Tokyo Scoring Strings: Patch 1.0.7 available (fixed short notes)

[Batuer]

Well done. Not bad, but it could be better.

This is what I feel about the GUI:

1. I like this simple design of the GUI, people can focus on music production not on parameters.

2. The color of the GUI is a bit too monotonous to attract user’s interest and inspire people’s passion for use.

3. Can the articulations be all listed directly? So people see at a glance what articulations being offered in this library.

4. Maybe the big knobs take up too much space? It seems the three knobs has no other functions besides showing the states according the GUI. Especially the vibrato knob is kind of useless when making music. Meanwhile, other libraries have big knobs but with useful functions and more beautiful

That’s my personal opinion and thanks for sharing the GUI.

 

[Sarah Mancuso]

I like the GUI but think the articulations and their respective keyswitches should be listed on the main page itself (which is not the case now unless I'm missing something...)

Articulation management is done on the Artic tab. Keyswitch, velocity, and CC triggering is completely customizable, and you can get an overview of how everything is currently mapped there. It fills the entire page, there's not really room to stuff it all into the Home tab.

 

[axb312]

Articulation management is done on the Artic tab. Keyswitch, velocity, and CC triggering is completely customizable, and you can get an overview of how everything is currently mapped there. It fills the entire page, there's not really room to stuff it all into the Home tab.

Just a list with the notes assigned and the currently active keyswitch could be helpful no?

 

[Getsumen]

Just a list with the notes assigned and the currently active keyswitch could be helpful no?

That would be on the artics tab.

Do you need to see your vibrato and dynamic level while looking at articulations? You can just swap to the artic tab and stay there.

 

[Bear Lew]

Cool GUI, love it!

 

[constaneum]

The sound is good, this GUI is too ugly, can't it be a little bit color? Please refer to CSS, Fluffy Audio Venice Modern Strings, Soaring Strings

I think it's pretty "Simple & Clean". Fine with me. Not that i gonna spend hours looking and adoring GUIs though ...straight dipping into the sound and start working the music.

 

[gedlig]

The color of the GUI is a bit too monotonous to attract user’s interest and inspire people’s passion for use

If people need a colourful UI to inspire writing, there are other problems with them than a UI.

 

[filipjonathan]

I think the GUI is fine. Very different to what we're used to. But that's good. It would, however, be neat if there was an option for a "dark mode" of some sorts, for people that prefer it but either way, it's the sound that matters most.

 

[Daniel Voider]

No matter what people say about the UI,
it's all compensated by this little guy smiling at you.





Imagine you start composing music on a rainy autumn day, you ran out of coffee and of course it's sunday - how could it not be - so buying new one isn't an option. You play back the first 10 seconds of music you came up with after half an hour, which sounds like the whole orchestra had a simultaneous epileptical attack and on top of that none of their instruments were tuned, and it's one of these days where you think to yourself:

"K, how did I lose my composing skills over night" and then the UI be like:

Kinda makes your day good again, innit?

 

[lzcmusic]

Rather than copy the look of other libraries, the strength of Tokyo Scoring Strings is that it looks bright and open in a sea of dark and saturated orchestral libraries. Our subtle highlight colors (in the strings' case, red) will match the branding of each library section, so expect to see different highlight colors in future installments. We are tremendously happy with the hard work of our designer, Paulo Nunes, balancing aesthetic and functionality as well as he could muster. He designed both this UI and the UI of the articulation system (to be shown) in just under 2 months, which is an incredibly productive pace.

I don’t know why the flagship product with such excellent sound is designed into such a simple GUI. The GUI of all Impact Soundwork products is very good, such as the Shreddage 3 Stratus series of guitars. The interface art design is very good, and the World series is also very good. Well, including the recently released 3D GUI of Kageyama Taikos is even more exciting. Only the GUI of Tokyo Scoring Strings...I don’t know if this is a finalized image. The color scheme looks too depressing. The lower part of the main page is okay. The black ripples around the large Dynamics knob on the upper side are really It's too ugly, it's really unacceptable. Shouldn't the knob rotation have some color? For example, the iconic red color of TSS... I hope that developers will provide a traditional-style graphic for the large Dynamics knob.，This should be accepted by more people, even if a toggle switch is provided... I hope that the final finalized GUI will be perfect. To be honest, I Like this library, please make it better, thank you

 

[lzcmusic]

Rather than copy the look of other libraries, the strength of Tokyo Scoring Strings is that it looks bright and open in a sea of dark and saturated orchestral libraries. Our subtle highlight colors (in the strings' case, red) will match the branding of each library section, so expect to see different highlight colors in future installments. We are tremendously happy with the hard work of our designer, Paulo Nunes, balancing aesthetic and functionality as well as he could muster. He designed both this UI and the UI of the articulation system (to be shown) in just under 2 months, which is an incredibly productive pace.

Imaginary picture, for reference only, thanks

 

[Evans]

I'm sad to say that this GUI looks horribly depressing to me, because it reminds me of the movie Arrival, which was a pretty tough watch (for personal reasons I think were not in the trailer, so I'll stop there). I really don't want to be reminded of it.



Would have been an entirely different movie if the characters found out that these beings were just trying to ask for more vibrato.

 

[LoneardyIU]

The GUI obviously needs more waifus and catgirls..... I kinda don't mind it as is tho. I'd mind it more if you would release the library with a beautiful GUI and library tab picture, just to replace it with something depressing a few months later... Looking at you Audio Imperia with your Areia and Jaeger overhaul. I will never get over this... . Areia had such a beautiful library art. A violin on a bed of roses. The inner goth in me really loved it. And don't get me started on the Jaeger GUI. Always felt like an epic Kaiju hunter using the library xD. All taken away from me with a simple update.... . Anyway, looking forward to the walkthrough.

 

[ism]

The ink evokes a sense of the elegance of Japanese calligraphy. There’s a beautiful minimalism to it. 5 stars.

 

[filipjonathan]

I don't think we all are ever going to agree on the same thing. They should release what they think is best and that's it. Anyways, can't wait for the walkthrough!!!

 

[gedlig]

And don't get me started on the Jaeger GUI

I hate the original Jaeger UI. It's an ugly mess xD (which I still see, because they didn't update the seperate Hangar 4) I only wish the new UI had a different shade per library, but otherwise for me it was an improvement

Either way, I like this TSS interface (though maybe a more prominent contrast between white and red would be better to resemble the usual colouring of some japanese objects and paintings)

 

[LoneardyIU]

I hate the original Jaeger UI. It's an ugly mess xD (which I still see, because they didn't update the seperate Hangar 4) I only wish the new UI had a different shade per library, but otherwise for me it was an improvement

Either way, I like this TSS interface (though maybe a more prominent contrast between white and red would be better to resemble the usual colouring of some japanese objects and paintings)

Well, you are obviously free to have that opinion. To me using the library always felt like controlling a Jaeger (if you know the movie Pacific Rim you'll know what I'm talking about or why the library has the name, or had that specific GUI in the first place ). I guess there are always advocates for both sides. But in the end I buy a library for the sound it provides and a good user experience while using it is always welcome. I like having something which is easy and fast to use (the endless mic scrolling in the Spitfire player isn't for example), but over that I prefer things which are FUN to use, even if that means having to "learn" it. The Jaeger GUI did that for me, but I can understand, that if someone doesn't know or like Pacific Rim, they probably don't get the same kick out of it. As long as TSS is fast & easy to use I'm good.

 

[gedlig]

Well, you are obviously free to have that opinion. To me using the library always felt like controlling a Jaeger (if you know the movie Pacific Rim you'll know what I'm talking about or why the library has the name, or had that specific GUI in the first place ). I guess there are always advocates for both sides. But in the end I buy a library for the sound it provides and a good user experience while using it is always welcome. I like having something which is easy and fast to use (the endless mic scrolling in the Spitfire player isn't for example), but over that I prefer things which are FUN to use, even if that means having to "learn" it. The Jaeger GUI did that for me, but I can understand, that if someone doesn't know or like Pacific Rim, they probably don't get the same kick out of it. As long as TSS is fast & easy to use I'm good.

Oh I know Pacific Rim and did like it. It's just the UI that was terrible for me xD Anyway, that's off topic :D

Where are the school uniform catgirls in the TSS UI?

 

[Crowe]

The GUI obviously needs more waifus and catgirls..... I kinda don't mind it as is tho. I'd mind it more if you would release the library with a beautiful GUI and library tab picture, just to replace it with something depressing a few months later... Looking at you Audio Imperia with your Areia and Jaeger overhaul. I will never get over this... . Areia had such a beautiful library art. A violin on a bed of roses. The inner goth in me really loved it. And don't get me started on the Jaeger GUI. Always felt like an epic Kaiju hunter using the library xD. All taken away from me with a simple update.... . Anyway, looking forward to the walkthrough.

I knew there were more of us out there.

Audio Imperia lost all future sales they could've had with me with that awful decision. I actually had the money ready to go and had been waiting for half a year for that Native Instruments sale. AI is dead to me.

EDIT: Yes, I will beat this horse whenever the opportunity arises for the rest of my musical life.

EDIT 2: TSS UI looks great and kinda has the sort of personality I imagine when I think of Japanese String Sections.

 

[Kent]

AI is dead to me.

Don’t let Roko’s Basilisk see this.

(It’s too late, btw)