musescore (2.3.2+dfsg2-2) unstable; urgency=medium There are now multiple suitable soundfonts for use by MuseScore: - musescore-general-soundfont (the full-fledged high-quality one) 0.1.1: 36'876 KiB on-disc (213'270.3 KiB decompressed) 0.1.3: 84'507 KiB on-disc (480'480.9 KiB decompressed) - musescore-general-soundfont-small (new, drop-in replacement for the above, same bank and preset support, but uses same samples instead of individual ones for ensembles, does not have the new piano and strings, but better quality than Fluid, some stereo samples, and all the bugfixes) 0.1.3: 25'059 KiB on-disc (116'258.9 KiB decompressed) - fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont (old, mono and less well-tuned) 2.315: 23'084 KiB on-disc (121'504.2 KiB decompressed) In general, musescore-common will be happy with any soundfont that Provides musescore-compatible-soundfont, or those listed above. To provide that, MuseScore_General.sf3 is now managed by the Debian update-alternatives system (or a symlink set by a local sysadmin). Run the following command and select “0” at the prompt to ensure that the highest-quality soundfont is used by default or choose another option for manual selection, for example if the soundfont takes too long, when you have multiple soundfonts installed: $ sudo update-alternatives --config MuseScore_General.sf3 As Debian jessie has reached EOL for backports, the fallback to fluid-soundfont-gm is no longer supported; upgrading will install a suitable soundfont (but you may wish to choose yourself). -- Thorsten Glaser Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:08:57 +0100 musescore (2.2.1+dfsg1-3) unstable; urgency=medium This release uses an older soundfont (Fluid GM) as fallback if the Debian package musescore-general-soundfont containing the new MuseScore soundfont is not installed. Fluid (R3) Mono is the soundfont used by MuseScore 2.0 and 2.1 and therefore may still be on your system. Please install the aforementioned package to enjoy the new and improved soundfont; you can then uninstall the fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont package (or Fluid (R3) from fluid-soundfont-gm in jessie-backports-sloppy). If musescore-general-soundfont is not available / backported for your distribution (yet), you can install the binary package from Debian unstable which will correctly work on versions as old as, at least, jessie (8) and precise (12.04). New installations of musescore in buster will pull in the new soundfont by default, no manual action required there, unless the fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont package (which only was introduced in buster (10) / stretch-backports (9) / bionic (18.04) / PPA) was previously installed. The old MuseScore 1.x soundfont (timgm6mb-soundfont, also known as musescore-soundfont-gm) is orthogonal to this issue and may optionally be installed additionally to a 2.x soundfont (it can still be selected in the Sequencer settings and will work fine, within its limited instrument range). -- Thorsten Glaser Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:48:47 +0200