MuseScore 4 — VST Support, Kontakt, Indigenus sound libraries
I've not used VST libraries recently, and I'm not particularly familiar with the required setup of VST configuration, so I'm hoping to benefit from the experience of others before moving ahead.
Anyone know if MuseScore 4.01 can use playing libraries from Indigenous.com ... or libraries with the same/similar requirements? My understanding is that a full version of Kontakt is required. So I guess the core question is if Kontakt and MuseScore 4 work well together.
I'd like to try some of my arrangements and transcriptions with the steel string guitar, nylon string guitar and resophonic guitar and the ukulele from Indigenous.
Thanks!
scorster
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All I know is: It has to be VST3. VST2, which lot of the free stuff is still based on, is not supported.
If Kontakt can run within MuseScore 4 then our libraries should work. You can test this with our free instruments:
https://www.indiginus.com/freebees.
As mentioned before, our libraries do require the full version of Kontakt.
-TC
In reply to If Kontakt can run within… by tcindiginus
Thanks Tracy!
I'll continue to look into using Indigenous libraries with MuseScore 4.
Please update us if you test Kontakt and your libraries with MuseScore 4 on MacOS and Windows.
Much appreciated!
scorster
The following posts are by MuseScore 4 users working with Kontakt:
https://musescore.org/en/node/344013
https://musescore.org/en/node/338246
https://musescore.org/en/node/342434
And here are citations in the MuseScore 4 Handbook:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/working-vst-and-vsti
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/mixer#audiofx
I'm hoping a couple of people will chime in with some MuseScore4/Kontakt success stories!
scorster
In reply to The following posts are from… by scorster
It's four months later now ... and two days ago I got Kontakt 7 at their 50% off sale.
Yesterday I got Kontakt 7 working in Logic.
Today I opened Kontakt 7 in MuseScore 4.02. Worked perfectly ... with a couple of minor issues:
1) it takes about 7 second to open the plugin
2) anytime I leave the score the Kontakt plugin window closes
3) I don't see a way to have the Kontakt plugin open but behind the score window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YJDK77VId8
MacOS Ventura 13.3.1a
Macbook Air M2, 24GB RAM, 2TB SSD
Glad to see this working. I'll also test to see if I can access 3rd party libraries ... and my first choice will be those from http://indiginus.com
Otherwise I'm back to MuseScore 3.7.
scorster
In reply to It's four months later now … by scorster
Thank you very much for your informative messages. So basically I can make the scores sound without a keyboard, controlling everything with Musescore