October, but ... not on *my* MS4. I like so many of the improvements, but I need to be able to play demo files, and since there's no 'convert' utility to load my MS4 into MS3. (I use aegean orchestra soundfont, and most of the winds samples are as good as MS4... although dynamics lack). Sooo.. I'm still working in MS3. I hope the fixes for the most egregious problems happen fairly soon.

[davidlocke]

Where do these scores come from, are they notated individually or obtained from a source?
Some seriously impressive work on the channel.
David

[bimardu]

But for VST it is very good. Especially when you consider that it is free

[pietervoogt]

Orchestras play it usually different from the score, to get that result you would have to put a dot on the note in the second bar and write shorter notes in bar 6 and 7, for instance. I notice when I write music how the playback in musescore 4 forces me to be more specific with my dynamics, sometimes that is a good thing.

[RSRFan_]

how did you make it so that there were two separate staves for horns but one piece of text in the middle?

[doctorart]

no theme development, but, ☝️not a bad idea 💡

[OW]

How on earth do you have no lag like at all

[jessesmith]

Don’t use the Trills on the timpani bro
Use the Tremolos, they sound better and it’s what you’re actually supposed to use

[joelb]

Would it be possible for you to upload this score? ;)