
Please read up on the history of normalization if you continue to have questions about why it is standard audio procedure and has been for decades. The whole point is oso that people listening to your music here it at the volume level they have set. Normalization exists for a reason, so when listening to the radio for instance you aren't constantly having to adjust the volume for every song to have it the way you like it. Not unless you want people giving up in frustration every time they try to listen to one of your pieces because it's louder or softer than everything else on their system. You'll need to find your system mixer and adjust that to get playback the way you want it on your system For everyone else, though, it will be normal already, since your system mixer doesn't affect anyone else's systems.Īgain, you absolutely do not want to disable normalization. Like I said, it seems you probably adjusted the system mixer to change the relative volume of MuseScore versus whatever browser you are using to view the score on. What does it sound like when played, is very important to them, and to me.
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I know you said it is not my job to adjust volumes during playback in the mixer, but that is what folks listen to when they decide to rate the song, or save it as a favorite or download it. If so, I would like to turn Normalization off on the website (or in my MuseScore program before export) so the song is not arbitrarily lowered in the volume in some notes. Every other note is increased or DECREASED in volume to compensate. It is as if the website LOWERED the volume of the overall song, possibly to normalize it so that the loudest note becomes the peak note. In some songs, the volume of the playback on the website is much lower than the playback I experienced when played in MuseScore on my own system.

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When I play it back on the website by clicking the "Play" tab at the top, it should sound exactly as I uploaded it, since I did not change any volume settings on my own Windows system. I then save the score and upload it WITH THE MP3 recording, to the MuseScore website. I then create a MuseScore score and set the dynamics and my Mixer sliders so that the song plays at a nice volume on my system. Let's say I set my Windows computer speakers at 50% volume. Thanks as always for the comprehensive reply, but sadly, I am now a bit confused. That's how ti's been done for literally decades. Someone who listens to music quietly will want your quiet, and someone who listens to music loudly will want yours loud. The whole point of normalization is to make that process as simple as possible - so people wanting to listen to music aren't forces to fiddle with their volume knobs because your music is set differently from. It's not your job to try to control the overall volume at which others listen to music, nor is it even possible because they each have their own volume controls. So if you turn one instrument up louder than the others, or softer, that applies to playback within MuseScore as well as in exported audio or online.īut overall volume is meaningless when sharing scores with others, because they each have their own systems with their own speakers and their own preferred listening levels. Within MuseScore, yes, the sliders for control the relative levels of each instrument are honored for audio export, including the audio that is exported when you publish to. It may be at some point you previously turned MuseScore up, or turned your browser down. That is what controls the overall volume of each application. When I mentioned the system mixer, I don't mean within MuseScore - I mean the mixer provided by your operating system (e.g., Windows, macOS, Linux).

Ps - here is a link to one particular score that became too low on the website (particularly in the beginning):

Is there a way to turn off Normalization on ? If not, can I do something in the MuseScore program to fix this? I don't want the loud volumes to dim, and I don't want the quiet dynamics to go even quieter. I know that if my score contains any loud dynamics such as "mf" or "f", normalization will lower their volume for those measures, but it also seems to be lowering my low dynamics (pp and p) to even lower volume. Anywhere I have a "p" or "pp" dynamic now becomes so low I can barely hear it. However, when I upload them to the MuseScore website with their corresponding MP3 recording, I discover that the website has apparently "normalized" the recorded song and lowered it volume. There are a few songs that I complete on MuseScore, and play at home just fine. I know there has been some discussion about Normalization, but I did not find the answer to my question in those posts.
