It’s nine in the evening, and the picture is on the second screen. The brief said moving strings, the director said romantic and powerful, and you’re not going to bed until this cue is finished. You need strings in the session that already sound like the room you wish you were standing in. This is LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS ESSENTIALS.
LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS ESSENTIALS is recorded with the same 70-piece symphonic ensemble that has found its way into film templates across the world. The same scoring stage and engineering team. The same playability which has made LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS an instant hit with composers around the world, but with a feature set you’ll use 90% of the time and a price to match.
What you get with LUX Orchestral Strings Essentials
All five orchestral string sections. 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Celli, and Basses, and each as its own NKI for the moments you want to write a line yourself rather than lean on the section.
The articulation palette covers the day-to-day writing done in a session. Sustain, whisper sustain, marcato. Full legato across the playable range. Staccato, spiccato, pizzicato for the rhythmic work. Tremolo and sul ponticello tremolo for tension and atmosphere. Trills at the second and minor second.
Then the combinations. Sustain with tremolo. Sustain with sul ponticello tremolo. Tremolo morphing into marcato. Staccato into spiccato. The transitions and blends that give string writing its life are captured and ready to play.
Who LUX Orchestral Strings Essentials is for
The documentary that opens on a frozen lake at dawn, with strings that capture the emotion of first light. The trailer build where the tension has to climb, with the top end soaring instead of screeching. The game combat cue that sits underneath sound design bringing another dimension of emotional weight. The episode score where the brief is “warm strings,” and they mean warm! The production music brief where the vision is a London concert hall, but the budget is the local bar, and something you can deliver by lunchtime.
For that work, LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS ESSENTIALS is a complete professional toolkit at a price that makes sense to everyday working composers.
The LUX platform
LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS has found its way into the templates of composers working at the top of the industry. Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Fallout). John Enroth (Thor: Ragnarok). Stephen Gallagher (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, The Beatles: Get Back, District 9). Scott Michael Smith (The Revenant, Shazam!, Ahsoka, Babylon).
Stephen Gallagher put it simply: “Whatever you need to score, whatever you need to write strings for, LUX will cover it.”
LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS ESSENTIALS carries that sound straight into your session at a price a working composer can sign off on.
Scoring Awesome Strings In Minutes
Drop a section into a track, pick an articulation set and play. The interface is simple and intuitive and designed to stay out of the way of your creativity.
And then that sound!
The shorts have weight and edge, and the legato breathes; the tremolos find their space in the mix without distracting. When it comes to strings, LUX is as real as it gets.
You are investing in a string library recorded with a real symphonic ensemble on a real scoring stage, with the articulation depth required for professional cue writing, from a platform trusted by composers scoring the films and TV shows we all love.
It’s the string library your template has been waiting for.
Now go and write the cue.
