Muse Strings is a free, world-class collection of solo and ensemble strings, featuring both a rich symphonic section and an intimate string quartet. Performed by top-tier session players and recorded with stunning clarity, each instrument is tailored for expressive, seamless playback in MuseScore Studio.
Muse Strings is a free, world-class collection of solo and ensemble strings, featuring both a rich symphonic section and an intimate string quartet. Performed by top-tier session players and recorded with stunning clarity, each instrument is tailored for expressive, seamless playback in MuseScore Studio.
Muse Strings is a free, world-class collection of solo and ensemble strings, featuring both a rich symphonic section and an intimate string quartet. Performed by top-tier session players and recorded with stunning clarity, each instrument is tailored for expressive, seamless playback in MuseScore Studio.
What’s New?
0.4.25
- Glissando and Portamento improvements for Classic Phrasing
- Fixes to Violas and Contrabasses portamento
Description
We set out to record both sectional and solo strings, performing an in-depth palette of articulations with a modern yet expressive playing style and recorded with great studio gear. After almost a year of painstaking sessions, recordings, editing and programming Muse Strings is ready to take your compositions to new levels of realism. The collection is designed with a consistent set of articulations across all sections and instruments. Expressive sustains, true legato, portamento and fast run samples bring your melodic lines to new heights. Trills have been recorded up to a perfect 5th, which can add a wonderful colour to your score. There’s an array of short notes, with speed controlled staccatos and staccatissimos, pizzicatos (including snap/Bartok pizz) and col legno to add energy and motion into your composition. Marcatos, accents, senza vibrato sustains, as well as sustains played “sul tasto” and “sul ponticello” round out this impressive collection. From energetic action sequences to romantic scenes, Muse Strings brings emotion and realism to your score.
Muse Sounds require no set up or effort to work with - simply write your music and push play.
Best of all, Muse Strings is completely FREE for you to use in your compositions.
Made with ❤️ by Muse.
Ensemble Violins 1, Violins 2, Violas, Cellos and Basses
Better than the inbuilt string sounds in general, with one notable exception: Slurred expressions are interpreted as glissandi between all the notes. That's not what the slur means on a stringed instrument and it sounds awful; makes a beautiful violin melody sound like it is being sung by a miaowing cat. I tried deactivating the "play" property on the slurs, to see if that helps, but it doesn't. Switching to "classic phrasing, ordinary" helps a bit, but not completely. I've had to switch to a different sound that does not suffer from this problem.
0.4.25
i installed the package and at first I was very happy about the sound improvements, but I noticed some chords sounded odd and some notes didnt sound the same on the real piano so I checked it with my tuner and while both were tuned to round about A=442 the sound was off nearly a quartertone at same other notes. Also i noticed the solo cello doing a weird accent on the end of notes
0.4.25
The lowerstrings (cello and double bass) sound great in both arco and pizz. although it is a pity that there's no solo double bass. The viola are buy default very quiet but luckely this can easily be changed throuhg the mixer. I do not like the violins wich often result in me not using the violins very often. Pizz. does sound good thouhg.
The recent updates have ruined it completely.
No solo contrabass, weird glisses in the parts, instrument don't respect the score… Very unprofessional!
Once upon a time, we had solo contrabass. This was a lovely option to use for jazz works for a traditional 20th Century sound. For several updates, it has seemed to vanish. Please try to work on restoring a minor yet impactful piece of this pack, thank you.
0.4.25
Thank you Muse Group! Something I love about this pack is the real string sound that I've never found in anything else that's free.
I would appreciate it if the random glissandos can be fixed.
0.4.25
Ok so yeah I like this soundfont, it's very symphonic, but from my experience, this doesn't work very well with soloists. There's just random glissandos if there's two notes next to eachother, and personally that doesn't really work that well for the music, so if MuseSounds could update some of that to add glisses only if there's a slur ty or smth to make it better
0.4.25
there are weird glisses in the parts and it just sounds kind of terrible. this doesn't match the description at all!! bruh im so mad i cant compose with this at all!!!!! i think even MC basic strings is better than this... at least to listen to :(((((((((((((
