My favorite included plug I would NEVER have asked for...

I'm a guitarist and the idea of midi guitar sounds is a little silly for me. If I want guitar, I play one.
 
But Strum Guitar is new, so I copied the pad midi track and ran it to Strum Guitar to hear it...
 
And there we have it... the name of the chords being played!! Without me having to type them in!
 
This is handy because it turns out I don't always play the right chords (shhhhh).
 
And once the chords are all inline and you have 32 bars of steadily changing progression, I can play wildly, and look down and know right where I am in the music.
 
And this is why a plug I never would have guessed I needed becomes a staple in the kit.
 
 

Agreed. As a guitar player this seemed like something for the non guitar players. That's definitely an interesting idea. I'll give it a try!

Wow, what a great tip!
 
I had no idea. I could have really used that when doing the chord progression for my cover of "Poison." The chords are all over the place and to make things worse, I transposed from the original to hit my vocal range, so I was always transposing mentally. I have a feeling this tip will come in VERY handy in the future. Thank you!
 

I discovered this the other day too. I sometimes write parts by ear in the PRV that sound very "out there" harmonically speaking, and most of the time I don't have a clue what the chords are name wise. I could work it out slowly, but dragging one of these parts over to Strum Acoustic was happy to see the names come up. From there, I found it much easier to come up with a guitar part to fit this oddball chord progression. Turns out I use a lot of sus2 chords in my piano roll parts...