LA Scoring Strings 2.

0 (LASS) brings you a whole new set of tools and sonic profiles
providing a new level of expressiveness, realism, real-time playability and programability to sampled strings.
Aside from our new Stage & Color feature (providing an easy way for you to have LASS
sound like famous orchestral recordings and film scores), LASS 2 has over 60 new
patches ranging from Aleatoric (string effects) to NV-Vib (non vibrato to vibrato) to
Real Legato Tremolo and Trill patches.
Below is a partial list of some of LASS 2.0s new features (you can also read about
LASSs new A.R.C. (Audiobro Remote Control).
Stage & Color At the heart of Stage & Color is a collection of exclusive orchestral
sound profiles (colors) inspired by famous movie scores and recordings. Now, at the
push of a button, LASS can adopt the tonal characteristics of some of the most
coveted scores and recordings.
A new ARC (Audiobro Remote Control) master script that will allow for dramatically
easier control of all sections and divisis from a single window.
Reverb and width controls of multiple patches from within the ARC
ART programming of multiple patches from within the ARC
CC Table control of multiple patches from within the ARC
Auto Arranger control of multiple patches from within the ARC
A new Key Switching approach of multiple patches from within the ARC
Aleatoric (string effects) patches
Non Vibrato to Vibrato patches
Legato Tremolo patches
Legato Trill patches
Micro Tuning and real-time performance of tuning
A CC Attenuation knob that allows on to ride CC attenuation in real-time or after-thefact for added dynamic control.
A new User Interface that is easier to read and more pleasant to look at.
A drastically reduced footprint of only about 16.5GB due to the inclusion of NIs NCW
(loss-less compression audio file format) files. We include the 24 bit files since it will be
about 30% less taxing on your hard drive than a 24-bit wave file. We noticed no
measurable CPU hit using the NCW files and we did a lot of testing.
Many other new features and improvements
The ARC
The ARC (Audiobro Remote Control) is a huge part of the LASS 2 upgrade. Not only
does it allow easy and simultaneous access to programming all your patches, but it is
also the centerpiece to Stage & Color. There are so many things that the ARC can do,
we decided to give it its own section on this site. Please visit the ARC Page to read
more about it.
NEW LASS 2 Patches
There are over 60 new patches covering new articulations in LASS 2 (see below), and
ALL LASS 2.0 patches have been reworked to integrate with the ARC.

Aleatoric Patches
In case your wondering, aleatoric strings is a term often used in film-scoring to
describe string sounds that have randomness and dissonance that can heighten the
tension and drama in a scene. LASSs Aleatoric patches allow users to perform (in realtime) these types of dissonant string effects that are so sought after in film scores. By
assigning the different divisis to a patch and allowing for individual control of tuning
and modulation, you are able to create many varieties of dissonant strings while
maintaining control of how it reacts over time. These patches are included for all
sections (violins, violas, cellos and basses) in a variety of articulations: Sustains,
Tremolos, Trills.
Non-Vibrato to Vibrato (NV-Vib) Patches
LASSs new Legato patches are much more powerful than before. Not only do these
patches play non-vibrato and vibrato legato, portamento and glissando articulations,
but they also allow you to vary the amount of vibrato in real-time completely
transparently via CC2. Furthermore, when you no longer need the NV-Vib functionality,
you can simply turn off the NV-Vib mode without purging your samples thereby
saving you polyphony.
We have also included a CC Attenuation knob to all legato patches. This allows you to
reduce the dynamics of a passage by turning the knob down (even remotely via CC).
This is useful if you like your dynamics but you just want to lower them by a certain
percentage.
Features:

Consolidated legato patches

Realtime Loading/Purging of Legato Transitions
Realtime Loading/Purging of NV/Vib
Auto Arranger quick on/off control added

Intelliegent Legato Trill Patches

LASSs new Legato Trill patches are smart. With a key switch (dictating the key of your
piece) you can perform diatonic trills whereby, when you play a new trill note, the
transition to that trill note can be either a legato, portamento or glissando transition.

Legato Tremolo Patches

LASSs new Tremolo Legato patches allow you to play tremolo lines with legato,
portamento and glissando transitions. These patches look similar to the other Real

Legato patches as seen above.

Updated A.R.T. Patches
Aside from being 100% integrated with the ARC, LASS 2s new A.R.T. patches include
several new performance features including real-time Quantization and a
Retrigger/Continuous mode.
Retrigger and Continuous modes newly played notes retrigger the start of the
rhythm pattern or they continue on and join the other notes at the same spot in the
rhythm pattern.
Quantize a new approach to quantizing where only notes outside of the user
defined note value are quantized. This allows the user to retain the human feel. Of
course one can 100% quantize the notes.

LASS 2.0 Script Updates

All of the LASS 2 scripts have been updated to integrate with the ARC so that you can
control all of LASSs important features remotely from one centralized window. No
more having to scroll through all the patches to apply changes you need. This is both a
big time saver and can be inspiring. How many times do people abandon good ideas
simply because they are too time consuming to execute?! Well this is where ARC
integration saves you time.
Before LASS 2, if you wanted to change the non-performance settings on multiple
patches, you would have to make those changes on a per-patch basis. Now with LASS
2 and the ARC, the newly revised scripts listen to the ARC and update the settings on
as many patches as you choose from within the ARC.
The Auto Arranger (now controllable from the ARCs AA & DNH page) script brings a
whole new range of features never before possible with sampled string libraries with
the following features:
Deep integration with the ARC so now you can apply changes to batches of
instruments in 1 place.
Polyphonic legato with Real Legato, Real Portamento and Real Glissando
Auto divisi and accurate player count
Play all sections with 2 hands on 1 MIDI channel
Have other sections double at different octaves
Create inversions of your chords on-the-fly
Create your own set of Key Switchable rules that you can invoke in real-time
Up to 13 part voice tracking!

The Delay and Humanization (now controllable from the ARCs AA & DNH page) script
has the following features:
A new AA On/Off button is now on the main performance view of all patches.
New Pedal behavior modes have been added.
Deep integration with the ARC so now you can apply changes to batches of
instruments in 1 place.

The Tuning Tool script (now controllable from the ARCs Tuning page) has the following
features:
Complete script redesign
Tonal morphing using assignable Tuning CC
Deep integration with the ARC so now you can apply changes to batches of
instruments in 1 place.
The Tuning Tool script is now has a Range Tuning and Micro Tuning mode.
Tuning expanded up to +/- min 3rd (300 cents)
Save/Load tuning presets to/from disk
Table Shifter added
Automatic key coloring
A new Tuning Amt knob allows you to assign a CC to change the tuning amount in
real-time. This allow for dissonant string effects on every patch.

Micro Tuning is lets you chose different tuning for each note in an octave and then
assigned those tunings across the entire range of the instrument.

The CC Table script (now controllable from the ARCs CC Table page) has the following
features:
Deep integration with the ARC so now you can apply changes to batches of
instruments in 1 place.
The CC Table script is now accessible from the front panel of the patch.
There are now 10 user presets for you own dynamic layer and volume curves
The default curve will never be lost.There is a knob that will allow you to choose from
different curves (Fig 5)
There is a smoothing knob that will even out any jagged table artifacts if you draw
them in that way by accident.
For interface:

Mac:
/yourUserAccount/Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 5/pictures/ARC/ *(this whole
folder)
/yourUserAccount/Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 5/presets/MultiScripts/ARC
2.51.nkp
Windows Vista, Windows 7:
Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\pictures\ARC\ *(this whole folder)
Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\presets\MultiScripts\ARC 2.51.nkp
Windows XP
My Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\pictures\ARC\ *(this whole folder)
My Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\presets\MultiScripts\ARC 2.51.nkp
Release NOTE:
Fixed problems with interface, includes new patches
if you have a previous release "Audiobro LASS Full 2 REPACK KONTAKTMAGNETRiXX" you can use for Fix interface "ARC v2.51 for LA Scoring Strings
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The Audiobro Remote Control (aka ARC) is the most striking new feature introduced in
LASS 2.0. This powerful script allows you to control multiple patches from one place;
for example, you can globally purge or load samples, turn vibrato/non-vibrato on and
off, set up Auto Rhythm patterns, and so on, without having to scroll down and
individually perform those operations on each patch. As well as being a big time-saver
for programming multi-patch setups, the ARC also introduces several important new
features, which we'll examine below.
Since many orchestral samplists rely on keyswitches to perform articulation changes,
the absence of patch keyswitching in the original library was a surprise. That omission
has been rectified in LASS 2.0: users can now set up their own keyswitches, which is
good news for those who want to integrate this library into their existing orchestral
templates. Using ARC's 'Set-up' page (the details of which are explained in the 'It's A
Set-up' box), you can create a set of up to 12 keyswitches, which can be globally
shifted up or down in pitch simply by adjusting the bottom note.

This is the latest update to the ARC for LA Scoring Strings (LASS).
From the Audiobro website:
Mac:
/yourUserAccount/Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 5/pictures/ARC/ *(this whole
folder)
/yourUserAccount/Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 5/presets/MultiScripts/ARC
2.51.nkp
Windows Vista, Windows 7:
Documents\Native Instruments

5\pictures\ARC\ *(this whole folder)

Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\presets\MultiScripts\ARC 2.51.nkp
Windows XP
My Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\pictures\ARC\ *(this whole folder)
My Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 5\presets\MultiScripts\ARC 2.51.nkp
To make sure ARC is properly installed simply load the multi called: ARC Starter. If you
see ARC you are good to go.
However, I had to put the files in Program Files\Common Files\Native
Instruments\Kontakt 5