Instruments and SoundFonts

Choose the instrument each track plays, and the set of sounds Reflow plays them with.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Reflow plays your score with its own instruments, on the device, with no connection: a guitar track sounds like a guitar, the bass like a bass, the drums like a kit. The sounds come from a SoundFont, a bank of recorded instruments that ships with Reflow.

A track's instrument

Each tablature and standard track plays one of the 128 General MIDI instruments. To change it, widen the tracks (on iPhone, tap the track’s name at the top) and tapclick the instrument’s name beside the track’s. The menu groups them in families: Piano, Chromatic Percussion, Organ, Guitar, Bass, Strings, Ensemble, Brass, Reed, Pipe, Synth Lead, Synth Pad, Synth Effects, Ethnic, Percussive and Sound Effects. The one the track plays has a check mark.

The instrument changes the sound alone: a guitar part played by a piano keeps its tab, its tuning and its notes.

A drum track has no instrument menu: each piece of the kit has its own sound, chosen in its Drum Mapping (its button in the widened tracks).

The SoundFont

Settings › Audio › SoundFont chooses the bank every track plays from:

• GeneralUser GS, light: about 32 MB of memory;
• MuseScore General, richer: about 486 MB;
• Auto, the default: GeneralUser GS on a device with less than 4 GB of memory, MuseScore General on the others.

The change is heard at once, in every score. While a SoundFont loads, Play and Go to Beginning are dimmed for a moment.

Volume, and hearing notes as you write

Settings › Audio › Output Volume sets how loud Reflow plays everything, and Settings › Playback › Play Notes on Input plays each note as you write it. Each track’s own volume, pan, solo and mute are in the tracks (see Tracks).