Strum GS-2 ACOUSTIC & ELECTRIC GUITARS

Your new

session guitarist Strum GS-2 is a plug-in for the production of guitar tracks. With a huge collection of acoustic and electric guitars, automatic chord recognition, sophisticated chord voicing, integrated strumming and picking action, MIDI riff library, amp and effects, playing guitar on a keyboard has never been so easy.

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Outstrip any sample-based guitar plug-in Its performance features and the sound quality of its physical modeling far outstrip any sample-based guitar plug-in. Marty Cutler, Keyboard

Acoustic

Electric

next · top § What’s new? § We’ve completely reinvented Strum GS-2—

You didn’t know you could play guitar so well.

NEW Acoustic and electric The acoustic and electric guitars are now included in a single plug-in.

NEW Guitar library A completely reviewed factory library with a huge collection of production-ready acoustic and electric guitars.

NEW MIDI loop library An extensive set of strumming patterns in MIDI loop packs covering different techniques and musical styles.

NEW Modeling A completely revised string module, finer pick/finger interaction, integrated coupling at the bridge, and precise body response for a super rich and natural tone

NEW Keyboard mode The new Keyboard mode lets you play lead lines and your own voicings.

NEW Loop mode The new Loop mode gives you direct access to elaborate rhythm figures—which you can pick from a large collection of MIDI loops covering many musical styles—to supplement your chord progressions.

NEW Strumming engine Completely revised strumming engine for expressive and natural strumming. NEW Compressor and equalizer These new additions are perfect to add punch and definition to your sound, letting you cut through any dense mix or stage.

NEW Limiter The new output limiter protects your ears and monitors during experimentation with the synth’s parameters while providing a maximum of distortion-free dynamics.

NEW Streamlined interface Redesigned from the ground up, the new interface now divides Strum GS-2 into three panels: Play presents shortcuts to the performance and effect parameters including bypass switches for quick edits; Edit lets you tweak and create your sound; while FX supplies equalizer, compressor, multi-effect, and reverb processors for a final sheen.

NEW Bank and program manager Strum GS-2’s new manager allows simple and efficient organization, backup, and sharing of your sounds.

NEW Native 64-­bit AU, VST, and AAX plug­-ins Strum GS-2 now runs in native 64-bit on Mac OS X and Windows making it compatible with the latest sequencers.

UPDATED Overhauled effects Reinvigorated and polished, Strum GS-2’s multi-effect processor features our best sounding chorus, delay, phaser, flanger, distortion, notch filter, wah-wah, auto-wah, and reverb to date!

next · top § Try Strum GS-2 now for free § Fully functional. Less than 88.0 MB to download. Seconds to install.

next · top Acoustic + electric The convenience of having all your guitars at the flick of a switch. Go acoustic…

… or electric.

next · top § Pick a guitar from your collection § With more than 200 different acoustic and electric guitars—nylon, steel, single coil and humbucker fitted pickups, clean, crunchy, distorted—, a 2-channel amplifier, spring reverb, speaker cabinet, and effects as well as 102 MIDI riffs covering many musical styles, Strum GS-2 packs everything you need to create guitar parts for your productions.

Acoustic—63 presets Dreadnought Wide Parlor Soul Mood Cold Friday Clean Slate Endless Nameless Freedoms Sunny California R&B King Flamenco Winter Nylon Warmest Nylon Aramid Lamento Straight Nylon Dark and Fat Nylon Nylon Soloist LA Nylon Hot Rio Parlor Full Parlor Bright Parlor Smooth Dreadnought Full Dreadnought Bright Dreadnought Smooth Wide Full Wide Bright Wide Smooth Hollow Body 63 total…

Acoustic Experimental—40 presets Traditional Murts Only Time Blue Ridge Smuitar In To Wishing Hammer Child Fuitar Chapper Lower Broom Prisma Hanger Eastern Snap Awesome Thai Gameland Arp Urban Chaos Bubble Bath Buzzing Love Oozing Mall Eastern Water Wahper Plate Moos Delaying Squeeker Space Lay Ghostly Drinks String Flu Fallen Rig Distorted Feeder Aggresive Distorter Sweeping Wah Intro Expectations 40 total…

Electric Clean—80 presets Smokey Club Clean S-type Bright Snow S-type King Stratosphere S-type Legend Greenwitch Blue Jazz Clean Dreamer Clean Jacky S-type Pro Bright S-type Pro Rhythm Dry Fly Jamaican Strum No Tricks Tell Her Now Surf's Up Sweet Jacky Baycheck S-type Vintage Rhythm S-type Vintage Bright T-type Vintage T-type Pro Lester Vintage Lester 59 Lester Pro Throated 1 Throated 2 Soft Muted Rock FM 80 total…

Electric Crunch—34 presets Twangy Trem PSL Rhythm Scooped PSL Crunch 1 PSL Crunch 2 Crunchy Gerry Funk Screamer Cola Crunch 1 Cola Crunch 2 Cola Crunch 3 Pentatonic Master Super Dirt Attitude The Lowdown Go-to S-type California Grooves Dark Side Of The Wall Dream Wah Sweep Talking Baby Summer Chorus Trem Crunch Muddy Waters Matcher Cute Rip Cracky Jacky Phased Lady Space Feedbacker Notchy Rotor A Little Talking Lost In Translation 34 total…

Electric Distortion—25 presets PSL Pushed PSL Lead Invasion Annihilation Redrate Bruut Damage Red Fuzzer Rigger Feed Fuzz Solo Front Fire Rock U Ringer Feed 90s Rock Solo Face Melter 1 Face Melter 2 Face Melter 3 Overdrive Power Code Dirtbag Phase Up In Flames Baby Cries Dist Wah Sweep Rage x Machine Red Whopper

Electric DI—11 presets S-type Vintage Rhythm S-type Vintage Bright S-type Pro Rhythm S-type Pro Bright T-type Vintage T-type Pro Lester Vintage Lester 59 Lester Pro Mellow Mood Mellow Groove

Acoustic MIDI loop packs—406 loops in 58 packs Bluegrass Basics 120 bpm Country Farm Jam 110 bpm Country Funk 105 bpm Country Pickin 120 bpm Country Shuffle 100 bpm Folk Arp 110 bpm Folk Pop 120 bpm Folk Rock 110 bpm Folk Swing 101 bpm Hip Hop 1 90 bpm Hip Hop 2 85 bpm Hip Hop 3 120 bpm Jazz Bossa Nova 2 120 bpm Jazz Bossa Nova 130 bpm Jazz Swing 120 bpm Latin 96 bpm Pop 16th Strums 90 bpm Pop Alternative 1 110 bpm Pop Alternative 2 120 bpm Pop Arp 1 100 bpm Pop Arp 2 100 bpm Pop Arp 3 115 bpm Pop Arp 4 94 bpm Pop Ballad 90 bpm Pop Daisy 88 bpm Pop Fast 130 bpm Pop Fast Tap 130 bpm Pop Flamingos 95 bpm Pop Indie 1 90 bpm Pop Indie 2 110 bpm 58 total…

Electric MIDI loop packs—301 loops in 43 packs Backstage Jam 80 bpm Black Metal 1 220 bpm Black Metal 2 220 bpm Blues 82 bpm Busy Funk 120 bpm Chorus Mood 3-8 80 bpm County Blues 6-8 74 bpm Crunchy Gerry 92 bpm Death Metal 1 220 bpm Death Metal 2 220 bpm Dirty Meal 95 bpm Djent 1 180 bpm Djent 2 180 bpm Doom Metal 1 90 bpm Doom Metal 2 90 bpm Dreamer 120 bpm Eclectic 110 bpm Fast Light Rock 130 bpm Ferdinand 130 bpm Hard Rock Day 88 bpm Heeyaa 115 bpm Hip Hop Swing 87 bpm House Funk 120 bpm Kids TV Show Shuffle 70 bpm Mellow Groove 12-8 110 bpm Mellow Mood 12-8 82 bpm Metal 1 160 bpm Metal 2 160 bpm Metal 3 Double-Time 145 bpm RNB 69 bpm 43 total…

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next · top § Playing guitar on a keyboard

has never been easier § Creating a realistic guitar track from samples is a tough job. Guitar players voice chords differently, strumming is not easily reproduced on a keyboard, and guitar players use all sort of techniques such as palm muting, scratching and sliding simply not available on a keyboard. Strum GS-2 now does all of this for you!

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

Strum on your keyboard Trigger down and upstrokes, scratches and mutes, or create picking patterns using the arpeggio keys. Articulation and expression Slide and bend with the pitch wheel or aftertouch. Add vibrato with the modulation wheel. Natural hammer-ons and pull-offs when playing leads.

next · top § Guitar craftsmanship § Have you ever had the chance to create your own guitar? Strum GS-2 allows you to do just that by controlling every aspect in the making of your instrument.

Picks and fingers Hand picking or playing an heavy riff? Use a pick that is rounded or sharp, stiff or soft. Dig into the strings or use a light touch, play near the bridge or towards the neck for an evolving tone. String by string Select material and natural decay for each string. Precise control of coupling and interactions at the bridge breath life into your tone with beating and organic envelopes. Pickups Whether they are single coils or humbuckers, pickups are a fundamental part of the electric guitar sound. They shape the whole instrument’s response and their multiple configurations give tremendous tone flexibility.

Body shopping The soundboard of a guitar radiates vibrations from the strings. Choose a body size to colour the sound with specific resonances and find the right character. Mutes and scratches As on a real guitar, strings interact with the players hands and frets. Fine tune your rhythm parts and rifs with palm muting, scratches, and hammer-ons.

next · top § Bare naked—All suited up § You’ll love the pure raw sound of Strum GS-2, but the built-in effects will bring it to so many places that you’ll enjoy having them on hand. And you have a chock-full of them to choose from: compressor, equalizer, delay, distortion, phaser, chorus, flanger, wah wah and notch filters, and reverb.

next · top § Tutorials § Learn more on how to use Strum GS-2

Keyboard, Guitar, and Loop modes

MIDI loops advanced techniques

More than one hour of tutorials A complete video series of tutorials on Strum GS-2 made in collaboration with Groove3. Learn all about the ergonomics, the modules, and the sound of our guitars. Watch all videos

next · top § Buzzing Around § The community has good things to say about Strum… Oustrip any sample-based guitar plug-in AAS Strum GS-2 is the most faithful reproduction of any acoustic guitar you can put on your computer desktop. Its performance features and the sound quality of its physical modeling far outstrip any sample-based guitar plug-in. Marty Cutler, Keyboard

Extremely expressive—5/6 Strum presents itself as an extremely expressive and playable instrument. Our test revealed very favorably the full sound and dynamic response of Strum. What's exremely impressive is the multitude of chords the program recognize. Mario Schumacher, Beat

Remarkably realistic The modelled sound is remarkably realistic, and with care and practice fairly convincing strummed and arpeggiated rhythm parts can be achieved, as well as expressive solo lines. Strum is entertaining and great fun to use, and a valid alternative to sample-based guitar emulations. Nick Magnus, Sound On Sound

Utterly convincing—4/5 Strum’s models are as good as it gets, and its accurate articulation and sophisticated chord voicing make it an utterly convincing chord-melody instrument, an excellent solo voice, and an agile accompanist. I recommend it highly. Marty Cutler, Electronic Musician Read More

next · top WINDOWS · MAC OS X · 32-/64-bit

§ VST · AU · RTAS · AAX Native · NKS · STANDALONE § Strum GS-2 is compatible with nearly all DAW s. Ableton Live

Apple GarageBand

Apple Logic Pro

Apple MainStage

Avid Pro Tools

Bitwig Bitwig Studio

BandLab Cakewalk

Cockos Reaper

Image-Line FL Studio

MOTU Digital Performer

Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol

Native Instruments Maschine

Presonus Studio One

Propellerhead Reason

Steinberg Cubase Mac minimum system requirements* Mac OS X 10.7 or later

Intel Core processor or later

512 MB of RAM

70 MB of free hard drive space PC minimum system requirements* Windows 7 32‑/64‑bit or later

Intel Core or equivalent processor

512 MB of RAM

70 MB of free hard drive space *The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).

Neat features Standalone operation for quick jams and experimentations

Real-time control over any parameters via your MIDI controller knobs, faders, and switches

MIDI clock, tap, and host tempo synchronization for effects and modulations

Relaxed editing with unlimited undo/redo capability

The benefits of physical modeling Sound manipulation at the source core

Presets load in a flash

Super smooth dynamics—no velocity layers!

Small memory footprint—less than 256 MB of RAM per instance

Installs in less than a minute