Muse Group proudly presents Muse Strings: an incredible free collection of sectional and solo strings, featuring a lush symphonic strings section, and a detailed and intimate string quartet. Performed by some of the finest session musicians, captured in breathtaking detail and lovingly crafted for effortless playback in MuseScore Studio.
Muse Group proudly presents Muse Strings: an incredible free collection of sectional and solo strings, featuring a lush symphonic strings section, and a detailed and intimate string quartet. Performed by some of the finest session musicians, captured in breathtaking detail and lovingly crafted for effortless playback in MuseScore Studio.
Muse Group proudly presents Muse Strings: an incredible free collection of sectional and solo strings, featuring a lush symphonic strings section, and a detailed and intimate string quartet. Performed by some of the finest session musicians, captured in breathtaking detail and lovingly crafted for effortless playback in MuseScore Studio.
What’s New?
0.4.23
- Improved Bartok Pizz implementation
Description
We set out to record both sectional and solo strings, performing an in-depth palette of articulations with a modern yet expressive playing style and recorded with great studio gear. After almost a year of painstaking sessions, recordings, editing and programming Muse Strings is ready to take your compositions to new levels of realism. The collection is designed with a consistent set of articulations across all sections and instruments. Expressive sustains, true legato, portamento and fast run samples bring your melodic lines to new heights. Trills have been recorded up to a perfect 5th, which can add a wonderful colour to your score. There’s an array of short notes, with speed controlled staccatos and staccatissimos, pizzicatos (including snap/Bartok pizz) and col legno to add energy and motion into your composition. Marcatos, accents, senza vibrato sustains, as well as sustains played “sul tasto” and “sul ponticello” round out this impressive collection. From energetic action sequences to romantic scenes, Muse Strings brings emotion and realism to your score.
Muse Sounds require no set up or effort to work with - simply write your music and push play.
Best of all, Muse Strings is completely FREE for you to use in your compositions.
Made with ❤️ by Muse.
Ensemble Violins 1, Violins 2, Violas, Cellos and Basses
The dynamics are extremely unbalanced (especially the violas) and the portamento feature all the strings have is gut-wrenchingly horrible. Please fix.
These strings have really good dynamic changes and work great for slow pieces or longer melodies. For fast pieces I learned that the staccato markings on 8th notes or 16th notes add a better support, and make it sound 10x better!!
0.4.23
In slow tempos, the legato playback doesn't work correctly. The transitions between notes sound disconnected or unnatural. Also there are issues with the balance. But the tone is great, so I hope it will be fixed
0.4.23
Again: free sounds, and much more decent ones than in the previous versions of Musescore! However, be aware that these strings will require tweeking in the mixer, and that nothing can be done to have them stop crissing and be expressive instead… That said, as long as it's free…
NB: there are no "spiccato" options, as of now
0.4.23
It always says unable to download when trying to download it :(
0.4.23
For a free sound it's pretty good. Wouldn't pay for it.
I can hear some difference whatsoever, but the difference is so minimal that this is definitely not worth 5.5GB on your hard drive.
Also add in solo contrabass
0.4.23
The solo instruments don't sound as realistic as I would want them to be and the dynamics of the ensemble are a mess on the lower end (especially for the violas). The cellos are too loud during Piano passages and the violas are too quiet. This would be a problem if I had to pay for it but considering that these are free, all in all, Muse Strings really isn't that bad.
But for the love of god, please fix this.
The MuseStrings collection is horrible!! The basic strings are better if you’re looking for non-portamento, audible strings. The portamento on the paid version is truly awful, and even when you put it on classic phrasing, it sounds terrible. MuseHub, please fix this!
The pack overall is very good--but, there are some downsides with it. The intonation on some of the voices are very, very, bad. Adding to this, there is no 'Contrabass Solo' included in this, but there is a solo voice for every other stringed instrument. But if you ignore these factors, the pack is great.
