Even a 2007 MacBook Pro is good for this in 2024

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ppp to fff... what's the deal?

Even though we have lots of strings for free, they don’t cover all my needs, especially harmonics and col legno. For now it’s ok to start, but I really want to get something like areia lite in the future when I’m earning income from my music.

are the Saike plugins compatible with other DAWs?

Your music sounds great! Thanks for the advice

I know this video post is older, but my comment is for those curious of NotePerformer who is not yet convinced. Follow the link here and discover the magic of NotePerformer. I cannot recall any VST sounding like a recording like this. The music in the linked video was produced by Dorico 5.1 Pro driving NotePerformer 4.5.0. (NO affiliation) The music performance can still be tweaked using Dorico's MIDI lanes, but the listener will definitely hear how NotePerformer is not this 'in-between', medium quality VST as some claims. NotePerformer has a lot of power, if one knows how to use its magic! 🙂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5ergmiQgpl1l6c

You need to redo this video and use your mod wheel. On sustains you are only using one dynamic layer which is not how a player sounds. Thanks!

What is the DAW?

These are amazing dude, you gotta make more videos about jsfx, it's one of the most underrated aspect of reaper. Tukan plugins are the new best.

Seems you're playing everything fortissimo - fff. Could you let us hear what it sounds like when the modulation wheel is brought into play?

Your sins are forgiven

09:27 The library doesn't have legato... otherwise it is amazing!

Edirol is still the best of any of these. It's like 15 years old but I'm sick of all these libraries that take up an entire HDD. It's what a looooot of the anime composers still use. Some guy in African pop music got me on it since I couldn't figure one of the sounds, it's still widely used in commercial pop music there. He pulled back the curtain lol.

I'm still using a mackook air 11 inch (yes, 11 inch and 4GB RAM) with Logic Pro and it's still fine for my use.

Still using one of these for recording heavy rock/metal sessions in Logic (although admittedly we're doing mixing/mastering elsewhere), purely because it still works just fine

The difference is Musescore allows you to write music for other people to recreate, where as with a DAW that's not a goal.

What digital piano do you use?

Marking a note staccato in a score (hotkey) is 100x easier and quicker than doing it in a DAW (keyswitch, and back, or switching to another MIDI channel in your template). And it means you can try out different articulations painlessly, and all the notes for the instrument remain in the same part.

Whether by DAW or sheet music composition software, I soundly approve of the purpose of the composition depicted in this video.

I only realized you can make this from almost any synth, I've got Diva sounding orchestral lately which was fun

So many great free instruments lately by fracture sounds and many others.

Thanks for this! This is really awesome

Great list Eoin. I wanna know, how did you download VSCO2? I’ve been to their website so many times, no download link to be found anywhere

Have you checked out the Tukan Studios ones?

Oh 100%. MuseSounds were basically taken from David William Hearn’s sessions he’d intended to create a bespoke Staffpad library for but when Ultimately GTR (MuseScore) acquired Staffpad, these sounds were ported over to it. They work very well especially in the legatos where the note transitions are excellent by and large. Dynamics in the brass are limited but I can’t see BBCsO discovery being better in this regard.

Honestly I just wanna switch daws for midi and this would be perfect since im so used to audacity

There are red notes in the viola part, that means it’s not possible to play those on the instrument.

Musehub is sounding pretty good, and I don’t need to program keyswitches.

Great to see someone else reviewing this .. I think it's the weakest subscription offering on the market, as you said, you can get just as good or better plugins for free in almost all cases , Reaper exists, and it just smacks of a slapped together offering to try to gouge money from consumers . Also, the decision to only allow 10 nominated plugins for use is terrible.

So cruel of you to be using that lens 😢 just because it looks cool doesn't mean you should be taking fishes eyes from them

Studio 8-Track has shown that Sony missed an excellent opportunity at the launch of the PlayStation 5 to call it the PlayStation 5 games.

Why is musescore seen as the "less accessible" software? The only DAW that has an interface that is genuinely intuitive and doesn't look like an early 2000s website that I know of is Logic. They both have their shortcomings in terms of accessibility and I would argue that musescore is much more accessible.

Anything that works well with Reaper?

what about the difference in filesizes though? (~320Mb for BBC Symphony against MuseSounds' +15GB)

i wish musesounds could be incorperated in DAWS so i can get best of both worlds

bruh omg musecore is ridicously good, i gotta check it out, tthanks for this video

need an extended version of song 3!!

You really disadvantaged Musescore, you wrote notes on the violas that they can't play. You didn't even write anything for the tam-tam... But anyways, it is a great video, and great comparison. Musescore won hands down haha

Is there any Shure SM58 left in the world that isn't dented?

Musescore 4 sounds better than a lot of my expensive libraries, spitfire ain't got no chance

There are plenty of Dynamic Markings haha, Not just 6 or 7, Trust me. You could even get 5 f's But thats rare. In Fact Sheet Music Allows for More Dynamic Volumes typically

Ah, I love seeing more M01D creators! It's hard to find many other people using the software except for Anthony Seeha, who's been using it for a long time.

Good old supersunny electronic Belgian wilderness😝Thanks for letting us peek into it!

Can you give me a link to that cimbalom sample?

Musescore 4.0 has a very capable soundfont that is, unfortunately, baked into the program. What you hear is what you get, which may be appropriate for focusing solely on bread-and-butter orchestration instead of producing music from beginning to end. Volume automation is indeed one of the program's Achille's heels, but there is another that I've encountered: no true tremolo on the strings. While it should be covering all the bases for "bread and butter" orchestration, the lack of tremolo strings is quite a significant gap in the armor plating. It is a pity that the tremolo is either non-existent or a tempo-based effect instead of a nurtured soundfont source. For the primary purpose of the program, this can be overlooked. However, if Musescore 4 is your only option, then you still have it great! Focusing on what it CAN do will yield great results if your imagination remains in a state of optimism. Personally, I'm a bit spoiled since I'm stuck in the DAW paradigm and even had articulations (such as tremolo) over a decade ago when I had the free "squidfont" orchestral sounds. That being said, I wish that I could snag some the sounds in Musescore 4 and use them within my DAW of choice, but because the soundfonts are truly baked into the program, we're at an impasse (I like the brass sounds in Musescore better than the UVI-Orchestral Suite, for instance).

DAWs came a really long way to what they are now... Good video! :)

As someone who's composed using both approaches, I appreciate the level of control you can get with DAWs and VST instruments (which is helpful if the audio itself is the final product, and can also be useful for individual tracks that you can composite over the sound from MuseScore), but I find composing in notation to be far more efficient because you get results without needing to worry about adding in keyswitches or dealing with MIDI clips or tracks. Plus, I am a violist in a community orchestra and tend to write with actual orchestra musicians in mind.

7:16 crazy? I was crazy once...

Holy shit! Did you hear that the latest version of Reaper came out last week!