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Muse Strings

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.

Free

Muse Strings

Muse Group

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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July 22, 2025

0.4.25

July 22, 2025

0.4.25

It's free what can I say

July 18, 2025

0.4.23

Molto male veramente, è un glissando continuo. A sto punto mettete qualcosa di meglio nell'area gratis. Ma dai

July 15, 2025

0.4.23

The dynamics are extremely unbalanced (especially the violas) and the portamento feature all the strings have is gut-wrenchingly horrible. Please fix.

July 13, 2025

These strings have really good dynamic changes and work great for slow pieces or longer melodies. For fast pieces I learned that the staccato markings on 8th notes or 16th notes add a better support, and make it sound 10x better!!

July 12, 2025

0.4.23

In slow tempos, the legato playback doesn't work correctly. The transitions between notes sound disconnected or unnatural. Also there are issues with the balance. But the tone is great, so I hope it will be fixed

July 11, 2025

0.4.23

Again: free sounds, and much more decent ones than in the previous versions of Musescore! However, be aware that these strings will require tweeking in the mixer, and that nothing can be done to have them stop crissing and be expressive instead… That said, as long as it's free… NB: there are no "spiccato" options, as of now

June 14, 2025

0.4.23

It always says unable to download when trying to download it :(

June 3, 2025

0.4.23

For a free sound it's pretty good. Wouldn't pay for it.

May 27, 2025

I can hear some difference whatsoever, but the difference is so minimal that this is definitely not worth 5.5GB on your hard drive. Also add in solo contrabass

Works With
Rating: 64%
Version: 0.4.25
Install Size: 5.09 GB
Released: 2025