Muse Woodwinds Reviews
This pack is really good in some cases, but for others its not. The scoops come in early and sound bad, the bari sax has trouble with some rhythms, alto sax is extremely loud and on all woodwinds the trill takes too long to occur. I write for big band so this kind of limits my ability to hear what it is supposed to sound like with all of the bugs and weird sounds. The default musescore sounds don't sound better (they are worse), but they don't struggle with these things as much as this pack does. But still it's VERY good for being free.
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Please add Bass Saxophone support, I write for sax quintets often and it sounds really odd with the default bass sax sound while everything else sounds good.
Love the warmness of the flutes, but one thing that bugs me are the falls and scoops on any saxophone. They have this absurd cut-off before the next note plays, making it sound super unnatural. It reduces the fluidity which is necessary for jazz pieces (or any at this point) :(
This has great sounds, but all but clarinets and contrabassoon have broken soft dynamics and when there is any vibrato, it gets louder than I would like. Additionally, the English Horn does not sound good and could be better played by a high schooler. There is Eb clarinet but not the more useful and common A Clarinet. I am disappointed in that. Contrabass clarinet is much more common than contrabass flute. I want to be able to use that rapines in my scores. There are less than 20 real contrabass flutes and I am surprised that the developers of this library got to sample one and still put this pack out for free. I am in the process of creating a sample library and this is a fine example of what not to do. Please take this into account.
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Is this the instrument range, or can piccolo not play very high staccato notes? It only reaches up to A6! also, at F#6, the staccato piccolo notes detune by 1 half step up.
All other saxes get more mellow at lower volumes, but the alto sax stays incredibly bright, even at pianissimo. This isn’t something I can solve by just lowering the volume in the mixer or changing the note velocity in the properties pane. Please please please prioritize this fix!
The bass clarinet and contrabassoons accented staccato sounds very bad all the other woodwinds sound good its just those two the bass clarinet will honk in the high notes f and above and also the low notes low f and below (sometimes) contrabassoons just doesn't sound good I don't really know if anyone ever uses accented staccato now in these days but it is something that I have noticed and also all the winds (and brass) with the caesura they all cut off early when the strings cut off at the right time (idk if anyone else has had this problem but it is happening for me)
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I have trouble with trills on the flute, especially the piccolo. Instead of starting right away with the trill, it sounds the note, cuts off abruptly, and then performs the trill at the end of the note.
no contrabass or contralto clarinet? but contrabass flute? also bass sax sounds amazing please add it
i have issues with this pack including staccato playback being louder than legato, most noticeably in first flute above the staff (which seems to be an issue across all free musesounds as well as accents being strange, especially many in a row) but biggest issue is the choice of instruments provided: contrabass flute is present and not A clarinet, contrabass clarinet or basset horns; flute B foots are common enough but aren't mapped at all; and baroque instruments like recorder and traverso are absent. a step up from ms basic but needs work
Scoops always come in early, is there any way to have a soundflag to have it happen on beat?
I want to write for contrabass clarinet but there is no option with this pack i would love it if you guys added contrabass clarinet
I don't know wht happened in the last updates, but the sounds were GREAT in the past. Today I opened a Project that use this sounds, and they are awful now... specially the Sax!
There were other instruments like the german spielmannsflöte or the bass sax Or the clarinets in A, G or E like smth
Saxes need some balance work - bari goes from very soft to very loud in mf to f, and the soprano sound is absolutely awful. Otherwise, everything is decent for a free one, especially the bassoons, which I prefer over the paid cinewinds bassoon.
The sax sounds HORRIBLE with the new update. What are you doing?!
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The F5, F#5 and G are all out of tune when the dynamic is mezzo-forte or lower especially when it's for example D to F# or if it's the starting note.
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Its pretty good it just really needs Contrabass Clarinet or even Contra-Alto, as well as Bass Saxophone. Don’t know why you would need Contrabass Flute over Contrabass Clarinet?
I love this soundfont, awesome. But i think it needs other instruments like possibly bass sax, contrabass clarinet, and hecklophone or bass oboe.
I've been learning how to write music for a while now and recently I've been obsessed about the sound the bass sax makes. I NEED ITTTTT
The biggest problems I have with pack are the with the flutes and clarinets. The flute and piccolo sounds tend to slide a bit when jumping notes. The biggest problem I have is that the clarinet's lower register notes sound awful, especially when you reach the low g. Please fix this.
I love most of this "pack" but with some issues ; first the sound level of the different instrument is not correctly balanced, some are inaudle and some are too loud ! And second, the treble of the alto saxophone sounds really bad But it's reakky good anyways but pleeaaseee fix this :)
The saxes sound amazing but they could improve for jazz, the soprano is extremely weak and exclusively work for classical, and the other saxes only sound “jazzy” on forte. Also glissandos and scoops don’t really sound as they should. On the saxes it gets extremely loud and short and with the clarinet it just lowers the pitch and sound weird. Good product but needs improvement for jazz. Great for orchestral though
The higher woodwinds (oboe, flutes...) sound pretty good, and the clarinet family is good but it just needs a contrabass clarinet. the basoon is good but the contrabasoon is very quiet. the saxophones sound pretty good (especially the baritone it sounds soo good) but the alto sounds a bit too "unjazzy" and I need bass saxophone.