Native Instruments Strummed Acoustic Crack
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Strummed Acoustic is a tightly targeted product. It perhaps will not deal with all your acoustic guitar needs, but for polished, consistent, strummed acoustic parts with an absolute minimum of fuss, this is great value for money.
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A 1973 Martin D-35 acoustic guitar was deeply multisampled to create Native Instruments' Session Guitarist - Strummed Acoustic - an 8GB generator of strummed riffs and rhythms for Kontakt and Kontakt Player.
The gamut of acoustic guitar styles is covered, and the library "does not employ traditional timestretching, but is based on a far more sophisticated technical backbone and recordings in multiple tempos". And it's paid off, as Strummed Acoustic sounds convincingly 'real' at anywhere from around 60-200bpm (depending on the Pattern).
Selecting patterns is done in the Pattern Browser, which has filters for playing/sound characteristics (Open, Muted, Mixed, Hard and Soft) and rhythmic base (3/4, 4/4, Triplets), plus Similar pattern and Rhythm Search functions to put specific pattern styles at the top of the list.
Strummed Acoustic divides the keyboard up into Pattern keyswitches, Endings, Pickups and the three-octave note/chord playing area. Pretty much any chord you can throw at it is recognised, and an easy-to-use Auto Chords mode is available for one-fingered play.
Transitions between chords and patterns are always perfectly in sync with the playback position, while the Endings and Pickups offer various one-shot strums and palm hits for playing at the ends of patterns or in transition between them.
The Session Guitarist series returns with STRUMMED ACOUSTIC 2 putting the pure sound of two vintage acoustic guitars at your fingertips. The iconic 6- and 12-string guitars were played by skilled session musicians and captured in painstaking detail by our friends at drumasonic ( ). The result is a versatile, superbly playable Kontakt instrument that lends itself perfectly to almost any production task. Check out these demo tracks to hear the range and the realism. For more: www.native-instruments.com/strummedacoustic2