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In a crowded field of string libraries, Tokyo Scoring Strings stands out for its unique sound, extraordinary lookahead technology, and remarkably easy-to-use workflow.

In creating Tokyo Scoring Strings, we wanted it to be fun, inspiring, and easy to use, while still powerful enough to create truly realistic, lifelike performances. We’ve gone to great lengths to polish and perfect our legato so that it sounds perfectly natural and real, whether you’re writing expressive or rapid passages.

 

The Essentials Version of Tokyo Scoring Strings gives you incredible fine-grained control, as well as extraordinary levels of detail and the ability to mock up an even wider range of performances due to expanded articulations.

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In creating Tokyo Scoring Strings, we wanted it to be fun, inspiring, and easy to use, while still powerful enough to create truly realistic, lifelike performances. We’ve gone to great lengths to polish and perfect our legato so that it sounds perfectly natural and real, whether you’re writing expressive or rapid passages.

 

 

Tokyo Scoring Strings Essentials gives you a generous selection of articulations, including everything you need to write professional, score-ready orchestral compositions. It also comes with three hand-sculpted microphone mixes:

• Board Mix: An upfront mix by Mitsunori Aizawa, using his hardware setup at Sound City.
• Anima Mix: A light and airy mix most suited to agile and intricate writing.
• Cinema Mix: A dark, smooth mix suitable for cinematic scoring and low string chorales.

For even more articulations and greater control over individual microphones, look at Tokyo Scoring Strings Complete.

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What exactly is Lookahead? It’s the ideal solution to make programming parts in MIDI as realistic and easy as possible. Lookahead 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. What makes it so distinctive? Smaller ensembles recorded in focused studio spaces lend themselves to more agile playing, and a focus on perfection leads to incredible accuracy. These strengths make Japanese ensembles equally capable of 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 now.

Our goal with Tokyo Scoring Strings is to give you the orchestral string sound featured in so many world-famous Japanese productions. This project has been a dream come true for all of us at Impact Soundworks, and we’re thrilled to have worked with some of our musical heroes to bring it to life.

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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 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 CSS, 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 Strings.

 

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The updated and improved Tokyo Scoring Strings 2.0 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 Strings Essentials includes a total of five distinct legato types along with four independent speed profiles which allow stunning and consistent performances at all dynamics and tempos.

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Purchasing Tokyo Scoring Strings Essentials will qualify you for a discount if you later decide to upgrade to Tokyo Scoring Strings Complete.

View the Tokyo Scoring Strings comparison chart to see what is available in each edition!

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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 Strings a tighter, more focused sound that lends itself extremely well to more agile playing and mixing with external reverb.
• Renowned anime & 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 Strings Essentials features five independently recorded sections (Violins 1, Violins 2, Viola, Cello, Bass), as well as an Ensemble Patch, in a typical Japanese ensemble size (8/6/4/4/3) suitable for small and large productions alike.

Tokyo Studio Strings Essentials 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 smaller Japanese string sections. You’ll be able to easily write and mock-up sweeping melodies, intimate legato, and aggressive agile passages.

Articulations

• Arco (Sustain) – 5 dynamics, 3 vibrato levels (senza, con, molto)
• Bowed Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Slurred Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Marcato Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Bowed Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Slurred Legato – 3 dynamics, 2x rr
• Rebow – 3 dynamics, 5x rr
• Staccato – 5 dynamics, 6x rr
• Staccatissimo – 5 dynamics, 6x rr
• Spiccato – 4 dynamics, 6x rr
• Pizzicato – 3 dynamics, 4x rr
• Tremolo – 4 dynamics
• Releases – Natural

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A beautiful new version of our Console modular FX rack and mixer is included with the updated Tokyo Scoring Strings 2.0. 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 Strings entirely in Console without using a single external plugin!

Download the Console manual here to learn more!