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.
 
 

I am glad you found a use for it. This is the one plug I don't use at all. I tried experimenting with it a little but being a guitar player, bass player, drummer. I have no use for it. I am glad they included it for keyboard players. It looks like it would be fun to mess around with if I had better keyboard skills.
 
I will need to try your tip about making a copy of a midi track and placing it into strum acoustic just to get the chord names. That is useful. Thanks for the tip.

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!

glad I clicked on this thread so now I know something that would make sonar a must use for live work and can teach my friends this and be the hero. Live use needs to be addressed more because if your going to play live it would help to have your DAW live with you to pull off the same exact settings on plugins and vsti's. 

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!
 

Mark the date on a calendar. When you can give Craig a tip he doesn't know about you should play the lottery of your choice.

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...

i wish the included midi fx chord analyzer plugin worked right, but it's always one chord ahead... other than that it's fairly accurate.