Indiginus | StrumMaker IV Acoustic Updated 1.4

 

 
A bright and beautiful new acoustic guitar
library with our new StrumMaker IV strum
engine. Easily create your own chords and
strumming patterns.
Includes a separate instrument
for playing leads and picking parts.
 
Create acoustic guitar strumming tracks quickly and easily with our new StrumMaker IV strumming engine. Choose from preset patterns that you can customize, and choose from the available preset chords that you can customize instantly- simply by clicking on the fretboard. Then transpose your chords with the capo! With the Strum Sequencer, you can choose from 1 to 16 steps and choose the note resolution to match your host's tempo.  You can chain up to 8 patterns together.
 
Kontakt 4+
$46.00 USD
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyN6hrZ98XM
 
http://indiginus.com/StrumMaker4.html

Same here.
I'm also curious to find out how this will sit in a mix & used along with 'real' guitars for doubling.

I use his Solid State Symphony for creating projects all the time too.
It's one of my favorite vi's for writing.

Don't suppose there's a version of just Strum Maker IV that works with the older Acoustic Guitar Collection is there??
 

Where's the $10 upgrade from III?

Well for $46 clams I decided to go for it. The interface looks better and it looks to be better scripting than SM III.
 
I'll give her a whirl tomorrow on the tracks I created today to see if I like the sound mo betterer.

It looks like Strummaker 4 will be availble for ACC and Torch, but not just yet.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=380422

I was able to save some user assigned chord changes by doing a save-as in kontakt 5 and saving it as a different instrument. I have not tried to change the patterns yet but I am hoping that same process would work that way also. I did struggle with coming up with a detailed naming convention though...
 
I did save a Sonar project with the user chords changed and it opened back up with the changes intact so that might also be a temporary solution.

Well, while not a review, I can tell you that I am already wishing there were many more user chord slots available than the 12 allotted.  I can kinda get around this by having multiple instances of SM-4 in the Kontakt rack and changing the midi channel for each.
 
The thing I am really enjoying is how easy it is to voice your user chords and you can select which/how many of the six strings will be played in that chord just by clicking a button on/off for each string located at the nut.
 
There is also a button below the fretboard you can click that will show all of the notes names on the fretboard which makes it real easy to select which notes to include in your user chord voicing. Also one for midi note numbers but I have not yet found that as useful.
 
The guitar samples themselves sound pretty darn good without any EQ or effects applied although I only spent a couple of hours playing with it using AKG 240S headphones. The really cool thing is that I did it on a laptop using the mouse clicking on the keyboard within Kontakt, No external keyboard was required...
 
While subjective, So far I feel like I will definitely get my money back from the investment and Tracey has been very good to deal with and keeping things updated.
 
So have you placed your order yet? 

Alright...wait till I've finished my coffee and Sunday paper, will ya?

rtucker55
I was able to save some user assigned chord changes by doing a save-as in kontakt 5 and saving it as a different instrument. I have not tried to change the patterns yet but I am hoping that same process would work that way also. I did struggle with coming up with a detailed naming convention though...
 
I did save a Sonar project with the user chords changed and it opened back up with the changes intact so that might also be a temporary solution.

Just tried it, the instrument maintains the sequences as well. I'm saving the instrument separately per song & into the project folder.
I noticed you can assign the mod wheel ( learn midi cc) to a note on the fretboard to turn it on/ off. 
Also using the non ks white keys on/off rather quickly & at random (C5+up) slightly interrupts & chokes the pattern so you can subtly break up the strum randomness a bit that way too.
 
Now I need a find way to ks through the orb to select sequences, latch & note values.
 
 
 

I received email back from Tracy yesterday saying he might consider my feature suggestion for using ks for seq patters, latch & note values.
 
If you can please email him & ask for these too (esp. the ability to ks or change pattern seq)
It's a feature that's really needed.
 
Contact via support here-
http://indiginus.com/support.html
 

I dun dun it two.

thanks ol'pal & baps
 
The Manuel comes with the vihuela guitar pack.

Oh the influence I have..... If I could only get the bakers to include that kazoo VSTi in the next release I'd feel like a god.

yorolpal
Whoo hoo.  I'm sure when Tracey finally got an email from "The Bapu" the trembling, quaking and genuflecting started getting mighty heavy in Indiginus world.  Keyswitches, Mlud???  Why yes, Mlud...Of course, Mlud!!  At once, Mlud!!! :-)
 
 

And I believe it will be a free update too.