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Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings is a true work of art, from the precisely perfect performances, to the programming and processing that brought it to life through excruciatingly detailed hand-edited work and brilliant technical magic.

The resulting library builds upon the extraordinary lookahead technology and remarkably easy-to-use workflow of Tokyo Scoring Strings and takes its unique sound even further.

 

 

All this effort on our part translates to remarkable ease for you. Sit down to write even complex music and you will find that “it just works” — no need to worry about sample delay or combining articulations manually. Our engine intuits what you’re writing and decides how to play just as a live musician would, resulting in truly realistic, lifelike performances. Of course, you can always interrupt and take greater control at any moment you wish.

Both rapid and expressive passages come to believable life thanks to natural-sounding legato, a mind-reading engine, great care during development, and the masterful playing of Koichiro Muroya and his chosen soloists.

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Choose from the following three mic patches per instrument:

• Anima Mix: Our own quintet-style mix derived from the four included microphone positions, similar to the Anima Mix in Tokyo Scoring Strings.
• Close Pair: A stereo pair of close mics for a very dry, upfront sound.
• Mic Mixer: Design your own mix from four individual mic positions.

In a future update, we plan to add mic mixes created by Mitsunori Aizawa himself, using his hardware setup at Sound City.

Individual mic signals in the Mic Mixer patch:

• Close Pair: A stereo pair of close mics that can be used for adding more crisp detail.
• Surround: Mics placed at the front of the stage, pointing backward, to pick up the full surround sound.
• Side: Mics placed at the far left and far right, providing a wider stereo image than the Surround.
• Back: Mics placed at the back of the stage.

 

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Lookahead is the ideal solution to make programming parts in MIDI as realistic and easy as possible. This engine mode, available with a single click, allows you to work directly on the grid with consistent delay for all articulations and legato speeds, and polyphonic legato that works perfectly with no additional effort on your part.

For the ultimate in realism and saving time, you can even choose the optional Easy Artic mode, which selects articulations polyphonically without needing to use keyswitches.

 

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The sound of Japanese strings is both captivating and highly unique. In a solo or small ensemble context, the focused studio space lends itself to more agile playing, and a cultural focus on perfection leads to incredible accuracy. These strengths make Japanese performers excel at both delicate nuance and sweeping emotional performances that move listeners to tears. For many of us who have admired Japanese soundtracks for years, this sound has long been a source of inspiration, but it’s been out of reach for most composers outside of Japan until the arrival of the Tokyo Scoring series.

Our goal with the Tokyo Scoring series is to give you the orchestral string sound featured in so many world-famous Japanese productions. As with Tokyo Scoring Strings, this solo library features performers from Koichiro Muroya Strings, the ensemble heard on many world-renowned soundtracks. Muroya-san himself lends his brilliance to Violins I and II as well as Viola; Cello and Contrabass are performed by section leaders.

 

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Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings features stunningly realistic, consistent, and smooth legato created using our in-house developed Spectral Fusion System. Using proprietary DSP software, editing, and programming techniques, all 60,000+ legato samples have been carefully balanced and matched to all combinations of source and destination notes, including the associated recorded dynamics.

Normally, this processing would be impossible to achieve through any manual process due to the sheer number of samples involved. That’s why legato recording, editing, and programming is by far the most time-consuming part of creating realistic sample libraries, and why results often come up short — lumpy transitions, rapidly-changing timbre from source to destination, a “sucking” effect that makes the recording space sound suddenly lifeless, and more.

The unprecedented, library-wide balance from the Spectral Fusion System does not compromise the versatility or range of legato either; Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings includes a total of three distinct legato and two portamento types along with four independent speed profiles which allow stunning and consistent performances at all dynamics and tempos.

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Writing music is a deeply personal act of creation, and your workflow preferences are just as unique. Our TACT system allows you to personalize how you use Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings to suit how you work best, regardless of which DAW you prefer or whether you use a MIDI controller or not. Do you rely on keyswitches, stick to MIDI CCs, set everything by velocity, or use a combination of all three?

If you can dream up the perfect articulation mapping, you can make it real in Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings.

 

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If you already own Tokyo Scoring Strings Complete or Tokyo Scoring Strings Essentials, you automatically qualify for a crossgrade discount on Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings. Log in and check your Personalized Deals for more information.

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We are honored to have partnered with an incredible team of musicians and collaborators in Japan:

• Koichiro Muroya Strings, led by Koichiro Muroya. The most in-demand session ensemble in all of Japan. Their exquisite playing can be heard on many of your favorite soundtracks.
• Mitsunori Aizawa, Japan’s top engineer, responsible for mixing and recording hundreds of world-famous scores.
• Sound City, an incredible recording space with over 60 years of history. This choice of studio gives Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings a tighter, more focused sound that lends itself extremely well to more agile playing and mixing with external reverb.
• Renowned anime and film composer Masaru Yokoyama, who brought his experience recording scores around the world through his companies Plugnote and MiracleBus.
• Crypton Future Media and SonicWire, our Japanese distributors who have helped with the project from the very beginning.

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Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings features five independently recorded performers (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Contrabass), suitable as first-chair musicians, featured soloists, or a string quartet or quintet.

Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings includes a well-rounded set of articulations recorded in superb detail. We have paid particular attention to delivering outstanding legato as well as the agility and crisp short notes that are such a strength of Japanese string performers. You’ll be able to easily write and mock-up sweeping melodies, intimate legato, and aggressive agile passages.

Articulations

• Arco (Sustain) – 5 dynamics, 2 vibrato levels (senza, molto)
• Bowed Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Marcato Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Slurred Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Lyrical Portamento – 3 dynamics
• Slurred Portamento – 3 dynamics
• Rebow – 3 dynamics, 5x rr
• Staccato – 4 dynamics, 6x rr
• Staccatissimo – 4 dynamics, 6x rr
• Spiccato – 3 dynamics, 6x rr
• Sforzando – Dotted eighth & dotted quarter lengths, 3x rr
• Decrescendo – Dotted eighth & dotted quarter lengths, 3x rr
• Pizzicato – 3 dynamics, 4x rr
• Tremolo – 3 dynamics
• Trills – 3 dynamics, whole tone and half tone
• Releases – natural, excited, staccato, and decrescendo

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A beautiful version of our Console modular FX rack and mixer is included with Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings. Here, you can access over 40 different analog and digitally-modeled effects ranging from EQs, compressors, and limiters, to multiple flavors of reverbs and delays. You can sculpt and shape Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings entirely in Console without using a single external plugin!

Download the Console manual here to learn more!