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EVERYTHING • ALL-IN-ONE • OUT OF THE BOX
Composing professional film music is a difficult task. In addition to musical creativity, a great deal of technical knowledge is also required. Until now.
THE SCORE is our groundbreaking all-in-one scoring-tool, covering a massive palette of genres, styles and instruments. Our goal is to provide you with the perfect assistant, making composing as creative and free as possible, without any limits. Skip all technical burdens and start making music now.
- THE SCORE is a perfectly matched scoring toolbox, guiding you from the start to the end of your composition
- THE SCORE has a massive, colorful instrument palette: 46 orchestral, 37 synth, 20 band, 34 world and 18 drum instruments and more (160 in total)
- THE SCORE comes with over 150 animated Stories to inspire you. Each Story includes four different arrangements with a vast dynamic range, meant to help you spin your own musical tale
- THE SCORE comes with various groundbreaking power tools: Chord Studio, Melody Studio, Dynamic Mixer, Adaptive Customizer, MIDI export
“I was impressed by THE SCORE’s beautiful sound. The samples are lush and expressive.”
Beth Burnett • Composer
Murmuring Records
THE ALL-IN-ONE SCORING TOOL
THE SCORE is our ALL-IN-ONE solution for scoring. It’s a perfectly coordinated toolbox to give you the popular sounds-like-film-music feeling right OUT OF THE BOX. Compose professional scores quickly and joyfully in a jam-like composition process. Or compose your music note-for-note using our huge collection of single instruments.
AUDIO DEMOS
SNIPPETS
“What I absolutely love about THE SCORE is that it helps me fire my imagination into new musical directions. The library isn’t doing the work for me. It’s providing me with excellent tools and resources with which to explore and react with.”
Stephen Gallagher • Composer | Music Editor
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | The Beatles: Get Back
What’s Inside?
THE SCORE gives you everything you need to compose for any genre, right out of the box. Start with inspiring Stories and use our smart tools to get on track instantly. Further shape your work with 160 individual instruments. Our intuitive interface makes your composing efficient, straightforward, and fun.
THE STORIES
THE SCORE comes with 150 complex Stories for a quick entry into every genre. Stories are animated arrangements, each featuring diverse musical variations with vast dynamic ranges. All Stories are completely customizable – they are the foundation of your creative progress. Find inspiration by using the 150 included Stories or create, save and share your very own Stories.
QUICK ENTRY
A story is a carefully arranged color palette to quickly get you into any mood and genre.
VARIATIONS
With keyswitches, switch between any of several musical variations within each story.
DYNAMICS
Use the Mod Wheel to take control of the arrangement and dynamic of every story.
STORIES JAM STATION
Get an idea of what the Stories sound like with our interactive previews.
Skip through the different Stories and trigger the chords with the buttons below.
NOTE: This is only an interactive browser preview. Our 150 Stories can be played freely and are completely customizable.
THE INSTRUMENTS
All Stories are made of 10 arranged instrument slots, which you can exchange at your will. To cover the extremely diverse scoring palette, THE SCORE comes with 160 instruments, covering everything from all orchestral instrument sections, to countless diverse synthetic and band instruments, world music soloists, percussion and more… THE SCORE gives you EVERYTHING YOU NEED to create the perfect score.
A MASSIVE INSTRUMENT POOL + SMART TOOLS
PLAY ANY OF THE 160 INSTRUMENTS FREELY
THE SCORE has a huge pool of instruments that can be played freely or in combination with a set of revolutionary and intelligent composition tools.
It's up to you whether you want to be inspired by THE SCORE's tools or just dive into the huge pool of instruments - to play them freely.
What Makes A Good Score?
The key to many good scores is the combination of accompaniment and melody. THE SCORE comes with two separate instruments (ENSEMBLE & LEAD), each focusing on one key aspect, ensuring the most efficient workflow.
ENSEMBLE
The ENSEMBLE instrument will help you create diverse accompaniments.
LEAD
The LEAD instrument will help you create unique melodies and lead content.
THE ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENT
3 Steps to The Perfect Score
1. FIND YOUR INSPIRATION
THE SCORE’s ENSEMBLE instrument is the heart of every score. It lets you compose beautiful arrangements within minutes.
13 GENRES
THE SCORE’s color palette is incredibly diverse, filling up 13 unique genres.
12 STYLES
THE SCORE takes the dramaturgist's perpective, helping you immediately find the right mood for every scene.
150 STORIES
THE SCORE comes with 150 diverse stories. Create your own stories from scratch or find inspiration from existing ones.
2. SHAPE YOUR SOUND
Choose instruments, adjust the dynamic palette and modify the sound of the selected story with a variety of the best effects available.
Refine the dynamic range of the story. In THE SCORE, this is a very powerful feature: Create extremely organic arrangement transitions between dialog and non-dialog scenes just within one Mod Wheel movement.
Use diverse high-end FX to polish or heavily modify your sound. THE SCORE comes with 23 FX from the newest KONTAKT 7 version, including various EQs, dynamic, distortion, delay, modulation and reverb effects.
All Stories come with 10 instrument slots and are completely customizable. Use this browser to engineer your orchestration with 160 instruments.
3. PLAY YOUR SCORE
Deep dive into every bit of your story as architect of your composition.
Add or change the global accents of your story to create new and unique rhythms within seconds. This is a true power-feature, saving you hours of editing for each instrument.
You can view all notes and instruments here. Clicking on each instrument will open the editing view.
Every story comes with up to 4 unique variations, triggered by keyswitches.
SHAPE EVERY NOTE
Click on an instrument to change its behavior and customize every detail.
Modify long notes relating to the Mod Wheel. Invert the curve to create astonishing morph-effects and incredibly organic textures.
Use the Step Sequencer to modify the velocity of short notes relating to the movement of the Mod Wheel.
Design your own individual musical patterns with up to 5 pitches simultaneously for fuller arrangements.
When having a percussion instrument selected, the customizer automatically becomes a drum map for handy drum programming within THE SCORE.
NEW: PLAY ENSEMBLES FREELY
Each slot now acts as a playable instrument, allowing users to create their own Stories with specific articulations—ideal for grand ensemble patches.
THE LEAD INSTRUMENT
Get Inspired By Unheard Melodies & Create your own
THE SCORE’s LEAD Instrument is the perfect partner to the ENSEMBLE. Compose astonishingly beautiful melodies and let the LEAD enchant you with its beautiful melody instruments.
INSTRUMENTS
Choose between up to 2 beautiful melodic instruments.
INSTRUMENTS
Use top-notch effects to polish your sound.
MELODY STUDIO™
THE SCORE’s Melody Studio™ lets you create unheard of melodies with one click using a unique Markov chain-based algorithm. Simply generate and polish melodies to make them your own.
GET INSPIRED
Let our magic algorithms enchant you with amazing melodies, based on your settings.
COMBINE
Combine the power of our Melody Studio™ and the Chord Studio™ by importing chord progressions into the Melody Studio™.
SHAPE YOUR MELODY
Move and shape every note in the editor to create exactly what you have in mind.
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Make the melody your own within THE SCORE by adjusting the notes to your taste. Export the MIDI including the dynamics to your DAW to orchestrate it further.
CONTROL DYNAMICS
Control the dynamics to create beautiful expressive melodies.
ADJUST THE ALGORITHM
Customize the conditions of the algorithm to get the desired results.
Welcome TO Our Chord Studio™
THE SCORE comes with a unique Chord Studio™ to expand your tonal cosmos. Get inspired by the chord progressions that come with each story and make them your own.
Jam with the selected chords that come with each story.
Click chords and immediately hear them being played by your stories’ arrangement. Pure inspiration!
Switch between chromatic and scale mode.
Compose full tracks within THE SCORE!
Use special chords and inversions.
BRAND NEW – Free Update 1.2
We are grateful for all the positive feedback and your requests to further improve The Score. With the latest FREE 1.2 update, we’ve added a number of advanced features and improvements that refine the music composing experience with even more control over the behind-the-scenes technology that powers The Score.
- NEWFREE MODE: Use each slot as a freely playable instrument.
- NEWEXTERNAL MODE: Bypass THE SCORE’s engine and play each slot on its corresponding MIDI channel from your DAW.
- NEWUNDO/REDO: Added directly to the Play Page to support a more flexible creative process.
- NEWMIDI ASSIGNS: Solo/Mute buttons are now automatable.
- NEWNEW STORY CATEGORY – “ENSEMBLE”: specifically designed for the new FREE MODE
- NEW20 NEW STORIES: Experience the full potential of the Free Mode, opening up new avenues for creativity.
HOW TO GET THE FREE UPDATE?
Existing THE SCORE customers: The update is now available by using the dedicated Best Service update installer, only for the update content, or visit your Best Service customer account for a complete download of THE SCORE in the updated version.
New THE SCORE customers: The update is also directly available for new customers.
PREVIOUS UPDATE – Update 1.1
- NEW10 new stories
- NEWLEAD Instrument: additional Sustain Patches for all Legato Patches.
- NEWChord Studio: Sample chord progressions with each Story.
- NEWChord Studio: Chord generator in scale mode.
- NEWChord Studio: 16 new chord types for more advanced harmonies.
- NEWChord Studio: Octave function for timeline and jam tab.
- NEWKeyswitches can now be transposed by two octaves.
- NEWCustomizer: “Clear” function to mute instruments and create variations more easily.
- NEWInstruments can be loaded multiple times into multiple slots to edit sustains and arps in creative ways.
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AUDIO DEMOS
SNIPPETS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Works with the FREE KONTAKT PLAYER
- KONTAKT version 7.7.1 or higher
- macOS 11 or higher
- Windows 10 or higher
- Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU with 2 GB RAM
- Graphics hardware support for Direct 3D 11.1 (Feature Level 11_0) or higher
- 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for large KONTAKT Instruments)
- At least 19.5 GB of free hard disc space
KEY FEATURES
- The ultimate all-in-one set of scoring tools
- A mind-blowing customizer controlling 10 layers of melodies and harmonies
- Mod Wheel fully optimized to maximize the energy and tension
- An entire orchestral selection with 160 instruments
- 150 incredible animated Story presets with four different arrangements and endless possibilities
- 4 groundbreaking tools: Chord Studio, Melody Studio, Dynamic Mixer, Adaptive Customizer
- Lead instrument to design virtuosos and melody
- 19.5 GB of uncompressed data
