Reid Rosefelt
aka Tiger the Frog
Anybody who is curious about AAS should download their free player, SWATCHES. It currently comes with 590+ presets, taken from every expansion pack they sell, including some from Chromaphone 3. (Every time they release a new sound pack they add 8 presets from it to Swatches.)
You can't tweak the sounds, but you can hear what all these instruments sound like, and in the case of Strum GS-2, how to play them. In its case, you play chords in the middle and change patterns with key switches.
EDIT: I find GS-2 to be much more responsive to quick changes than most other guitar VIs, which force you to be on the beat or bar. Therefore it is more immediately playable. But, it's debatable how its modeled sounds match up to sampled ones. Some of them IMHO are really nice, but it's a question of personal taste. Anyway, you can hear them in Swatches.
Also, all AAS instruments are NKS, so you can get tremendous control if you have an NI keyboard.
You can't tweak the sounds, but you can hear what all these instruments sound like, and in the case of Strum GS-2, how to play them. In its case, you play chords in the middle and change patterns with key switches.
EDIT: I find GS-2 to be much more responsive to quick changes than most other guitar VIs, which force you to be on the beat or bar. Therefore it is more immediately playable. But, it's debatable how its modeled sounds match up to sampled ones. Some of them IMHO are really nice, but it's a question of personal taste. Anyway, you can hear them in Swatches.
Also, all AAS instruments are NKS, so you can get tremendous control if you have an NI keyboard.
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