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Long notes cut off early

Open erinic04 opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

Issue type

General playback bug

Bug description

When you have a long note (its just more visible for long notes) it will cut off the note early and not play the whole duration of the note. For a 31 measure long note at 120 bpm it cuts off about 6.5 beats early from what I've seen (about 5%)

Steps to reproduce

  1. Make new score
  2. Enter in a long note
  3. Observe the note ending early

Screenshots/Screen recordings

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/assets/21023353/8da12519-7881-4444-94cd-2b3d0de86cf8

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/assets/21023353/782af74f-187c-4778-8d3a-b8cbcdce6a26

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/assets/21023353/aad22f77-d1c9-4ce2-900a-5956b6226cab

MuseScore Version

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.2.1-240230937, revision: github-musescore-musescore-d757433

Regression

I don't know

Operating system

Reported on Windows 11

Additional context

No response

erinic04 avatar May 06 '24 01:05 erinic04

I think this is by design that the last 5% isn't played cause that helps to separate out notes with short note values and/or fast tempos. I think the tenuto mark brings it from that 95% to 100% if I remember right?

DaddyLudwig avatar May 06 '24 01:05 DaddyLudwig

Even if it is by design, it shouldn't be a percentage, rather it should be a fixed note value so you don't run into problems with really long notes.

erinic04 avatar May 06 '24 02:05 erinic04

Indeed. The 95% was an experiment from long ago, implemented for piano and flute only originally, to simulate the effect of a slur (notes under a slur were not shortened. Percentage was used because that was the only way to represent that in the old instruments.xml that controlled articulations.

So I assume the current behavior is artifact of that, and definitely should be changed so that notes get full value by default. A shortening of the last note under a slur is reasonable, but as noted, it shouldn’t be a percentage.

MarcSabatella avatar May 06 '24 03:05 MarcSabatella

This only seems to be an issue with specific MSBasic instruments.

I'm guessing theres more but I believe the organ and synthesizers instruments are the main culprits

zacjansheski avatar Jun 14 '24 20:06 zacjansheski