Fundamentals

Start here if a word in a plugin manual or a tutorial stopped you. Each explainer covers what the thing is, what it does to the sound and when you would reach for it, before pointing you at the tools that do it.

  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Fundamentals

How to transpose in MuseScore Studio

Transpose a whole score, a passage or single notes in MuseScore Studio, by key, by interval or diatonically, and how concert pitch works for transposing instruments.

3 min read
  • Mixing & mastering
  • Fundamentals

EQ before or after compression?

Whether EQ goes before or after a compressor, why the order changes the sound, and the order to use for common mixing situations.

4 min read
  • Audacity
  • Fundamentals

How to use Audacity: a beginner’s guide to Audacity 4

Audacity is a free, open-source audio recorder and editor for Windows, macOS and Linux — not a full DAW. This guide takes a beginner from the download to an exported file in one sitting: getting Audacity 4 through MuseHub, the first launch, the window, a first sound and a first recording, the first cuts, a first effect, cleanup, and save versus export, including sharing to audio.com.

20 min read
  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Fundamentals

What are MuseSounds?

MuseSounds are instrument libraries made for MuseScore Studio. Most use recordings of real musicians, and they follow the dynamics, slurs and articulations you have already written. MuseHub has 72 MuseSounds libraries, and 12 of them are free.

9 min read
  • Fundamentals
  • Free tools

What is MuseHub? The music software store explained

MuseHub is a free app and store for music software — apps, plugins, MuseSounds libraries, loops, courses — from Muse Group, the company behind Audacity and MuseScore Studio. What is in it, what is free, how installing works and who makes the tools.

4 min read