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美国厂商Impact Soundworks发布Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings


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Overview

An extraordinary collection of solo strings — violins, viola, cello, and contrabass — with the same groundbreaking legato, brilliant workflow, and agility and perfection as our flagship Tokyo Scoring Strings. 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.

Note: When you add Tokyo Scoring Solo Strings to your cart, the free Delay Compensator plugin will be automatically added as well. This is an essential plugin that can be used to easily sync your DAW with instruments that use Lookahead, such as TSSS.



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

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.


Product Info

Five exquisite string soloists
Violin I & II and Viola are all performed by Koichiro Muroya himself, the namesake leader of the ensemble. His hand-picked soloists feature on Cello (Masami Horisawa) and Contrabass (Jun Saito).

Recorded with world-class equipment
Virtuosic playing must be captured with the finest gear: Neumann U87s and U67s, Telefunken U47s, RCA 77-DX, and AEA N8s, along with NEVE, UREI, and Crane Song preamps.

Three detailed mic patches
Choose from the hand-sculpted Anima Mix, crisp Close Pair, or Mic Mixer (build your own with the provided mic signals: Close Pair, Surround, Side, and Back).

All crucial playing techniques
Sustains, pizzicato, staccato, staccatissimo, spiccato, tremolo, trills (whole-tone, half-tone), long & short decrescendo and sforzando.

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.


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.


Requirements

120GB disk space
An additional 120GB is required only during installation to store temporary files. Solid state drive recommended. Note that mic positions & mixes can be moved or deleted individually.

8GB of RAM minimum
16GB recommended for loading all sections with the anima mix. 32GB recommended for all sections with the All Mics patch.

Apple M2, Intel i5 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.

Kontakt Player 7.8.1+
This library will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.

Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 11 or later

Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)

Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 10 or higher. Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.



About the Library

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.


World-Class Studio Sound, Endless Mix Possibilities

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.

Lookahead: Revolutionize Your Workflow

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.

The Distinctive Sound of Japanese Strings

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.

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.

Total Articulation Control Technology (TACT)

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.

Tokyo Scoring Series Crossgrades

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.


Our Japanese Partners

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.



Articulations & Content

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

Console Modular FX Rack & Mixer

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!

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#2 25-10-24 22:33
官网演示曲有点灾难,第一首放出来就不是很好听,感觉都不像这个年代能做出来的音色……

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#3 25-10-25 07:24
海哥时间 发表于 25-10-24 22:33
官网演示曲有点灾难,第一首放出来就不是很好听,感觉都不像这个年代能做出来的音色……

我在作编曲上是日吹,但这系列的音源就真
安裝还要120G,白送都觉得占地方
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