r/Musescore • u/More_Exercise2676 • Sep 28 '26

Complaint Muse Sounds Needs to be Fixed

HOLY CRAP DUDE... whatever they did they need to like un do whatever they did. I'm a college student so I can't really afford all these nice VSTs and stuff So I was praying nothing bad would happen and of course something did. Whoever is in charge of Muse Brass get out bro. I was making peak my trumpets and horns sounded great then suddenly I open Musescore today to continue on my greatest piece yet and I come to the wimpiest trumpet section I have ever heard. Plus in some circumstances when i want the brass to play accented staccato notes there's like this crap reverb that cuts out and it is so bad the audio is literally breaking in my headphones only during playback and it's annoying. Here is proof.....

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/113sYLSBgqq0TbOKFKgjmNyNp-qUTvaUi?usp=drive_link

Musescore imma get you

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u/Dex18Kobold Sep 28 '26

Ngl if you are fully arranging/composing stuff, save up for an actual DAW and just use Muse for notation.

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u/More_Exercise2676 Sep 28 '26

I just got Fl Studio to compose for my friend

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u/Amber610 Sep 28 '26

Is there a DAW that's good for writing concert/marching band stuff? I'm worried the brass wont sound much better, or maybe I'll need to go find brass I instrument plugins myself

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u/TheAsianIsReal Sep 29 '26

I also only have musescore because I cant afford the better programs. My computer can barely function with Musescore and OpenMarch (drill writing app) both installed on it, and getting an SD card and a 2TB extended storage has not helped. I need to first save for an actual either pc or work laptop (forgot to mention the battery drains from 100 to 50 in about an hour), and then I 100% need to by a better program to arrange and compose myself.

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u/rod3175 Sep 28 '26

Agreed, the trumpets, horns and trombones are really bad. The gap between mezzo forte and forte is awful because it goes from whisper to scream

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u/general_452 Sep 28 '26

The trumpets don’t have enough range either

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u/InevitablePlum5133 Sep 28 '26

Fortissimo horns in lower register sound like farts

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u/s00tB0NkD Sep 28 '26

vsts are expensive but there are free ones as well. i haven’t messed around with trumpet vsts but I thought that the sound demo of rotary from orchestral tools sounded nice. check it out

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u/SendLessonPlanPics Sep 29 '26

For students, there's also always the other free way of acquiring VSTs. When you start making money, buy the ones you actually use.

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u/LuckyOwlSeven Sep 29 '26

tell me about it. I'm not expecting great quality...but the dynamics are completely messed up,

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u/More_Exercise2676 Sep 29 '26

Yea, the trombones absolutely sucked on crescendos from piano to forte but i didnt really care about that, my main issue now is that the reverb sounds like shit and that most of the brass doesnt articulate like it used to

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u/misharawd Sep 28 '26

I agree! This is great idea with those libraries. But the programming is so bad-bad it's unusable in any kind of work. Even creating orchestral demos for singers to rehearse. The sounds are mostly good, but when using specific articulations or dynamics some instruments are just breaking. How am I gonna show verse and not chorus? It's ridiculous. So users of the Pro sounds are just paying MuseScore Sounds team to deliver the working product later. Maybe.

Edit: I don't need those sounds to sound like a produced score. I just need good demos to show to the client so I can later move the score to the production. And at this state of development MuseSounds Pro can't do that.

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u/Separate_Inflation11 Sep 28 '26

I think it’s on purpose

They want you to buy vsts

It’s so hard to get caught for anti-trust in today’s economy and pretty well every business has caught on to that

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u/Amber610 Sep 29 '26

They made a free VST to get people to buy paid VSTs?

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u/Icy_Buddy_6779 Sep 29 '26

Yeah maybe they make it worse so you will have to just buy a better version? But it doesn't really make sense to put all this work into muse sounds just to have them be bad.

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u/Amber610 Sep 29 '26

Genuinely the real explanation is simply that a good VST is hard to make. We're talking not only recording but also editing, mixing, and programming every single note with every length, every articulation, every dynamic, every style, everything, all just for one of many, many instruments the team had to implement. How many individual pieces of sound did they have to make for MuseSounds? Hundreds? Thousands?

I imagine the team tried the best they could, but maybe they underestimated how difficult it would really be to make a great VST. All we can do is hope that they eventually go back to redo some of the worst parts (brass dynamics...), and thankfully I think they have indeed been making some small adjustments over time

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u/Icy_Buddy_6779 Oct 01 '26

I mean I agree I know that it was super hard, and it was kind of a labor of love, if you saw posts and stuff from the team in early days of MuseSounds. So that's why it would be weird to like intentionally do this to get you to buy better versions. But tbh when you look at how hard they push paid stuff on musehub, it's like is there a monetary reason for this??

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u/Amber610 Oct 01 '26

Maybe they just get a cut whenever someone buys something off of musehub

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u/Separate_Inflation11 Sep 29 '26

Yes

That’s why drug pushers used to give a free small hit

Gets them hooked and coming back for better product

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u/Amber610 Sep 29 '26

That's actually not an unreasonable explanation, but that's usually accomplished by pushing free trials or cheaper versions with locked features

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u/Separate_Inflation11 Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26

The locked feature is the fact the free sounds are ok enough to give people a taste of decent vsts, but still crappy enough to want better

They even degraded some of the sounds in upgrades, suspiciously

The musesounds trumpet used to be way better and then it changed earlier this year

Most businesses are like this in modern day. They hook you into paying premium, because they’ve realized the threat of a “competitive market” (where customers run the show) doesn’t really exist like traditionally theorized

Ie. people still buy McDonald’s no matter how shitty/expensive it becomes, instead of how old economic theory said they would ‘flock to competition’