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  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Fundamentals

What are MuseSounds?

MuseSounds are sample libraries made for MuseScore Studio. They play your score with recordings of real musicians and follow the dynamics, slurs and articulations you have already written. MuseHub has 72 MuseSounds libraries, and 12 of them are free.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Audacity
  • Mixing & mastering

How to use effects and plugins in Audacity

Install plugins through MuseHub, validate them in Audacity, and use them as realtime effects on a track or the master, or as one-off destructive edits — with the formats Audacity 4 loads, the mistakes that make a plugin ‘not work’, and free plugins to start with.

  • Mixing & mastering

Best reverb plugins in 2026 (free and paid)

From lush halls to gritty plates — the best reverb plugins for vocals, drums and full mixes, including standout free picks you can install in one click on MuseHub.