MuseSounds & notation

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 & 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • MuseSounds & notation
  • Spotlights & stories

MuseSounds Pro welcomes Cinesamples

Five Cinesamples libraries are now part of MuseSounds Pro: CineStrings, CineBrass, CineWinds, CinePerc and VOXOS Epic Choirs. Subscribers get the Cine orchestra and an epic choir for MuseScore Studio at the same price, and the subscription grows to 34 libraries.

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  • MuseSounds & notation

What is MuseSounds Pro?

MuseSounds Pro is the subscription for the paid MuseSounds libraries. It gives MuseScore Studio 34 partner libraries at once, from the Vienna, Spitfire and Cinesamples orchestras to Cantai, which sings the lyrics in your score.

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