If you write music as a score rather than in a DAW, this is your section. It covers MuseSounds — the sample libraries built for MuseScore Studio playback — alongside notation and transcription tools.
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.
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.
Music transcription software turns a recording into MIDI, sheet music, or tabs so you can edit, learn, or re-use a performance. Here are the best tools — free and paid — ranked by accuracy, instrument focus, and workflow.
Music notation software lets you write, edit, hear, and print sheet music. Here are the best options — free and paid, desktop and browser — for composing, arranging, engraving, and learning.
The best piano VSTs for realistic grands, felt uprights and electric keys — sampled and physically-modeled libraries for producers and composers, plus free, studio-recorded pianos you install in one click on MuseHub.