Musescore 4 does not properly detect VST3s

• Mar 18, 2025 - 13:06

Using latest version of musescore, 4.5

Musescore is incapable of detecting every VST3 or VST3i I have, and there is also no way in the settings to search specific file locations for VSTs I own. This means some of the VST3s I use are not possible to use in musescore even though by all accounts they should be.

As an example, I own Vienna imperial from the vsco series VI. (Bosendorfer piano) which is a VST3i. It is for some reason, not detectable by musecore in the latest update.

Unfortunately, the way musescore detects VSTs is inconsistent and often does not work, and the only reasonable way to fix this as a guarantee is to include an option to manually add a VST, which is an option in virtually every other music software I've worked with that has VST support. Please consider adding this option in a near future update in order to fix the current bugs that exist with its detection of VST3s in the current update.

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