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Muse Strings

Muse Strings is a free, world-class collection of solo and ensemble strings, featuring both a rich symphonic section and an intimate string quartet. Performed by top-tier session players and recorded with stunning clarity, each instrument is tailored for expressive, seamless playback in MuseScore Studio.

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Muse Strings

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What’s New?

0.4.25

- Glissando and Portamento improvements for Classic Phrasing - Fixes to Violas and Contrabasses portamento

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

Reviews

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September 11, 2025

0.4.25

The dynamics are quite bad, instruments don't go as loud and also quite glitchy with headphones

September 10, 2025

0.4.25

The sound was so amazing that I was surprised at its beauty when I first heard it.Even though it took me about a day to download it and it often failed ,all my waiting paid off.

September 10, 2025

0.4.25

Add Contrabass solo, Sounds horrible, combine muse sound and musecore gm sounds

August 30, 2025

0.4.25

What happened ? The new dynamics are so weird, it feels awful

August 22, 2025

0.4.25

The new strings sounds are very different, and they are ABSOLUTELY terrible. The phrasing and legato is off, and they sounds more synthetic than human. The strings aren't as realistic, tremolo is stiff and too extreme. Much of the score annotation doesn't have the same effect, and everything sounds like a synth and not the astonishingly good sounds of the earlier version.

August 16, 2025

0.4.25

Surprisingly great legatos. Paired with the string EQ and Lush High End setting on the Mastering plugin, you can get some really gorgeous string playback for free. I actually stopped using my more expensive libraries for string legato in favour of this! The pizz, trem, and staccato patches are less impressive, but still helpful for mockups. Those legatos though are usable for realistic work.

Updated - August 13, 2025

0.4.25

pizzicato sucks everything else is good

August 11, 2025

0.4.25

Updated - August 14, 2025

0.4.25

I noticed that the cello notes sometimes don’t give playback for classic phrasing. Also, why hasn’t anyone added a solo contrabass yet?

August 8, 2025

Generally good. However, when we switch to PP mode, there is some audible noise. Also, Glisando is terrible. Don't even try it. If these two issues were fixed, there would be no problem.

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