That one of this instrument’s strength is as a riff generator, Notch, Equalizer, or Compressor) from their drop-down menus. Phaser, Vintage Chorus, Chorus, Flanger, Tremolo, Auto Wah, Wah Wah, Note that each of twoĮffects “slots” offer one of 12 effects (Delay, Distortion, Welcome, and the effects are excellent anyway. Within the plug-in itself is convenient, the MIDI Learn options are Your DAW probably has plug-ins, but having effects The Strum GS-2 effects page provides guitar-friendly effects like an equalizer, compressor, distortion, tremolo, and reverb.ĭeep effects page. Programs covered here, a demo version is available so you can try You also don’t get the disadvantages of samples. Although the sound isn’t quite as authentic as samples, Strings or all strings, and interpolate characteristics among The Editing options are super-cool-you can even alterĬharacteristics of each virtual string, copy to other individual You may not feel the need to venture into deep editing. Page is pretty deep for non-tweakers, there are enough presets that Simple matter to dial it back for a gentler attack. Sounds, but the pick attack was too prominent for my taste.
For example, I wanted to use one of the nylon string guitar Types, over 200 presets, and an Edit page where the sound designĪspects really shine-for example, you can change pickup types forĮlectrics, the body type of acoustics, string and pick parameters,Įtc. The GS-2 Edit page offers significant editing capabilities – this is most definitely not about sampled guitar sounds. Strum Session isn’t just about creating riffs it’s a solid virtual guitar instrument that reminds me of the late, great Creamware Six-String. After all, for some songs I like to sample my guitar and play it from keyboards, and the modeling-based approach is refreshing compared to sample-based guitar. Since I double on keyboards, it’s actually not so bizarre to be a guitar player playing a modeled guitar instrument.
#Lounge lizard session vs ep4 full#
So the first time I really put it through its paces was with the full version. After all, I play guitar, and thought Strum Session was mostly about generating riffs (although I have used it to detect MIDI Chords-a very useful, and probably under-appreciated, talent). Over the years they’ve also added updates for functionality like VST3 compatibility.Īlthough a “lite” version of Strum Session was bundled with Cakewalk Sonar back in the day, I never really checked it out much. Although these instruments have been out for a while (except for the VS-3, which updated the VS-2 in late 2018), one reason why it’s well worth re-visiting these instruments is because they are compatible with Native Instruments’ NKS (Native Kontrol System). This review covers the various instruments that make up their Modeling Collection bundle: Lounge Lizard EP-4 electric piano, Ultra Analog VA-2 virtual analog synth, Strum GS-2 electric and acoustic guitar virtual instrument/riff generator, Chromaphone 2 acoustic object synthesizer, String Studio VS-3, and Objeq Delay acoustic filter and delay. As a side note,Ĭurrent A|A|S programs are strong on “MIDI Learn” for those who Also because no samples load into memory, presets openĪlmost instantly although more voices require more CPU power, withĪ|A|S’s instruments CPU drain is very reasonable. Have substantial editing options-just change aspects of theĪlgorithm. Limitations like velocity/sample splits don’t exist, and sounds can
This isn’t necessarily a better/worse situation, but modeling provides a lot of latitude in terms of editing, and is kind of like the audio equivalent of CGI graphics in that it can produce “idealized” as well as realistic sounds.Īlgorithms to create sounds on-the-fly. I’ve always liked A|A|S (Applied Acoustic Systems) instruments, starting with their now-discontinued Tassman modular synthesizer back in 2000, because they’ve gone down the modeling road instead of the sampling one.
We’ll cover the five instruments and delay effect that make up the complete collection.
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