Are you looking for the right instruments in Musio for your favorite music genre? Here’s a breakdown of Musio’s key instrument groups and the popular music genres those instruments are often used in, plus where to find them in Musio.
Keep in mind that the instruments in Musio are growing all the time. So even if something you’re looking for isn’t listed here, it might still be in Musio! We definitely suggest using the Search bar in Musio to quickly find what you need.
🎹 Grand Piano
The grand piano is a super versatile instrument and shows up across a wide range of genres like Pop, Rock, R&B/Soul, Jazz, Singer-Songwriter/Indie, Film Scores, and Gospel.
Try these in Musio:
- CinePiano
- Piano In Blue
- Session Piano - Grand
- Session Piano - Upright
- Colors - Half Piano
- Colors - Old Piano
- Colors - Toy Piano
- Randy Kerber - Prepared Piano
- Accent Pianos
🥁 Drum Kit
Drums are everywhere in popular music and they’re the rhythmic backbone of genres like Rock, Hip-Hop/Rap, EDM, Pop, Country, and Jazz.
Try these in Musio:
- CinePerc - Drum Kit
- Drums In Blue
- Sunset Drums
- Village Drums
🎛️ Synths
Synths are a huge part of modern production and appear in genres like Electronic/EDM, Pop, Synthpop/New Wave, Rock, Hip-Hop/Trap, R&B, and Cinematic music.
Try these in Musio:
- Collision Impact Designer
- Soundscapes
- TB-303
- Arp Quadra
- Jupiter 6
- Mono-Poly
- OBXa
- Oberheim 4
- Octave Cat
- PPG Wave 2
- Prophet 5
- Rhodes Chroma
- Synergy
- Vision - Modern Synths
🎸 Guitars
Guitars are essential in genres like Rock, Country, Indie, Pop, Blues, Gospel, and even Hip-Hop for atmospheric or melodic elements.
Try these in Musio:
- Studio Guitars - Nylon String
- Colors - Guitar (Les Paul) | Harmonics
- Colors - Guitar (Martin) | Harmonics
- Colors - Guitar (Taylor) | Harmonics
- Tonal Tickies - Guitar | Skewer
- Studio Basses
🎻 Strings
Strings add emotion, depth, and cinematic quality and are used in Film Scores, Pop, R&B, Gospel, Jazz, and Classical Crossover as well as many other genres.
Try these in Musio:
- Apocalyptica - Dark Cello
- Taylor Davis - Violin
- Tina Guo - Acoustic Cello
- Tina Guo - Electric Cello
- Tina Guo - Solo Cello
- CineStrings Core
- CineStrings Pro
- CineStrings Runs
- CineStrings Solo
- CineSymphony
- Hardanger Fiddle
- Orchestral Chords
- Quatre
- Viola Da Gamba
- CineHarps
🎷 Brass & Woodwinds
Used in genres like Jazz, Funk, Soul, Gospel, Film Scores, Classical, and sometimes Pop or Rock for dramatic or jazzy flair.
Try these in Musio:
- CineBrass - Core
- CineBrass - Deep Horns
- CineBrass - Descant Horn
- CineBrass - Low Brass
- CineBrass - Pro
- CineBrass - Sonore
- CineSymphony
- Industry Brass - Core
- Industry Brass - Pro
- Orchestral Chords
- Gina Luciani - Cinema Flutes
- CineWinds - Core
- CineWinds - Low Winds
- CineWinds - Pro
- Hollywoodwinds
🎤 Vocals & Choir
Whether you're creating Gospel, Film Scores, EDM, Pop, or Ambient music, vocals and choir textures add human warmth and emotional power.
Try these in Musio:
- Voces8
- Men Of The North
- Women Of The North
- Voxos
🥁 Percussion
Percussion is often used pitched or unpitched in Film Scores, World Music, Jazz, Rock, Epic, and Contemporary Classical genres.
Try these in Musio:
- CinePerc - Aux
- CinePerc - Epic
- CinePerc - Metal
- CinePerc - Orchestral
- CinePerc - Tonal
- CinePerc - Wood
- CinePerc - World
- Tonal Tickies
- Tongue Drum
- Drums of War 1
- Drums of War 2
- Drums of War 3
- Handbells
- Village Mallets
- Colors
- Kalimba
- Kalimba Experiment
- Toy Xylo
🌍 World Instruments
World instruments bring rich cultural flavors and unique textures to your music. Whether you're working on Film Scores, World Music, Ambient, New Age, Cinematic, or even adding global flair to Pop or Electronic tracks, these instruments can take your sound somewhere totally new.
Try these in Musio:
- African Marimba
- Ancient Bones
- Twisted Psaltry
- Dulcimer and Zither
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Scotland
- South Africa
🎼 Keyboard Instruments
Keyboard instruments offer a wide range of textures, from the classic church organ to the magical sound of a celeste. These instruments are often used in Gospel, Jazz, Classical, Film Scores, Pop, Rock, Soul, and even Hip-Hop for sampling or vintage vibes.
Try these in Musio:
- Randy Kerber - Celeste
- CineHarpsichord
- Forbes Pipe Organ
- Keyboard In Blue
- Mister Rogers’ Celeste
- Rhodes 73 EP
- Wurly Electric Piano
🥁 Drum Machines
Drum machines are essential tools for modern music production. They provide tight, punchy, often electronic-sounding rhythms and are widely used in Hip-Hop, Pop, EDM, Trap, Synthpop, Lo-Fi, and more. Whether you're making hard-hitting beats or vibey grooves, drum machines help you shape the exact rhythm and texture you're looking for with no mic'ing or real drum kits required!
Try these in Musio:
- LinnDrum
- TR-707
- TR-808
- TR-909
🔍 Final Tip
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