AAS Strum GS-2 is out!

[hivkorn]

With its picks, bows, hammers, fingers, frets, dampers, and soundboards, it is a unique blend of acoustic modeling and regular synth-control features—you won’t believe how crazy you can go with a simple string.
Sorta like Image Lines Sakura

I've just play 5 minutes with String Studio VS-2 i love it really much , i had sakura in the past and i never love it too much , it was really buggy it was crashing my cubase 5 essential everytime i use it and i remember i don't love a lot the sound it does , but i feel really in love with String Studio VS-2...
thx fluffy_little_something to make me discover it !

[boombaxx]

A lot for 39 bucks sound great in my songs. Never been a fan of PM but this sounds good

[Karma_tba]

With its picks, bows, hammers, fingers, frets, dampers, and soundboards, it is a unique blend of acoustic modeling and regular synth-control features—you won’t believe how crazy you can go with a simple string.
Sorta like Image Lines Sakura

I've just play 5 minutes with String Studio VS-2 i love it really much , i had sakura in the past and i never love it too much , it was really buggy it was crashing my cubase 5 essential everytime i use it and i remember i don't love a lot the sound it does , but i feel really in love with String Studio VS-2...
thx fluffy_little_something to make me discover it !

Sorry U didn't like Sakura....oh well U have SS V2........anyway I was just referring to the modeling of a string.

[fluffy_little_something]

Just did a minimalist pattern, just three tracks, one of which a String Studio guitar, which sounds pleasant in the mix, better than any of my Sylenth guitar patches, but Sylenth was good enough for the lead

https://app.box.com/s/2gjhv9vgrjo97tph4p5d2v4b5gcvwqoz

[Fleer]

I just love AAS instruments. Chromaphone, String Studio, Strum, Virtual Analog and Lounge Lizard are all top notch because they're modeled and allow you to play around like on a real instruments. In fact, that's how they feel like: real instruments, yet often otherworldly.

[fluffy_little_something]

Indeed, they sound very natural, must have been a lot of work to program all those tiny details emulating real noise such as frets etc.
I have just been playing around with some of the preset basses in String Studio, now there is a synth that has bottom

[fluffy_little_something]

Discovered something odd in String Studio: when I go down to the lowest 1.5 octaves or so, the pitch interval gets lost and the sounds are weird, shorter and more percussive. I am not sure, yet, whether that is intentional or a bug, though. Since the sound changes arbitrarily, I assume it is not intended.

[Spitfire31]

It's a common characteristic of certain physical modelling instruments that some patches are not playable over more than a limited range.

/Joachim

[fluffy_little_something]

Ah, OK, didn't know that
Does it also happen with normal synths? I know two synths where something similar happens, namely below a certain note the pitch increases again as I go further down on the keyboard.

[Spitfire31]

I can't recall having come across a 'normal' (what's that, after all? non-physical modelling?) synth that behaves 'irrationally' in that way. But perhaps there are?

/Joachim

[fluffy_little_something]

Yes, non-modeling, I suppose.
SuperWave's Tarkus and Sirius display odd behavior as well.

[fmr]

MISTAKE

[fluffy_little_something]

That's a symptom of aliasing.

I don't know if aliasing can be that strong, it sounds like there is simply something wrong with the oscillator pitch...