No Brainer #2

Passing another AudioMidi NO BRAINER ON...

They currently have the Applied Acoustics Strum GS-1 ($199.00)
for $20.00 and are currently giving 15 percent off..making it $17.00

Enjoy!!

cclarry


Passing another AudioMidi NO BRAINER ON...

They currently have the Applied Acoustics Strum GS-1 ($199.00)
for $20.00 and are currently giving 15 percent off..making it $17.00

Enjoy!!

Where I can buy it?


Peace.

As confucious say....there are no stupid question...onry stupd answer..

Thanks for the heads up but after listening to the samples I wouldn't take it if it was free and came with $17.

Mike 

I think AAS products are great for a person with a lot of free time on their hands to truly master programming their products.  The presets are very lackluster and do not truly show-off the products' full abilities.  i bit on a no brainer deal for the VS-1  strings. Not a total waste..but mostly waste.  i can see the potential to the unique way they form string and plucked sounds, but it just does not pan out as well in actual practice.

I got it today and I am impressed.

I have to agree...the presets are REALLY BAD...

But if you do some tweaking you can get some usable material...

for $17.00 I won't complain....if I had paid $199....

That's a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY!!!

I agree with John on this. I am speaking from a non guitarist point of view of course. So if you non guitarists are wondering can this thing do what you think it might be able to do the answer is a definite yes. It is going to get you out of trouble if you need some guitar parts and don't have a guitarist handy.

The sounds are fine and quite wide ranging and when you start using amp and cab simulators as well it takes on a whole new sound anyway. I have even done some reamping through a Marshall amp and it can sound very convincing. Treat it as you would any guitar part. Use the other tools you have available to enhance a guitar sound and it can sound excellent.

It comes with a sequencer thingy too for putting progressions into. It voices in a very realistic guitar like manner and like anything if you put the time into it you will get a lot out of it. It comes with a pretty detailed manual too.

My challenge is to make tracks that sound like huge metal style wall of guitar sounds for a production library. I have not done it yet but this is going to help a long way to getting there. And for $20 well who can complain.

AAS stuff is excellent and I don't agree with those who say their presets (for any of their plugins) are not great. It is the opposite in fact. Their presets are quite stunning and can be very inspiring. Sure you can put time into programming and learn how to alter and create sounds but there are also many great sounds to get you started with as well. The VS-1 Strings is an amazing plugin too. It depends who you are talking to doesn't it.

It's kind of weird because I actually like my Torch and my EEG very much but I think THE GUI on Strum is so much better laid out...but the demos suck.  I may give it a try at this price.  Dunno.  Gotta ponder.

tomixornot:  Thanks very much for posting these two audio/mp3 examples.  This helps.  I remain conflicted because the first few rounds sounded decent, and I was surprised that it really sounded like a clean guitar.  However, as the settings moved into more distortion presets, it sounded more and more like a clavinet being run through some stomp boxes or high gain amps.  I downloaded the demo and will give it a try and see if perhaps those early presets in your first example might sound even better ran through Scuffham's S-Gear and also through Amplitube.  I hope that it would give those clean sounds some overdrive without falling into a distorted clav sound.  I actually liked the clean tones and they might find use by me.


BTW my comment that it sounds like a clavinet with effects is not a statement about your playing, but rather on the tone of the aas presets.  


Again, thanks this really made me want to download and test it through some amp sims.


Cecelius2

tomixornot


I was making a video on various sounds with the build in patterns, but the screen capture soon got too large, and have to abort.. the audio is also a bit large for my soundclick account, so I just put it as mp3 file download if you like to hear it.

The first file :
http://www.mediafire.com/?6p9s3mao2yf5ohd

is from the Strum GS-1 Electric, running demo patterns, as I click through various presets.

The second file :
http://www.mediafire.com/?81yuwlabydzork4

is using the same patterns but using the Strum Acoustic Session (as sold in Cake store for 19/= for a long time) as sound module, first the nylon, then the steel.

The Acoustic Session does not have a midi pattern playback option, but can use midi patterns dragged out from the GS-1 Electric. It also cannot handle some pitch bend generated by the GS-1, so the demo is shorter.