Here we have some of the significant improvements over the earlier versions of Strum. These are identical for both personalities. Irrespective of the acoustic/electric personality at hand, there are three modes of playing: keyboard, strumming and looping. Further down the line, we also have available effects to consider, but we’ll get to effects later. For electric, we have pick-up characteristics. For acoustic, we have body characteristics that are pertinent. The other things being modelled depend upon which personality is being represented. In addition to that just mentioned, Strum has two personalities: acoustic and electric. If the last few terms are not familiar, it’s because they are from the realm of guitar playing technique. Modelling guitars involves a variety of things being modelled: string characteristics, pick characteristics, hammer-on/pull-off characteristics, palm and mute characteristics. Also, AAS has several instructional videos that nicely demonstrate what’s involved here. Better yet, download the excellent documentation for a thorough explanation. I suggest you read the earlier review if interested. In particular, the information on how authentic guitar playing (strumming, specifically) has been adapted to keyboard input is inspired but somewhat involved. I am not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the same material. We looked in depth at the earlier instruments in a SoundBytes Magazine review appearing in March of 2014. It replaces two separate earlier instruments: Strum Acoustic and Strum Electric and consolidates the two flavors of guitars into one tidy package. Strum GS-2 (hereafter just Strum for brevity) offers both acoustic and electric guitar sound production in a single instrument. Upon looking closer, however, you will discover much to get excited about. Upon first glance for those familiar with the predecessor instruments, it might look like this was little more than a consolidation of two earlier instruments with a pretty new interface. Strum GS-2 combines them both with plenty of new capabilities on offer.ĪAS, the wizards of sound production through mathematical modelling, have upgraded yet another of their instruments, and make no mistake, this is a very significant upgrade.

AAS has released an upgrade to its already excellent Strum Acoustic and Strum Electric instruments.

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