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Muse Strings
Muse Strings
Muse Group

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.

Works With
MuseScore StudioStaffPad
Rating
61%
Version
0.4.23
Released
2024

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
Solo Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello
Expressive true legato
Multiple repetition samples
Pizzicato, Snap and Col Legno
Trills up to a Perfect 5th
Harmonics/Flageolet sustains
Sul tasto and ponticello sustains
Adaptive staccatos

What’s New?

0.4.23

- Improved Bartok Pizz implementation

The sound quality, particularly in the piano/piano-forte range sound terrible. Dynamics are crazy and must be edited in the mixer. The legato isn't very noticeable. The solo strings, however, sound pretty good and the legato is pronounced. A solo contrabass might be a good future update.

straight-lark313

I used to think they sounded awful, like they were doubled, but that bug can be fixed by adding the "mute" performance direction to the score... dunno why. After doing so they sound alright.

archiepla

The violins, especially the solo ones, sound like trumpets bought on Temu and played by a 2-year-old elephant… What a disappointement: the previous MuseStrings were a lot better. Please improve them.

danielethepianist09

Doesn’t sound anything like a violin. More like someone playing on a saw

stupendous-partridge542

Good ensemble performance, while solo needs some improvement (especially both violin I and II solo which sound really weird). And, yes, a more aggressive play option is welcome.

simple-dmm

If this pack had an option for strings to play a little more aggressively, it'd be perfect

UndergroundBeef

All seems to be well. The Violin does sound a bit strange, but leaps better than the MS Sounds Violin. It sounds much better in full sections than in solos. If you frequently compose using string-sections, this is a must.

light-baboon721

The sound is weird. i feel like its different from previous update but i couldn't pin point what's different.

trusting-whale881

bad solo strings

utter-alpaca78

I LOVE Muse sounds and the idea of having free great sounds is amazing, but I feel they have been made worse. It seems that now you guys can charge people, you are making them sound worse. I hope this is not the mistake, as I LOVE Musescore and use it for writting soundtracks that might one day be my source of income. I have a project coming up that needs beautiful string melodies, but now that legato sucks, I don’t know what to do! I have no budget, and I wish I had never updated the strings. I don’t want to stop using Muse Sounds, but if you don’t do something about this issue, I just might have to. I’m sure many other people feel the same way, so please, unless you don’t want people to trust you and maybe decide on their own to buy products, you should stop making these stupid mistakes.

Paul M. Grenon

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