The guiro is an instrument (not always used in orchestras) which is in the Musescore set, while orchestral gongs are not.īy deliberately using another instrument outside its range (or several sounding together) it may be possible to get something to work in Musescore, but that does seem a bit of a kludge. There's really no major reason why there shouldn't be thousands of possible instruments, and each could even have appropriate audio files - as memory has become relatively cheap, and even if storage might be a problem, there are techniques to allow instrument sounds to be encoded in very small samples nowadays. Many constraints of the earlier Midi systems must surely have faded into insignificance now. Obviously if one is using a DAW and has suitable audio samples it's possible to get closer to the desired effects, but for almost the whole of my life I have known that gongs were part of an orchestral ensemble. Is there any scope for "standard" GM to be enhanced - maybe Musescore could lead the way? I don't know. I was discussing writing a piece tonight, and a suggestion was to put in a loud gong - but of course when I went to find "it", there isn't one!
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