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Applied Acoustics Systems Strum GS-2 Virtual Guitar

Virtual Guitar Plug-in with Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Automatic Chord Recognition, Chord Voicings, Integrated Strumming and Picking, MIDI Riff Library, Guitar Amps, and FX - Mac/PC Standalone, AAX Native, VST, AU, RTAS
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If you're using Pro Tools, AAX plug-ins (or RTAS for older versions) are what you need. Most other Mac DAWs support AU plug-ins. VST is compatible with a number of Mac and Windows programs. Be sure you choose plug-ins that work with your DAW!

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Play Guitar, Right From Your Keyboard

Use a keyboard for DAW input? Want realistic-sounding guitars? Applied Acoustics designed their Strum GS-2 plug-in expressly for the production of guitar tracks. Strum GS-2 gives you a massive arsenal of acoustic and electric guitars, along with automatic chord recognition, advanced chord voicings, integrated strumming and picking, a MIDI riff library, guitar amps and FX, and more. Whether your guitar part calls for power chords, delicate arpeggios, or searing leads, with Applied Acoustics Strum GS-2, playing guitar on a keyboard has never been easier.

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Guitars, amps, effects, and more

Applied Acoustics Strum GS-2 stokes your arsenal with more than 200 guitars, including nylon and steel-string acoustics, and electrics with single-coil and humbucking pickups. You've got clean, crunchy, and distorted tones, a 2-channel amplifier, spring reverb, speaker cabinets, and effects. Also onboard are 102 MIDI riffs that cover a range of genres. Sweetwater musicians agree: if you use a keyboard/DAW setup and want great-sounding, realistic virtual guitar, you need Applied Acoustics Strum GS-2.

Applied Acoustics Strum GS-2 Features at a Glance:
  • Standalone operation for quick jams and experimentations
  • Real-time control over any parameters via your MIDI controller knobs, faders, and switches
  • MIDI clock, tap, and host tempo synchronization for effects and modulations
  • Relaxed editing with unlimited undo/redo capability
  • Enjoy the benefits of physical modeling:
    • Sound manipulation at the source core
    • Presets load in a flash
    • Smooth dynamics - no velocity layers
    • Small memory footprint: less than 256MB of RAM per instance
    • Installs in less than a minute (less than 32MB on disk)
Get realistic guitar parts with Applied Acoustics Strum GS-2!

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Tech Specs

  • Software Type: Virtual Guitar library
  • Platform: Mac, PC
  • Upgrade/Full: Full
  • Download/Boxed: Download
  • Bit Depth: 64-bit
  • Format: Standalone, AAX Native, VST, AU, NKS
  • Hardware Requirements - Mac: Intel Core i5 5th Gen or later (M1 processor compatible), 4GB RAM or more recommended
  • Hardware Requirements - PC: Intel Core i5 5th Gen or later, 4GB RAM or more recommended
  • OS Requirements - Mac: OS X 10.11 or later
  • OS Requirements - PC: Windows 10 or later
  • Manufacturer Part Number: AA-GS2

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This virtual Instrument is great as it adds another professional session guitarist for your recording

I always ask my Sweetwater Sales Tech, Mike conyers before I purchase anything, as I trust his and the folks at Sweetwater's judgement and reccomendations implicitly! He said that I would not be disappointed with AAS GS-2 Strum and he was right on target, as I am thrilled with this product. I use it all the time and the quality of the instrumentation and playing caoability for my recording sessions is first class. Thanks to my Sales Tech, Mike Conyers for the affirmation and to the folks at AAS for producing a super product!
by Mike from Missouri on

More Than What I Expected

Wow! This product is as advertised and extremely easy to use. You get acoustic and electric guitars to use in your songs and they sound so good! It doesn't take long to figure out how the phrasing and get to producing your next hit. Just buy it! You won't be disappointed!
by Stacey Young on

Strum GS-2 Virtual Guitar

Had kept my eye on this plugin for some time. Very impressed with the realistic sound. Very easy to tweak the sound of the guitar using the GUI. Plugin worked flawlessly with Cakewalk Sonar Professional (I know, I'm looking for another DAW, but have used Cakewalk for years.) The price was right for such quality.
by Robert Morgan from New Jersey on
Music background: 50+ years guitar and some keyboard

Strum rocks the (bleep)!

My existing guitar resources felt increasingly static, so I settled on Strum because it covers both acoustic and electric guitars quite well. It has a small footprint because its a physical modeler, but its highly convincing. It sometimes sounds almost too clean, but the clarity of the model, broad tuning options and well-appointed effects deliver the goods. It took a couple of programming sessions for me to get a handle on its voice, but its scary-broad.

Your DAW may have beefier effects, but the ones AAS provides are impressive. The distortion in particular is well-tuned, from whisper to growl.
I bought M-Tron Pro because there is no way to really get that unique character unless you go to the headwaters. Strum does the same for guitars. It breathes in a way not heard from plugs that rely on stacks of WAV files. Its been 100% stable in use, too.

I'm not about to attempt a fake Christopher Parkening or Joe Satriani stance, but for lead soloing jobs or nice acoustic duets, Strum neatly takes over where the few basic sounds from bundles fall short. It hands you essentially all of the guitars you're likely to need.
by David on
Music background: Semi-pro in places, dedicated hobbyist elsewhere

GREAT Software !

Easy to use, great sounding and fun !

I use Strum for a bunch of types of music... everything from song forms to "clouds of sound" type "avant garde" electronic music. Works best in a pop song format (which is what it's designed for, I believe).
I use MIDI files derived from EZ Keys, slide that into a Pro Tools instrument track and then open Strum as the instrument. Strum follows the MIDI chord changes perfectly with some interesting chord voicing (transposed for a guitar player style, 6 strings and 4 fingers unless you use your thumb).

The sounds are glorious, clean acoustics and cool electrics, plus some deep editing if you so desire.
The three play modes are available,
"Keyboard" plays back what you play but constrains it to the guitar fingerboard.
"Guitar" allows both chords and single note play at the same time.
"Loop Mode" is MIDI style playback with hundreds of styles (I use this mode mostly)
The editing is so deep that you could get lost editing a single guitar sound and picking responses per string !

I highly recommend this software for anyone that has somewhat negligible guitar skills, or that just wants great sounding guitar sounds and parts. (I don't own an acoustic guitar so this works great for me)
by David Hayden from Palm Springs on
Music background: Retired Profesional
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