I’ve been using it for the last few weeks, it’s not bad at all! My only gripes are only 5 basses, no options for 6 or more basses, and the sticking still isn’t figured out yet.
The biggest gripe I have had with musescore as a whole is importing scores or parts from a sibelius exported xml (compressed or uncompressed), and even sending a musescore file to someone else and them importing parts, bass drum parts sometimes just get put on one line... I really like MDL, especially for writing tuplets and the accessibility, but the importing is brutal. I honestly think its a thing sibelius bakes in somewhere to make life harder for non-sibelius users. Different software architectures are going to have issues, but how the XML format is supposed to be the universal language between programs but it just doesnt translate correctly sucks.
Great review dude!! #1 fail on their end, dirty drumline playback makes it 100% non-usable. No one needs their kids to hear a dirty battery on the show mp3. I’ll take old VDL’s sound quality trade off for playing perfectly in time - You can change and alter EQ and all that, but you can’t fix bad sample editing. I heard this in their first demo they posted too, and hearing it’s just baked in, rough. They’d have to re-edit the entire sample collection and also remove the round robin as an option. If it can’t play basic street beat stuff clean, it’s going to be a complete disaster for anything even remotely challenging or dense. Maybe there’s plans for that and they just launched it early, but this is a long way from being a daily workhorse.
I definitely agree, it’s got some work to go before it could justify any mainstream usage. I’m interested in checking out the VDL offering on MuseScore!
At the very least, you can set the snare and quad playback to be "solo" using the sound flags. It won't sound as thick and full as a whole battery playing, but at least playback for them won't be dirty. The bass unisons, however... Yikes. Nothing you can do there.
I’ve been using it for the last few weeks, it’s not bad at all! My only gripes are only 5 basses, no options for 6 or more basses, and the sticking still isn’t figured out yet.
Can you review the VDL sounds for musescore 🙏 Awesome review
The biggest gripe I have had with musescore as a whole is importing scores or parts from a sibelius exported xml (compressed or uncompressed), and even sending a musescore file to someone else and them importing parts, bass drum parts sometimes just get put on one line... I really like MDL, especially for writing tuplets and the accessibility, but the importing is brutal. I honestly think its a thing sibelius bakes in somewhere to make life harder for non-sibelius users. Different software architectures are going to have issues, but how the XML format is supposed to be the universal language between programs but it just doesnt translate correctly sucks.
Great review dude!!
#1 fail on their end, dirty drumline playback makes it 100% non-usable. No one needs their kids to hear a dirty battery on the show mp3. I’ll take old VDL’s sound quality trade off for playing perfectly in time - You can change and alter EQ and all that, but you can’t fix bad sample editing.
I heard this in their first demo they posted too, and hearing it’s just baked in, rough. They’d have to re-edit the entire sample collection and also remove the round robin as an option. If it can’t play basic street beat stuff clean, it’s going to be a complete disaster for anything even remotely challenging or dense.
Maybe there’s plans for that and they just launched it early, but this is a long way from being a daily workhorse.
I definitely agree, it’s got some work to go before it could justify any mainstream usage. I’m interested in checking out the VDL offering on MuseScore!
At the very least, you can set the snare and quad playback to be "solo" using the sound flags. It won't sound as thick and full as a whole battery playing, but at least playback for them won't be dirty. The bass unisons, however... Yikes. Nothing you can do there.