Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings: The finest soloists in Japan now in your DAW.

World-class string soloists, featuring industry-leading legato and unparalleled workflow.

Impact Soundworks is beyond thrilled to announce the RELEASE of Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings!

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Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings is a collection of five solo string instruments played by some of Japan's finest musicians, all hailing from the same Koichiro Muroya Strings ensemble that recorded our acclaimed Tokyo Scoring Strings library. It features Koichiro Muroya himself playing violin 1, violin 2, and viola, as well as two of his handpicked section leaders on cello (Masami Horisawa) and contrabass (Jun Saito) whose collective credits extend across hundreds of projects.

Recorded in the same space (Studio City) and by the same legendary engineer (Mitsunori Aizawa) as our ensemble library, TSSS is excellent as first-chair performers, featured soloists, or to write for string quartet or quintet. Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings is the perfect companion to Tokyo Scoring Strings, but it’s just as effective and inspiring when used as a standalone library.

We spent a truly exhaustive amount of time carefully editing, fine-tuning, and finessing these samples both in and outside of Kontakt to deliver the best possible performances and expression and we could not be prouder of the result.

KEY FEATURES

Choose from 2 hand-sculpted mic mixes or make your own

Select from the hand-sculpted Anima Mix (our in-house board mix, comparable to the TSS2.0 mix of the same name), crisp Close Pair, or Mic Mixer (build your own with the provided mic signals: Close Pair, Surround, Side, and Back). Studio City is a large studio, but with a fairly tame reverb tail, making it extremely flexible for all kinds of mixing and additional reverb processing.

Four beautiful mic positions

Via the Mic Mixer patches, you can use the built in mixing Console to blend between Close Pair, Surround, Side, and Back positions, each offering their own distinct tone and flavor. These were recorded with the finest mics in existence, such as Neumann U87s and U67s, Telefunken U47s, RCA 77-DX, and AEA N8s among others.

All crucial playing techniques

All five instruments feature: sustains, pizzicato, staccato, staccatissimo, spiccato, tremolo, trills (whole-tone, half-tone), long & short decrescendo and sforzando. They also have the same four sustain release types: natural, excited, staccato note, and descrescendo, all carefully volume-matched to blend flawlessly with the origin sustain.

Expressive, seamless dynamics and vibrato

Up to five dynamics per articulation (pp, mp, mf, f, ff) and beautiful, natural vibrato. Move between dynamics 100% seamlessly with no phasing or doubling effects!

Industry-leading legato

Three distinctive legato types: Legato Bow and Legato Slur (2x round robins each), and powerful Marcato Legato incorporating adjustable bow attack. Two portamento types: Portamento Lyrical and Portamento Slur.

Three playback modes: Standard, Zero Latency, Lookahead

As with TSS, you can play the library in a natural, expressive way with beautiful transitions in real-time using Standard mode, which works like most other string libraries. Zero Latency mode adjusts the samples so that you get an instant response on key press: less realistic, but good for quick sketching and keyboard-style playing.

Finally, our crown jewel Lookahead Mode allows you to write grid-quantized MIDI and play it back with spot-on timing, expression, and even articulation switching. It's truly the easiest and fastest way to get a lifelike performance with minimal tweaking.

Total articulation control technology

Map ANY articulation whatever way you'd like. Keyswitches (latching or non-latching), MIDI CC, velocities, key ranges, or ANY combination of the above. This is the same incredible mapping system as in TSS; for a deep dive on how it works, click here.

https://youtu.be/0HAVjy7IukA

DEMOS

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SPECTRAL FUSION-POWERED LEGATO

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.

PRICING & AVAILABILITY

Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings is available now for the list price of $249 (MSRP). Owners of Tokyo Scoring Strings full or essentials will find a $50 crossgrade in their Personalized Deals area, but if you don't own those you may still find a deal available if you own any of our other orchestral instruments!

TSSS runs in the free Kontakt Player 7.8 and is fully NKS compatible.

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