Virtual Percussion

Virtual Percussion is a vast collection of orchestral, world, effect, drum set, rhythm section, and related front ensemble instruments. Originally part of Tapspace's award winning VDL library, this Muse Sounds Edition contains a huge array of percussion that's useful across a wide number of styles and genres. This Muse Sounds Edition has been crafted exclusively for use with the Muse Sounds engine found inside MuseScore Studio, and makes writing for percussion inspiring and fun!

A huge array of concert & marching band percussion

$49.99

Developer

Tapspace

Works With

Release date

2026

Version

0.10.12

Download size

405.76 MB

Virtual Percussion

Name: Virtual Percussion
Brand: Tapspace
Price: 49.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 83 (12 reviews)
Author: Tapspace

A huge array of concert & marching band percussion

$49.99

Developer

Tapspace

Works With

Release date

2026

Version

0.10.12

Download size

405.76 MB

Percussion and Drumline demo

Also included in

-11%

Tapspace Drumline and Percussion Bundle

Elite Drumline and Percussion Ensemble for Notation & Production

$79.99 ~~$89.99~~

Virtual Percussion is a huge percussion section, derived from the remaining non-drumline percussion instruments residing in the full Tapspace Virtual Drumline collection. This gargantuan collection contains orchestral, front-ensemble, marching and miscellaneous percussion - around 89 instruments in total, with many variations, articulations, playing techniques and implements.

What Virtual Percussion offers

Huge collection of percussion instruments

Complements Virtual Drumline

Integrates seamlessly with MuseScore Studio

Multiple tools and style variations

Detailed dynamics and repetition samples

What’s new

Mapping Refinements

7 months ago0.10.12

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83% (12)

Mar 22, 20260.10.12

-None of the instruments are in alphabetical order which makes finding a specific instrument a pain in the ass especially since there's almost 90 instruments in the selection. - Adding 2 or more note chords on the xylophone then adding the 32nd note through stem tremolo or the 16th note through stem tremolo if it's on a single note gives the play with shaft sound flag as default and it only seems to work properly when you add the tremolo text or adding an accent or tenuto to the chords. It also affects trills. It also does the play with shaft when you add marcatos. -Also using the play on shaft for the xylophone sound flag makes the notes sound up a half step for some of the notes -Also none of the through the bar tremolos or trills work on the glockenspiel unless you add accents or tenutos. Also the none of glissandi sound flags seem to work -The Hi Tom and Mid Hi toms are basically the same pitches and no matter the drum you put the rolls on, it only plays on the Low Tom -Sound flags on the drumset or hi hats only seem to work only on the note you add it to instead of affecting all the notes unless changed with a different sound flag -Suspended Cymbal always seems to crash on the release on the note even if you use the natural release sound flag

Dec 8, 20250.10.11

This is amazing tool must have VST for your percussion sounds! 10/10, I also recommend getting the VDL Drumline package!

Nov 18, 20250.10.11

I spent $50 on this and don't get me wrong I love it, but the only issue I have with it is that when I try to use a tremolo on a suspended cymbal it doesn't sound like it's being played with mallets it sounds like it's being played with drumsticks and it sounds so bad. Kinda the same thing with the gong, I wanna add gong rolls to my compositions and arrangements but it just sounds like crap. Please if there's anything you can do to help me with this I will be so happy!

Jul 14, 2025

👍These instruments are great, I like them a lot, some are cute, for example, Slide Whistle, Flextone, Vibraslap and Xylophone, they are very common in cartoons and nursery rhymes. But I found that most of the products seem to have increased in price a lot. I saw some products that were originally priced at $19.99, and suddenly increased to $49.99 around April or May this year. Many products have increased in price by about $30-40, although not all products have increased in price, but this situation still makes me sad...😭 But the sound of these products sounds good, so I will still give a positive review. There are actually 84 instruments in this set, including: Agogo Almglocken Angklung Ankle Bells Bass Drum Bass Pan Bell Plates Bell Tree Bird Calls Birds Meinl Bongos Brake Drum Cabasa Castanets China Cymbal Claps Claves Concert Toms Congas Cowbell Crash Cymbals Cricket Crotales Djembe Double 2nd Pan Doumbek Drum Kit Earth Plate Electric Bass Electric Guitar Energy Chimes Finger Cymbals Flexatone Frog Garden Weasel Glockenspiel Gongs Guiro Hi-Hat Ice Bell Impact Drums Jam Blocks Lead Pan Log Drum Maracas Marching Machine Marimba Ocean Drum Piano Propane Tank Rainsticks Ratchet Ribbon Crasher Ride Cymbal Rototoms Shaker Shakerines Shekere Siren Sizzle Cymbal Slapstick Sleigh Bells Slide Whistle Snare Drum Splash Cymbal Suspended Cymbal Swish Knocker Taikos Tam-tam Tambourine Tang Tangs Temple Blocks Thundersheet Timbales Timpani Trash Can Triangle Tubular Bells Typewriter Vibraphone Vibraslap Vibratone Waterphone Wind Chimes Wind Gong Wood Blocks Xylophone

Jul 1, 20250.9.11

The sounds are great. However I’m finding simple things that stand outl. The bowed crotale sound doesn’t sound bowed and theres an attack on each note. The “play with shaft” featrue in Marimba works great, but the xylo version changes pitch down a half step then back up every other note. unuseable currently.

Jan 27, 2026

I'm leaving a negative review here in hopes that it's genuinely seen. This review previously complained about the lack of auxiliary percussion combos, but these got added! I'm truly appreciative, but there are some issues that come with the new combos that I'd love to see fixed. All combos have very limited dynamic range, meaning they either get covered up by the ensemble or stand out way too much. The snare in the concert combo also switches from having the snare on to off whenever it plays tremolos/doubles (despite me finicking with style options). Other issues have popped up as I've worked with the combos, and I've posted about several on the MuseScore forum, and no one has been able to help me. I'd appreciate a deeper look into this library to get these bugs/oversights fixed.

Nov 30, 2024

Love it but it needs rack combos. It's a nightmare having to change instruments just to create a rack part.

Nov 3, 2024

I love using this version of VDL for muse score but the thing I'm always missing is racks since I always write for marching and indoor.

Jun 27, 20250.9.11

I believe that VDL and VP are both very good, each having their own unique features. I believe that VP is very wide in instrument choices, having so many that I can barely find a use for them all. The melodic percussion sounds very nice and doesn't sound far away and empty in a way like Muse Percussion does. One of my issues though is that Vibraphone is missing its ability to work with pedal markings, and it seems that other people have had issues with it. Another issue I have is that the suspended cymbal releases are sounding very... funny.. after the release or the "final strike" of the cymbal, the sound sort of bounces and re-swells. Another little bug I've found is that on the marimba, if you give any pitch a 16th stem tremolo, it would turn into suspended cymbal chokes. I tried seeing if the official Tapspace manual for VDL had something about it, but nothing. Im not sure if this was intended, or a pure bug, but its something. Another thing I seen was that when I click on a note, specifically a tonal/auxiliary percussion staff, the sound will continue to play over and over, replaying the same sample. An example would be the flexatone, suspended cymbal, or ratchet. But overall, bugs behind, this is a dang well sound for Musescore. EDIT: June 27, I would like to add that they have fixed pedal marking for vibraphone, but now without them, it sounds like they manually cut the audio short, but it doesn't bug me that much. The only thing we are fully missing is the rack combos and mixed percussion staves!

Sep 9, 2024

I'm super impressed with the amount of detail that mapping the library with Musescore, especially with its soundflag options. Here are some of my gripes -No option to map multiple perc instruments on one staff -Cymbal rolls are a little buggy (ie not naturally releasing or following the mute release soundflag) -No way to release vibraphone pedaling atm

Virtual Percussion

Percussion and Drumline demo

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Previews

Percussion and Drumline demo

Also included in

What Virtual Percussion offers

What’s new

Annoying issues

Great Prodcut

Cymbal rolls and gong rolls sound terrible.

Great but very expensive, too.

Overall Good / Definite Quirks & Problems

great start, more tweaks needed

Rack combos

Need all the Rack Combos!!

Personal Opinion on VDL/VP

Quite good

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Annoying issues

Great Prodcut

Cymbal rolls and gong rolls sound terrible.

Great but very expensive, too.

Overall Good / Definite Quirks & Problems

great start, more tweaks needed

Rack combos

Need all the Rack Combos!!

Personal Opinion on VDL/VP

Quite good

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