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  • 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.

17 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.

8 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.

3 min read
  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Virtual instruments

How to use MuseSounds in MuseScore Studio

Install MuseHub, install the free MuseSounds libraries, restart MuseScore Studio and assign sounds in the Mixer — with the notation the engine responds to, the mistakes that keep a score sounding like MIDI, and how the paid libraries and MuseSounds Pro fit in.

5 min read
  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Fundamentals

How to make MuseScore playback sound realistic

MuseScore Studio plays every score with MS Basic, a small built-in soundfont, until you give it something else. Install the free MuseSounds with MuseHub and switch each instrument to them in the Mixer, and the dynamics, slurs and articulations you have already written start to change the sound.

10 min read