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Gary McCoy
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July 13, 15 3:44 PM (permalink)

Strum upgrade

Anyone taken advantage of the $49 upgrade to the full Strum GS-2 package?  If so, how would you rate it?
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    synkrotron
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    Re: Strum upgrade July 13, 15 4:22 PM (permalink)
    I use the full Strum... Had it for a while.
     
    It depends what you want to do. I think that for lead guitar stuff, there are better solutions out there...

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    Re: Strum upgrade July 13, 15 5:56 PM (permalink)
    I have used the full strum for about two months. I love it.
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    Re: Strum upgrade July 14, 15 9:51 AM (permalink)
    I also upgraded to GS2 before in was included in Sonar, and like it quite a bit. A huge improvement from Strummer. The 'guitar' editing is quite extensive (I don't edit as the sounds are well done-but for the pick choices) and the effects in the program sound good too, so I use those (compressor/reverb). 
     
    I did contact support to find out something I wanted to do that I couldn't find in the manual, and always got a reply the next day.
     
    There were several places I wanted a different position on the neck for a certain chord.
    I learned how to create an envelope in Sonar for GS2 and program in the fret position I wanted in that particular spot. Many other GS2 options in programing available once I found out how to do this.
     
    I'll detail this if someone wants to know.

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    gswitz
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    Re: Strum upgrade July 14, 15 9:55 PM (permalink)
    I would like it if there was a setting to have the strum acoustic chord graphic linger until the next chord is played and remain when the transport stops.

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    Re: Strum upgrade October 13, 15 4:38 PM (permalink)
    A week in and I'm still on the fence when asked if I'd recommend the $49 upgrade. The Sonar Platinum freebie seems "A LOT" more friendly to velocity. I didn't fully understand the PROMO that clearly stated their was none. I'm very used to velocity "expression" in an instrument and find myself running back to NI samples where I can affect even pitch with velocity. The "Guitar Mode" is significantlying more difficult to use than VIR2's Electri6ity but it's almost 10x the price so maybe it's not a fair comparison. Thus, I'm still on the fence. This is almost like learning to play a new instrument which I'm not sure I'm up to. More to follow ; (
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