Symphonic Strings and Brass, Built to Belong Together

LUX Orchestral Bundle brings together Sonuscore's LUX Orchestral Strings and LUX Orchestral Brass for a complementary pairing of cinematic orchestral sections. The breadth and scale of a full 70-piece string ensemble meet brass designed around depth, natural dynamics, and expressive performance. Together, they give composers a foundation for scores that move from intimate detail to powerful symphonic statements.

Both libraries were captured on a large scoring stage by award-winning score mixer Peter Fuchs and the StarRecordings team. Their shared recording approach brings warmth, realism, and a sense of being in the room with the musicians, while allowing each section to retain its own musical character.

Highlights

• Includes LUX Orchestral Strings and LUX Orchestral Brass
• Full 70-piece symphonic string ensemble with cinematic scale and expressive detail
• Brass with up to six recorded dynamic layers and six microphone positions
• Complementary sections designed to work together in orchestral arrangements
• Large scoring-stage recordings captured by Peter Fuchs and the StarRecordings team
• Performance-focused tools for natural phrasing and fluid articulation changes

LUX Orchestral Brass

LUX Orchestral Brass carries the performance-centered approach of LUX Orchestral Strings into a section with different expressive needs. Rather than focusing only on an oversized Hollywood sound, it emphasizes depth and a genuinely recorded dynamic range, giving you brass intended to remain useful across varied scoring situations.

Up to six recorded dynamic layers capture changes in the players' performance rather than creating the entire dynamic range artificially. This provides a foundation for shaping phrases through contrasting levels of intensity while retaining the character of the recorded instruments.

Six microphone positions offer flexibility in shaping the section's perspective, while seamless articulations support connected musical expression. Designed specifically to complement LUX Orchestral Strings, the brass brings depth to arrangements without simply duplicating the strings' sense of width and scale.

LUX Orchestral Strings

LUX Orchestral Strings captures a full 70-piece symphonic string ensemble with the warmth, power, and detail associated with large cinematic scores. Recorded on a spacious scoring stage, it balances the weight of a substantial string section with the clarity and nuance needed for expressive orchestral writing.

The library's performance tools help phrases develop naturally. Seamless Articulation Transitioning lets you move between playing techniques within a held note, while mod-wheel articulation morphing blends textures in real time. Sustains can evolve into tremolos, and changes of character become part of the performance rather than a series of disconnected attacks.

Natural String Change technology preserves the brief resonance of a previous string when a phrase moves onto another, giving wide intervals and arpeggiated figures a more human connection. Adaptive legato responds to your playing, supporting fluid phrasing across melodic passages.

Close, Decca, Far, and Bleed microphone options let you shape the balance between direct detail and scoring-stage resonance. The recording setup included dedicated bleed microphones across the wider orchestral seating, capturing the strings' natural spill and the sense of a real ensemble in the room.

Composer-crafted ensembles provide a quick route from an initial idea to a balanced orchestral sketch. Flexible voicing, octave options, and polyphonic legato help you build supporting layers or develop themes before refining individual parts. Context-focused Key Switch sets keep relevant articulations together, with support for up to 24 keyswitches in one patch.

The articulation palette ranges from essential staccato, spiccato, marcato, tremolo, pizzicato, and portamento to whisper sustains, harmonics legato, soft interval trills, pendulum glissandi, slow bends, and swarm textures. Live-recorded figures and performance gestures bring additional movement to your arrangements.

A Shared Recording Approach, Two Distinct Musical Roles

The strength of the bundle lies in how its sections complement one another. Strings provide breadth, sustained motion, and sweeping melodic lines; brass adds depth and contrasting dynamic character. Their shared scoring-stage approach helps create a coherent orchestral setting without making the two sections sound interchangeable.

Start with a string-led theme, introduce brass to deepen its dramatic shape, and build the arrangement as the cue develops. Whether you are writing for film, television, games, or other orchestral productions, LUX Orchestral Bundle brings these two expressive sections together in one collection.