Has anybody tried MUZE instruments? Great deal going on them. Little info on internet!

[scatman84]

Hello,

Has anyone tried MUZE instruments? There seems to be an insane deal going on. (On APD)
MUZE Everything - pianos, strings, brass, pads, bass, drums, effects, etc

Wanted to know if anyone here has tried any of their stuff? Not much to find out about them on the internet. Not many Youtube videos either. Wondering what's the deal? Is it too good to be true?

I don't wanna spend $79 on it only to find some catch later!

Please share your experience with instruments (if you have any)

[Nug Wrangler]

Never heard of them. Seems legit imo if that is what worries you.

[HAL76]

Quality is subjective.

Sonex = Qataz = Muze

You can expect ridiculously low prices and in so far won´t do wrong.

[core]

A quick glance here https://rekkerd.org/tag/muze/ and you'll see Muze products are often available at huge discounts. Probably not bad value for money, but the "regular" price of its products is surely inflated.

[wherethehellwasi]

There's some fairly reasoned discussion of Muze and their libraries in this VI-C thread from last year:

https://vi-control.net/community/thread ... re.124426/

[ralfrobert]

Better avoid. Many gigabytes of material that will not make you happy. Better get Labs and libraries for Decent Sampler for free if you are on a tight budget. Many quality libraries there.

[scatman84]

There's some fairly reasoned discussion of Muze and their libraries in this VI-C thread from last year:

https://vi-control.net/community/thread ... re.124426/

Thank you very much, that helped a lot.

[scatman84]

Better avoid. Many gigabytes of material that will not make you happy. Better get Labs and libraries for Decent Sampler for free if you are on a tight budget. Many quality libraries there.

Thanks for your suggestion. Noted.

[scatman84]

Quality is subjective.

Sonex = Qataz = Muze

You can expect ridiculously low prices and in so far won´t do wrong.

Now I know what you mean by those different names. Thanks.

[mrdelurk]

I'm just going through the whole set, after buying the "everything" deal (46 Kontakt libraries for a ridiculously low price). So far played through the first 5.
My impression of Muze is that this is someone independently wealthy who does Kontakt libraries as a labor of love. Someone who could afford a computer with a jillion Gigs of RAM back in 2020. Who can also afford to prectically give the libraries away. Yeah, I could imagine that they actually plunked down the big bucks to have a real Steinway Grand, etc. recorded somewhere.
The sounds? I am finding some good ones. I really like the Dione piano for one, I'm belnding it with my Ableton Studio's own grand multisample to give the latter some much needed modern edge. In Aquamarine, my facorite patch is #7, Caribbean. And on. There's definitely some neat stuff in here, and I'm using this on a ten year old laptop with just 8 Gigs of RAM and an ancient 32-bit Ableton, because I'm independently unwealthy. So far nothing blew up.

If it came to it, I'd have paid the Everything Deal's price just for that snazzy Dione piano alone, so it's like, whatever else I discover from now on in the other 40+ sets will be just extra cream on top.
The only thing I never figured out is how on Muze Drums the "XR7" drum player is supposed to work. I load a preset, say, EDM 01, hit Play on XR7, nothing happens. I hold C3, the kick starts to repeat, but the other keys don't work the same way for the other sounds. As long as I hold C3, I can hit and release random keys and random things happen, but what's the logic to it, the frigg knows. The manual says zip about this, so good luck figuring out. But the sounds are good.