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Tokyo Scoring Strings 2.0 Development Progress - New previews on page 3 (late December)

Hey Sarah. Good job.

You work for ISW? I seem to remember you (?) getting into it with a dev... maybe 8DIO (?) a while back? Or was that someone else? Just curious here... :)
 
Sarah Mancuso said:
So a handful of folks here might already know I’ve been working on a huge update to Tokyo Scoring Strings. It’s a version 2.0 that completely overhauls it with a new engine and a focus on smooth, versatile legato, with the intent being for it to handle basically anything you can throw at it. It’s coming in 2024 and it’s going to be free for everyone who already owns the library.

Here's a quick rundown of some of its legato features, with demo clips from speedwrite-style test sequences I've been using to run it through its paces:

It has round robin legatos,
View attachment TSS-V1VaVc-111523-011.mp3

it’s extremely agile,
View attachment TSS-V1VaVcFast-111723-010.mp3

it can be lyrical,
View attachment TSS2Proto-111123-014.mp3

it can do runs,
View attachment TSS-RandomRuns-022.mp3

and it’s supremely playable and buttery smooth. (This is me doing some completely random unedited keyboard improv on the cellos.)
View attachment TSS2-CelloImprov-111323-001.mp3

These test clips are of a pre-alpha prototype version, and so far only feature violins 1, viola, and cellos, using engineer Mitsunori Aizawa’s pre-baked board mix only. They should give an idea of what you can expect from the update, but note also that I’m still working hard on this and have been making new breakthroughs pretty regularly, so expect further changes and improvements from here.

edit: Whoops, the third clip was accidentally a repeat of the first one. Fixed now!
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Sounds awesome. Please don't forget that the magic of strings is that they are just as agile and lyrical playing softly. If you can get them to do runs and sing lyrically at the lower dynamics, I'll by it for sure.
 
Would you recommend hanging on to the purchase for version 2.0? What would the price difference be?
 
José Herring said:
Sounds awesome. Please don't forget that the magic of strings is that they are just as agile and lyrical playing softly. If you can get them to do runs and sing lyrically at the lower dynamics, I'll by it for sure.
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Here's a short lyrical clip I put together last night using the pianissimo dynamic only (and lots of layered 8th note RR sequences) with the current TSS 2.0 legato prototype. Modwheel is at 0 for the entire clip, just using CC11 to add some volume movement. (Usual disclaimer about this being a pre-pre-alpha work in progress and subject to change.)

View attachment TSS2-SoftDyn-007.mp3
 
Sarah Mancuso said:
Here's a short lyrical clip I put together last night using the pianissimo dynamic only (and lots of layered 8th note RR sequences) with the current TSS 2.0 legato prototype. Modwheel is at 0 for the entire clip, just using CC11 to add some volume movement. (Usual disclaimer about this being a pre-pre-alpha work in progress and subject to change.)

View attachment TSS2-SoftDyn-007.mp3
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This is pretty impressive, and i consider myself one of the legato police.
 
Sarah Mancuso said:
So a handful of folks here might already know I’ve been working on a huge update to Tokyo Scoring Strings. It’s a version 2.0 that completely overhauls it with a new engine and a focus on smooth, versatile legato, with the intent being for it to handle basically anything you can throw at it. It’s coming in 2024 and it’s going to be free for everyone who already owns the library.

Here's a quick rundown of some of its legato features, with demo clips from speedwrite-style test sequences I've been using to run it through its paces:

It has round robin legatos,
View attachment TSS-V1VaVc-111523-011.mp3

it’s extremely agile,
View attachment TSS-V1VaVcFast-111723-010.mp3

it can be lyrical,
View attachment TSS2Proto-111123-014.mp3

it can do runs,
View attachment TSS-RandomRuns-022.mp3

and it’s supremely playable and buttery smooth. (This is me doing some completely random unedited keyboard improv on the cellos.)
View attachment TSS2-CelloImprov-111323-001.mp3

These test clips are of a pre-alpha prototype version, and so far only feature violins 1, viola, and cellos, using engineer Mitsunori Aizawa’s pre-baked board mix only. They should give an idea of what you can expect from the update, but note also that I’m still working hard on this and have been making new breakthroughs pretty regularly, so expect further changes and improvements from here.

edit: Whoops, the third clip was accidentally a repeat of the first one. Fixed now!

edit 2: New pianissimo preview on page 2! https://vi-control.net/community/th...gress-new-legato-previews.145885/post-5448425
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Holy cow this all sounds good!
 
Sarah Mancuso said:
Here's a short lyrical clip I put together last night using the pianissimo dynamic only (and lots of layered 8th note RR sequences) with the current TSS 2.0 legato prototype. Modwheel is at 0 for the entire clip, just using CC11 to add some volume movement. (Usual disclaimer about this being a pre-pre-alpha work in progress and subject to change.)

View attachment TSS2-SoftDyn-007.mp3
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I would love to hear this passage with mod wheel and dynamic layers, it sounds already amazing just this one layer! what black magic is happening under the hood? this sounds like a very realistic agility that a lot of libraries cannot do.
Looking forward to mid December and the possibility of little Timmy not having any presents this Christmas :emoji_laughing:
 
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