Muse Brass Reviews
It is necessary an immediate update cause when using staccatissimo on solo horn it crashes the sound very bad and solo and a3 trombone doesn’t play staccatissimo with sordina. Plus reverb doesn’t affect the sound at all, leaving every instrument dry even when putting it at max volume.
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putting staccatissimo on horns make everything else bug out and go quiet for a moment
Muse Brass is a useful and well-balanced brass library, especially for sketching, studying, and composing in MuseScore. The sound is clear and pleasant, but there are still some limitations in the articulations, repeated notes, and especially the naturalness of the dynamics. For those working with Classical-period music, the French horns could be improved. The sound is somewhat modern and homogeneous, whereas an optional set of natural horns from the 18th century would be extremely valuable, with different open/stopped tones, more varied attacks, and a more authentic response. Overall, Muse Brass is a good and practical library, but greater articulation variety, more organic dynamics, and historically informed.
As someone else has pointed out, after the most recent update brass instrument can play staccato. Trumpet staccato was already too long before this update, but now neither horns nor trumpets can play staccato unless notated with a staccatissimo mark (and even then, horns are not really playing staccatissimo). Accents even seem to work better to shorten the notes than staccato markings.
Developer Response: See Muse Brass 1.0.4 pattern note
thank you for fixing dynamic issues in 1.0.3! 1.0.4 however added back issues with staccatos, especially with high brass sustaining past their cutoffs even with staccato markings. also, short notes being louder than longer notes still has not been addressed.
PLEASE make glissandos work with musesound trombones… it only works with MS basic :((
Some instruments still work okay, others (such as horns, trumpet, trombone) are back to blaring through staccato passages and even rests.
The staccatissimo sound on the bass trombone and French horn causes an audio glitch. The staccatos are very good in this new update, though the trombone is still a bit shrill; it could be made to sound closer to the bass trombone.
1.05 has fixed the solo sampling issues seen in 1.02 & 1.04. However, "staccatissimo" on the solo horn is now causing notable stuttering in playback. "Staccato" on bass trombone suffers from similar stuttering, albeit less intense.
Overall, as a free pack, it's great. Definitely way better than the Muse Basic Sounds. However, as other people have expressed, trumpets, as well as horns, do not play staccato markings as indicated. I've tried this with and without the "Natural Dynamics" sound flag, to no avail. Additionally, I quite liked the change to the trombone volumes, especially at mezzo-forte, from v1.0.2, and I was disappointed that the update as a whole was reversed when it was really trumpets that were the main problem. Overall, as a free pack; it's certainly competes well with the other paid VSTs on here, and I appreciate all the hard work you do to make a quality product.
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They now completely ignore staccato notes, playing staccato passages as if they were written legato. It’s so frustrating when an update comes along and completely breaks the performance of a piece like this. :(
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It’s kind of middle-of-the-road for me, and I sometimes just replace it with Konkat alternatives.
You guys got me very scared, and I have now unscared myself. Thanks!
The trombone solo is a little quiet.
Thank you for reverting this update it sounds much better
Once again, trumpets and horns don't play staccatos short. In addition, not only does the solo horn get its ugly baked-in reverb back, but now ALL the solo instruments do! Tuba's accents also sound a lot weaker without natural dynamics enabled, but that's more of a minor gripe. A lot of people were complaining about the staccato issues and baked-in reverb on the solo horn in 1.0.2. Your team was clearly listening to feedback when you reverted it with 1.0.3, so why are all but a few of the things people were complaining about still present in the revised patch?
I know it's a free pack but the 1.0.1 update had perfectly functioning brass, which got completely ruined by the dynamic balancing in 1.0.2. While yes, the horns and trumpets seem to be back to normal, the trombones are somehow even quieter than before unless you crank up the dynamics to absurd levels. I'm so close to finishing my large orchestral piece and now I have to go back and edit a ton of dynamic changes AGAIN for absolutely no reason. Fix this... or don't, because then I'll have to go and edit everything for a third time.
Developer Response: Hi! We’re sorry to hear you’ve been unhappy with the latest Muse Brass update. We’ve made the previous version available again through MuseHub. To install it, simply download the new Muse Brass 1.0.3 update from your MuseHub library. This release contains the version of Muse Brass that was available prior to the recent update. Thanks!
People like to be harsh with the free MuseSounds, but I think it's more of a management/development problem than the sounds themselves. Yeah, they're not mind-blowing sounding addons, but the fact is they're free and obviously better than General Midi sounds. Some free MuseSounds are definitely better than others; some instruments sound good and some are disappointing, but if you're looking for a more 'realistic' sounding playback, free MuseSounds are 'fine'. For the most part they improve, but in some cases you'll be finicking and working around the limitations to get it to sound right.
After the last update where the way the new sounds completely broke the balance between the whole orchestra was disappointing, i’m glad you updated back. But there was some things to keep, like a bit of improvement in trombones but sadly the balance ruined it, especially for trumpets who were absurdly loud, but are none to be heard in old sounds. This brings us to a problem, the fact you can’t mix volumes by time: you can do a general mix but if in some moment an instrument need to be louder than mp but keeping the mp sound you have to turn it higher on the mixer, making it louder for the rest of the time. I think you need to add the ability of changing volume of instruments at some exact moments as you are able to do in logic pro
Horns doesn't sound fluid, Majestic, staccato and realistic like before!
It seems that after the latest update, the entire brass section in my scores, to put it mildly, has gone crazy — a straightforward, dense, and flat sound without any adherence to a broad dynamic palette and articulations.
Developer Response: Hi! We’re sorry to hear you’ve been unhappy with the latest Muse Brass update. We’ve made the previous version available again through MuseHub. To install it, simply download the new Muse Brass 1.0.3 update from your MuseHub library. This release contains the version of Muse Brass that was available prior to the recent update. Thanks!
Tysm for reverting the update! I'm sorry for sounding too technical (perhaps harsh?) in my late comment. I tend to not express myself well on text, especially when I'm upset. I love you guys' work and dedication. Lowkey inspires me The current version is awesome for a free plugin. Works as expected!
Updating my review. Thank you for listening to user feedback, and reverting to the previous version of Muse Brass. My orchestral brass sections now sound the way they should.