Applied Acoustics Systems Strum GS-2 Virtual Guitar Plug-in

The Strum GS-2 is the latest acoustic guitar modeling plug-in from Applied Acoustics Systems with an impressive collection of steel and nylon guitar emulations. With its automatic chord recognition, sophisticated chord voicing, and integrated strumming and picking action, playing guitar on a keyboard has never been so easy.

Strum GS-2 is completely redesigned from the original version, with more than 100 different acoustic guitars, from nylon to steel, from jumbo to concert, or from country rock to finger style classical”plus more that 400 MIDI loops covering many musical styles”Strum GS-2 packs everything you need to create awesome guitar parts.

Creating a realistic guitar track from samples is a tough job. Guitar players voice chords their own way, strumming is not easily reproduced on a keyboard, and guitar players use all sort of techniques such as palm muting, scratches, and slides. Strum GS-2 now does all of this for you.

Pick a guitar from your collection
Strum GS-2 features nylon- and steel-string guitars of various sizes, prepped in pick- or finger-sounding colors. A versatile collection that covers a wide range of musical styles, from nylon to steel, jumbo to concert, or from country rock to finger-style classical.‚

Strumming on your keyboard
Down and upstrokes, slides and bends, hammer-ons and pull-offs, palm muting, muffled strings, and arpeggios are all part of Strum GS-2’s playing technique vocabulary. Performing them is simply a matter of using the strumming keys or MIDI loops.‚

Custom guitars
Pick, strings, body, and articulations”have full control on your guitar’ sound and response.‚

Effects
The Effects panel wraps up Strum GS-2 as an all-inclusive package with awesome polishing tools.‚

Strum with MIDI loops
Use the vast collection of recorded strumming patterns over the chords you play and find inspiration for your track. Drag and drop the loop to your host sequencer and make it perfect for you song.

The right voicing for the chords you know
Strum GS-2 chord library contains basic and extended chords available in open, movable, or drop voicing. Play the chords you know and Strum voices them automatically as a guitarist would.

Strum on your keyboard
Trigger down and upstrokes, scratches and mutes, or create picking patterns using the arpeggio keys.

Performance
Strum GS-2 will match your playing style or musical context with ease thanks to the tap tempo and sync to host clock options; flexible vibrato; and precise control over voicing and playing position on the fretboard.