Natural hammer-ons and pull-offs when playing leads. Articulation and expression - Slide and bend with the pitch wheel or aftertouch.Play the chords you know and Strum voices them automatically as a guitarist would. 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.

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

Drag and drop the loop to your host sequencer and make it perfect for you song. Strum with MIDI loops - Use the vast collection of recorded strumming patterns over the chords you play and find inspiration for your track.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. Strum GS-2 is a plug-in for the production of guitar tracks. The instrument features 200 different acoustic and electric guitars, including nylon, steel, single coil and humbucker fitted pickups, clean, crunchy, and distorted. However,if you are looking to improvise jazz movements, then manually played chords will be necessary.Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on Strum Session 2, a virtual guitar instrument by Applied Acoustics Systems. This would be a good alternative when using AGM. I change the chords with a sustain pedal. This provides me a pad background, while playing a lead on guitar. Piano will sound better than a poorly played guitar backing.ĭave Dore’s chord player will allow you to trigger a chord without having to manually play the chords, if you want to go that route. So, if you are looking for just the strumming background, it is possible with AGM, just pay attention to play legato, or it will be “choppy” at best.

Realism takes much research and practice. Example: If you know nothing about a brass section, and how the instruments are played, the outcome will sound like a keyboard. Quite honestly, if you are emulating any instrument on keyboard, it is best to really learn a lot about the particular instrument. There are videos of people making these types of VSTs work real well, but there is quite a challenging learning curve to it. I tried using this in a 3-piece band, but unless you are willing to play to a click, it will get away from you. I presume the strumming pattern will have to be pre-set for each piece of music.

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