MuseScore is a free to use music notation program. It comes with quite a number of free high-quality sounds, taken from their commercial StaffPad program:
  • Choir
  • Strings
  • Woodwinds
  • Brass
  • Percussion
  • Keys
  • Harp
  • Guitars


In the latest release of MuseHub, there's now an option to create an account and purchase instruments. These instruments come from other commercial libraries (Orchestral Tools, Spitfirst Audio, Cinesamples).

The instruments are much smaller than the full versions, with limited articulations, and only offer a single microphone position. And MuseScore is purely a notation program, so you won't be able to play any of these instruments live.

On the plus side, they are much cheaper than the full versions and are integrated into the MuseScore notation. At the moment, many are on sale, up to 67% off. That makes most of them less than $10 each. I've heard a number of demos, and they sound pretty good.

Orchestral Tools
  • Berlin Woodwinds
  • First Chairs
  • Berlin Strings
  • Berlin Brass
  • Berlin Soloists
  • Berlin Percussion
  • Berlin Pianos
  • Berlin Harps


Spitfire Audio
  • Symphony Woodwinds
  • Symphony Percussion
  • Symphony Brass
  • Symphony Strings
  • Harpsichord
  • Chamber Strings
  • Union Chapel Organ
  • Felt Piano


Cinesamples
  • CineWinds
  • CineStrings Solo
  • CineStrings
  • CineBrass
  • VOXOS Epic Choir
  • Tina Gua Acoustic Cello
  • Taylor Davis Violin
  • CinePerc
  • CinePiano
  • CineHarps


So if you've ever thought I'd love to have some orchestral libraries so I could use them in a notation program, now's your chance. wink

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?