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

Thanks Carl,
 
After watching the video I had to snatch it for $46. It is a quick 1GB download.
 
This should make for a very quick way of putting a scratch track together on the laptop.

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.

I like the older Acoustic Guitar Collection with Strummaker III. Nice and simple. I mostly use the manual Strum Maker Live function however as I think its easier to get a real groove going that way compaired to the step-sequencer type of function.
 
I wonder if there is a "live" function in StrumMaker IV

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

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

I don't know but I'd email him.
Maybe he'd consider it if asked or if enough were interested in it.
 
Having fun & it will come in handy for certain projects. For kicks I quickly tried each of Waves artist series guitar plugins with it along with FF MB Steel string preset. With some minor tweaking I got some nice results.

Where's the $10 upgrade from III?

Well, this post clued me into the fact that the song I'm working on could sure use some acoustic strumming.
 
Soooooo I pulls up Strum Maker III and low and behold it did what I wanted in nothing flat. 

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.

I check out the PDF manual. On the face of it it looks like a significant improvment.
The  "strummaker live" type functions are still there on the green and blue zones of the keyboard, so you can manually trigger your up and down strokes. What looks like a big step forward is the chord variations on the black zone.
 

Key Switches

BLACK

Low octave (C0-B0) These key switches remotely control the Variation Knob, so you can

change from a major to a minor or diminished or whatever, so you have instant access to any

of 144 chords at any moment in your sequence.

C 0 = Major

C# 0 = Minor

D 0 = 7th

D# 0 = Minor 7th

E 0 = Major 7th

F 0 = Diminished

F# 0 =Augmented

G 0 = Sus 4

G# 0 = Bar

A 0 = Power Chord 1

A# 0 = Power Chord 2

B 0 = User Chord (actually, all chords in SM4 can be customized)

BLACK

High octave (C4-B4) These key switches control the Capo, or transpose function.

Just hit these keys and watch the capo move up the neck!

 
This overcomes a big limitation in Strummaker III were only 12 chords could be specified. Its a different approch to the chord detection methods used by Musiclab and Orange Tree but probably easire if you are not a keyboard player with a good knowledge of chord fingering.
 
It would be nice if Strummaker 4 could be used with ACC and Torch.