Strings and Keys has 2 sections, Straight 3/4 and Straight 4/4. 3/4 has Alt Americana loops in it and 4/4 has Indie Pop, Retro Ballad, 60's Pop, 70's Pop,Classic Rock, Retro Rock and Indie Rock all in the usual Intro, Chorus, Bridge ect format. The Strings section has counter parts to everything in the Keys section. I opened EZ Keys in X3 and Sampletank3 for the string midi. I had them on the same midi channel and could play along with the one I had selected. The strings are like the keys as each variation get a little more "notey".I tried Miroslav which sounded good and SampleMoog. The Therimen sounded very "Ed Wood but worked with the midi. Electric guitar worked well with some of the patches some didn't. Tron flutes and strings sounded good. Basically you have a parallel thing that kind of dances around the keys part like strings, woodwinds and brass would. You can use the strings midi for piano too and they work just fine . Easy to put a little right hand along with it and make it your own. It should be more usable than the jazz and latin packs for most. If I didn't own it now, with just about 30 min of using it, I would get it. I look forward to trying it with Session Strings and Horns. This is a good one with unexpected versatility. I was concerned it would be so specific it wouldn't be very usable. It's not. I tried the Country pack too and liked it. Other than some B Bender, hamer-on type things in the piano technique it didn't stick out as overly country. Should be a good one to have. That's all there is.... there ain't no more.

Thanks very much for that review.  I'd been thinking about grabbing a few packs, now I know I'm in.

Thanks BD for that review.......looks like another good one to add to my collection of 1 (latin pack) :)

Indeed, great review, thanks. Glad we don't need Mellotoon to use with this pack, as they were launched as a pair.

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Indeed, great review, thanks. Glad we don't need Mellotoon to use with this pack, as they were launched as a pair.

Yup, that was my concern.

I finally had a reason to try my old Miroslav Phiharmonik with this and guess what? It wouldn't work...I had to re-install MP and now my sounds are gone. Guess I'll have to re-buy those from IK if I want to try them. I'll pull up Dimension Pro and play with it instead...I'm not going to put new money into old software. Irritating.

Ow Clint, bad news. Did you do this with Miroslav in Sampletank 3 ?

No. Sample tank 2.5 32 bit. I don't ever use this kind of stuff anyway...no big loss.
 

I'll go try and see if it works with Miroslav in ST3.