Strum Session

Your New Session Guitarist

Combines an acoustic and an electric guitar in the same package. With chord recognition, chord voicing, strumming and picking action, MIDI riff library, amp and effects, playing guitar on a keyboard has never been so easy.

Strum with MIDI loops

Use the collection of recorded strumming patterns over the chords you play and find inspiration for your track. drag and drop the loop to your host sequencer and make it perfect for you song.

The right voicings for the chords you know

Strum gs-2 chord library contains basic and extended chords available in open, movable, or drop voicings. play the chords you know and strum voices them automatically as a guitarist would.

Strum on your keyboard

Trigger down and upstrokes, scratches and mutes, or create picking patterns using the arpeggio keys.

Articulation and expression

Slide and bend with the pitch wheel or aftertouch. add vibrato with the modulation wheel. natural hammer-ons and pull-offs when playing leads.

The benefits of physical modeling

• Sound manipulation at the source core
• Presets load in a flash
• Super smooth dynamics—no velocity layers!
• Small memory footprint—less than 256 MB of RAM per instance
• Installs in less than a minute—less than 61 MB on disk

Presets

Acoustic

• Dreadnought
• Nylon
• Dreadnought Smooth
• Dreadnought Bright
• Dreadnought Lite Bright
• Dreadnought Swooshy
• Dreadnought FX
• Dreadnought Mellow Dynamic
• Nylon Bright
• Nylon Mellow
• Nylon FX
• Nylon Dynamic

Electric

• Shinny Electric
• Twangy Trem
• Amped Jazz
• Stingy
• Warm Crunch 1
• Warm Crunch 2
• Shred 1
• Shred 2
• Ballistic Squeeze
• Maxed Out 1
• Maxed Out 2
• Maxed Out 3

System Requirements

WINDOWS · 64bit · MAC OS X · 64bit · VST · AU · RTAS · AAX NATIVE · STANDALONE

AAS products are compatible with nearly all DAWs...

• Ableton Live
• Apple GarageBand
• Apple Logic Pro
• Apple Mainstage
• Avid Pro Tools
• Bitwig Studio
• Bandlab Cakewalk
• Cockos Reaper
• Image-Line FL Studio
• MOTU Digital Performer
• Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol
• Native Instruments Maschine
• PreSonus Studio One
• Propellerhead Reason
• Steinberg Cubase

Mac minimum system requirements*

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1 processor or later
• 64-bit DAW

PC minimum system requirements*

• Windows 10 64‑bit or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) processor or later
• 64-bit DAW

Note: The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plugin usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Sonar, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).

Important note: When accessing this software via a Rent to Own plan or the Beatport Studio membership, it's installed and run through the Beatport Access portal. An internet connection is required every 30 days to validate your license.