The DAW tracks top to bottom will correspond to your MuseScore channels, in the same order. Load your tracks in your DAW and set up whatever VST instruments you want for your tracks. Options->Preferences->Audio->MIDI Devices, be sure to toggle on (disabled to enabled) the midi device loopMIDI. Edit->Preferences->I/O, set the Audio output device to ASIO4ALL if not already done, and set the MIDI output to loopMIDI. Feel at liberty to use, reuse, and share the short four-bars composition. Here is the Musescore (version 3) composition file used for the screenshots in this guide. The channels in MuseScore will correspond to the tracks (top to bottom in the DAW). Now you can input notes into MuseScore unless you already have a composition loaded in MuseScore (in fact, once you complete the pairing of MuseScore with your DAW, you will hear your DAW's instrument notes as you add/edit notes in MuseScore). Now for each instrument or stave in MuseScore, look at the Mixer (F10) and make sure your instrument staves (tracks) use channel 1 for the top instrument stave, channel 2 for the second stave, channel 3 for the third stave, and so on. Set up a simple score with perhaps 3 staves (instruments), it really does not matter what you call them or what instruments they are because you will not be using MuseScore's soundfonts (synthesized instruments), but you can match MuseScore instrument sounds with those you set up in your DAW if you wish, just for clarity. In Reaper you do this in Options->Preferences->Audio->Device->ASIO Driver. In MuseScore you can do this in Edit->Preferences->I/O. Then be sure to set you audio device in both MuseScore and your DAW (Reaper, etc) to ASIO4ALL. STEP 3: Probably best to reboot your computer after installing both loopMIDI and ASIO4ALL. This tutorial how-to will make use of ASIO4ALL which is completely free. STEP 2: Download and install ASIO4ALL, unless you already have some other sound driver that works. STEP 1: Download and install loopMIDI, a free virtual midi port. Also be sure to set the midi channel for each LABS instrument to 1,2,3 and so on to match the MuseScore instrument channel. One warning- if you use Spitfireaudio’s LABS instruments (high quality, free), note that if you pause playback they will continue to sound and the only way to stop them is to temporarily toggle off their track(s) record monitoring. If you already own a DAW, you probably already have your own selection of VST sample libraries that you use regularly. There are many other free sample libraries available on the internet. Native Instruments also has a completely free ‘KOMPLETE Start’ set of instrument sample libraries (VSTs) as well as a free KONTAKT VST player. Reaper as a DAW is very affordable and includes a 60 day evaluation license if you want to give this a try without any extra financial commitment. In this guide, Reaper will be used for the DAW though just about any DAW should be able to do this following the same basic steps. It is assumed the reader of this guide already has a good working knowledge of using their DAW, including how to install, load, and configure VST instruments, and how to set up multiple tracks in a DAW. This guide is not a guide to using a DAW. In the end, you might decide the best way to use MuseScore is simply to use MuseScore’s soundfonts, its default set of built in synthetic instrument sounds. Finalize, expect this method to be a little buggy, perhaps a little difficult for some, but if you want to give this a try here is a guide that can work. This guide is not about exporting a MuseScore composition to midi or XML and then importing that into a DAW, rather this guide is about composing in MuseScore in real-time, and playing back a MuseScore composition or part of a composition in real-time using the much more realistic sounds that a DAW can utilize. This allows for real time MuseScore composition and playback using more realistic sounding instruments. MuseScore has the ability to connect in real time to a digital audio workstation (DAW) and associated high quality instrument sample libraries (sometimes known as VSTs). This guide is meant for MuseScore users who already compose and produce music using a DAW, and who might want to experiment with connecting MuseScore to their DAW. If you do not already know how to use a digital audio workstation or DAW, this How-To guide is not for you.
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