I love it, helps a lot but staccatos I have conflict with. Especially with trumpet. They are not short enough and don't align with woodwinds very well which have excellent staccatos. It shows especially with genres like Jazz. Also, staccatos just don't work on muted trumpet in-fact, they work more as accents. I'm not sure if that is with general muted instruments. Also, fix trombone dynamics, they are barely balanced. Metso-forte to forte feels like piano to fortissimo.
Brass in general ESPECIALLY trumpets sound egregious. I don't even know which band these instruments should be played in, as they always sound out of place no matter if I'm writing for marching, jazz, orchestra, etc.. Tubas keep clipping and do not at all follow articulation markings; chords do not blend well with trombones and horns and as a matter of fact, the brass section as a whole just sounds like one incoherent cacophony of sound. Glissandos and certain ornaments just... do nothing. To add to the aforementioned articulation complaint; it's so bad that notes that should simply separate with the addition of a marcato or staccato marking, I now have to change the note to half its original value (i.e., quarter to 8th, 8th to 16th, etc.) for it to even sound LIKE separate notes. To prove to myself I wasn't crazy, I made the brass section play a simple quarter note en masse, and even repeated the experiment with articulation markings... Trash.And the trumpets... GOD what isn't there to say about the trumpets. My old middle school band's trumpets sound LEAGUES better than whatever the hell you guys were cooking with these. The scream register cuts off about halfway and high notes even within reasonable range just sound weak altogether. It sounds like the player has a migraine. If I'm being honest, your composers are better off using the basic sound font and fiddling with the mixer settings. All in all, an incredibly shameful update. Sickening.
Powerfull horns, and just for that (and the fact that's free), I love it !
Makes brass sound horrible when using Jazz
The trumpets need a lot of improvements. The trumpet section sounds as if the players are confused about how to play their instruments, while the solo trumpet skips notes here and there when playing, which is very annoying.
First of all, Dynamic...if dynamic is from 0-100, then pp is 2-5, p is 10, mp is 20, mf is 30, f is 90, FF is 95. YES, the gap is THAT BIG Second, They sampled this thinking its like sampling Strings and Wood Winds (Which they did good job of). Everything is either Sustain or the Short Staccatos. Accent are way to over powered in the sustain notes. Third, most trumpet player uses a Bb trumpet which can play down to a concert E, they stopped at F#.
I bet if you had added a euphonium originally when you made this pack for the first time, it wouldn't be costing money now. 15 dollars (on sale btw) for a euphonium is CRAZY. The tuba has a glitch with the audio and that's already a separate problem. Where is my euphonium? So sad that you're separating it from the rest just to get a few more bucks. All you had to do was add it to the free brass pack like how you did when you added a ton more percussion instruments to the free percussion pack. I was so happy when I got the ad for the euphonium on MuseScore, and then I checked the site and turns out, you ruined everything. Make it free. Refund everyone who buys it.
i really love this musesound but it's lacking some things. 1. no portamento glissando support, i want this so bad, especially for the trombones. 2. please make it so trumpet a4 can go down to at least a concert e3. (solo trumpet can but trumpet a4 can't for some reason) 3. a tuba a2 or a3 would be nice, same with bass trombone.
Good free brass sounds but too big gap between mf and f for trombone
These sounds are extremely good but are missing a key part of the brass section... EUPHONIUMS! We need euphoniums and it's a major part of the ensemble. Please add it soon!!
There are six different types of flutes between the piccolo, flute 1, flute 2, alto flute, bass flute, and contrabass flute. And yet there is only trumpet, horn, trombone, bass trombone(only recently added), cimbasso, and tuba. There is somehow a cimbasso before euphonium, Eb/C/piccolo trumpet, Eb/C/Bb cornet, baritone, differentiation between Eb/C/Bb/F tubas, soprano/alto/contrabass trombone, flugelhorn, or even alto/tenor horn(brass band). Most people have never even heard of a cimbasso before, and still it came out before all of those and the bass trombone.
the dynamics on the trumpet are atrocious its so bad like if you want a trumpet, don't get this. The volume switches randomly
I am so impressed!
it sounds great, but pretty much every wind instrument as far as i could tell has trouble swinging notes when either when written in a “swung” style or manually writing it in the notation.
This is an excellent set of brass instruments; it's made my MuseScore experience much better. While my one issue is completely understandable, it does cause some problems in the piece I downloaded this for. The Horn in F doesn't have B2 (sounding as E1) in the library, which is used frequently in my score. This is a *very* low note, which I imagine is quite difficult to produce consistently. Still, it is entirely possible for professional horn players, especially those who specialize in the lower register. I would be glad to see the horn's range extended.
The timbre is a huge upgrade compared to the original sound fonts so if you mainly use Musescore as a playback software, it's a no brainer, but the unbalanced dynamics ruin it for score writers.
The solo instrument sounds are a significant improvement to the muse basic ones, despite some inconsistencies with dynamics. However it would be nice to also update this pack with other orchestral brass instruments such as a euphonium and Alto and F Contrabass Trombones. As a further request, I feel this package needs a similar counter-part package for Brass Band instruments such as Eb and Bb Cornets, Eb Tenor and Bb Baritone Horns, and Eb and Bb Bass Tubas. All in all this package is very useful despite being underdeveloped.
Well, it's free (for now…), so I won't complain. Is it perfect? No. Does it require tuning? Yes, but it's always been the case with Musescore, and it's so much more decent than what we used to have, so...
The tuba sometimes creates very annoying clicks after playing any notes that aren't accent. Please fix this.
Good sounds, but ensembles aren't good in playing fast staccatos.
Trombones are not very balanced when it comes to dynamics. For example I put it as mezzo-forte which is supposed to be a medium LOUD, and I still can't hear it that much when all the other instruments are playing.
Great, but there's no euphonium, and the dynamics are not good. Also, there's a weird cutoff sound on some notes on the tuba.
I really like Muse Brass! The sound quality and range of instruments are impressive. However, when it comes to writing for concert band, marching band, and jazz band, this pack feels a bit limited. You already have great jazz saxophones in Muse Woodwinds, so I would love to see jazz trumpets, flugelhorns, trombones, and bass trombones added. For concert band, it would be great to include a euphonium, Bb tuba, and Eb tuba. For marching band, adding a mellophone, baritone horn, and sousaphone would be beneficial. In terms of brass band, it would be fantastic to have cornets, bugles, flugelhorns, alto horns, baritone horns, euphoniums, Eb tubas, and Bb tubas. For orchestral works, it would also be nice to have a piccolo and bass trumpet included. These additions could significantly enhance Muse Brass and make it a more versatile tool for composers and arrangers.
not all balance, and also the sound of the trombones are not balance its like overplayed same as the french horns.