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LUX Orchestral Strings

A Hollywood Dream for Film Composers

LUX Orchestral Strings is unlike any product we have ever made. From the very beginning we set out to create something that felt as close as possible to standing on the scoring stage. Our most ambitious library to date, designed so that composers can be even more ambitious with their music.

LUX Orchestral Strings is not just another string library. It is a 70-piece symphonic string ensemble, recorded on a large scoring stage with unprecedented realism, warmth and scale. It puts you right in the room with the orchestra.

LUX Orchestral Strings was crafted by composers for composers with a professional workflow in mind.

Create Scores that Last

Do you remember the first time you sat in a cinema and the hairs on the back of your neck stood up? When the music gave you goosebumps before a single word was spoken. Film score has the power to excite us, to move us, and to supercharge the story. Some of the most classic films are inseparable from their scores. Perhaps it was the opening brass fanfare of Star Wars, the menacing low strings of Jaws, or the magical shimmer as E.T. and Elliott flew across the moon. Those sounds did not just accompany the story, they became part of the memory.

What Makes LUX Special

LUX Orchestral Strings was created with a composer’s workflow in mind. We crafted the sound and developed unique techniques to deliver the most natural playing and composing experience. Switch effortlessly between articulation sets tailored to different styles and keep your creativity flowing. Discover a sound so authentic, it feels like you’re standing right in the heart of the orchestra.

S.A.T. – Seamless Articulation Transitioning

In most libraries, articulation changes sound like separate recordings, not a continuous performance. Real musicians play differently – they flow naturally from one technique to another. A sustained note becomes a tremolo simply by increasing bow speed, without any break or restart.

S.A.T. brings that fluid motion to LUX. Move between articulations while holding a note, letting phrases evolve with the natural expressiveness of real performance. A gentle key switch creates a gradual shift, a stronger one a quick change – giving you true instrumental flow at your fingertips.

70-Player String Ensemble

LUX Orchestral Strings is huge, not a small chamber group, not a cut-down studio section, but a full 70-piece symphonic string ensemble recorded with the size and power that defined the golden age of Hollywood film scores.

It delivers the perfect balance for modern scoring: bigger and richer than smaller 30 – 40 player sections, yet more detailed and versatile than oversized 90+ ensembles. It captures the cinematic weight of world-class film recordings while retaining clarity, flexibility, and expressive nuance. Ideal for any professional composer.

Comprehensive Bleed Microphones

– Done Right

Only a few libraries offer a bleed option, and usually only in a limited way. With LUX Orchestral Strings we wanted to capture the true experience of a full orchestral scoring session, so we took it much further.

In total we set up 48 microphones. 26 were used for the main capture — tree, far, and close mics for the string sections. On top of that we added another 22 close bleed microphones across the brass, woodwinds and percussion sections to record their natural spill into the strings. This recreated the complete orchestral recording setup, with every mic you would expect to find on a professional scoring stage.

Resonance That Lives and Breathes

With LUX Orchestral Strings you can choose how much of that natural spill you want in your mix, from just a touch of color to the full character of the scoring stage. The result is bleed that does not feel like an added effect, but like the resonance and interplay of a real orchestra in the room. Other libraries hint at it. LUX Orchestral Strings delivers it in full.

Composer-Crafted Ensembles – Instant Inspiration

When inspiration strikes, speed is everything. LUX Orchestral Strings offers carefully crafted ensembles, designed by composers who understand true orchestral balance. Sketch soaring melodies or driving rhythms in seconds, then refine them into detailed individual parts at your own pace. Flexible voicing and octave options ensure a full, lush sound, ideal for quick sketches or powerful supporting layers. These ensembles are not shortcuts, they are inspiration engines.

Key Switch Sets

For Every Musical Context

LUX introduces something no other library offers, dedicated Key Switch sets tailored to specific scoring needs. Whether you are writing an action sequence, a lyrical theme, a soft texture, or a melodic passage, you can load a single set that contains all the articulations you need for that context.

Natural String Change

Legato with the soul of a player

Real string players do not cut notes short when leaping across intervals. As the bow moves, the previous string lingers, resonating just a moment longer and giving the phrase its natural flow. It is a small detail, but it is what makes live performance so moving. For LUX Orchestral Strings, violinist and developer Jonas Meyer created Natural String Change technology, a system that detects when the next note would fall on a different string and allows the previous one to breathe into it.

That’s just the start

The innovations set LUX Orchestral Strings apart, but the full feature set is just as impressive:

Adaptive Legato

Adaptive legato that responds to your playing with natural phrasing.

Complete Set of Core Articulations

Including staccato, spiccato, marcato, tremolo, pizzicato, portamento, con sordino emulation and more.

Extended Techniques

Included are techniques such as whisper sustains, harmonics legato, soft interval trills, pendulum glissandi, slow bends and swarm textures.

Live-Recorded Elements

Included are trill figures, measured arpeggios and performance gestures that add realism.

Fluid Staccatos

Recorded in real rhythmic contexts, with an intelligent staccato mode for effortless ostinatos.

Ensemble Instrument

The ensemble instrument features polyphonic legato for sketching instant orchestrations.

Seamless Articulation Transitioning

Use our brand-new S.A.T. technology across every context of LUX.

Polyphonic Aftertouch and +8VA

Use polyphonic aftertouch and the added octave feature throughout the complete instrument.

Four Mic Positions

Three standard mic positions (Close, Decca, Far) plus the exclusive Bleed option.

Pro Stage

Every note was captured on a large concert stage chosen for its natural warmth and scale. The seating was arranged in traditional symphonic layout, with each section positioned exactly as it would be on the scoring stage. This ensures the sound is not just accurate, but cinematic in every sense – wide, immersive, and balanced so it sits perfectly in any cinematic production without the need for additional processing.

Pro Engineers

To record LUX Orchestral Strings, we collaborated with StarRecordings productions and with award-winning score mixer Peter Fuchs, whose work spans over 400 films like Iron Man 3, Now You See Me and games, including Harry Potter, Call Of Duty and more. His meticulous approach allowed even challenging techniques, such as whisper legato, to be captured with remarkable precision, ensuring that LUX Orchestral Strings delivers unmatched clarity and expressiveness for composers.

Pro Gear

For the recording sessions, only the finest professional gear was chosen to capture every nuance of the orchestra. With an arsenal of legendary microphones from DPA, Schoeps, Neumann, Coles, and more, the recordings deliver unmatched clarity, depth, and realism. This world-class setup ensures that every bow stroke, resonance, and subtle detail is preserved, giving composers the most authentic and inspiring virtual string library possible.