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We've just released the Synchronicity sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with resident AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro.

Synchronicity offers a modern blend of expressive tones and atmospheric textures.

With Synchronicity, his fifth Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro delivers a captivating blend of expressive tones and atmospheric guitar textures.

Perfectly suited for cinematic, ambient, and contemporary styles, Synchronicity blurs the line between traditional guitar playing and modern production, offering a versatile toolkit for evocative soundscapes and layered compositions.

Ranging from dreamy and mysterious to expansive and immersive, its eighty-four distinctive presets were carefully crafted to capture the essence of the guitar while introducing fresh, textural possibilities.

With 12 styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions, Synchronicity is ideal for adding rich layers of mood and movement to your productions.

Check out the Synchronicity product page.

Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his Funk Essence sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came out with this smooth, groovy and playful funk piece! We hope you'll enjoy it.

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his Funk Essence sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came out with this smooth groovy funk piece! We hope you'll enjoy it.

Follow Thiago Pinheiro on Instagram (@thiagopinheiromusic)

Check out the Funk Essence product page.

We've just released the Funk Essence sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with resident AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro.

Guitar sounds and loops inspired by the legends of funk.

With Funk Essence, his latest Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro introduces an eclectic selection of sounds that embody the spirit of funk from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. From disco-influenced funk to more vintage styles with a shuffled approach, this collection pays homage to the greats like James Brown, George Clinton, and Sly Stone. Designed to make your music groove like never before, Funk Essence features a range of sounds from clean guitars to phased and crunchy tones, exploring many sub-genres and sub-styles of funk.

Funk Essence includes 12 funk styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. Whether you're composing for TV, creating sync music, or just laying down the foundation for a groovy track, Funk Essence is tailor-made to help you inject infectious rhythms and soulful vibes into your compositions. Ideal for adding that authentic funk flavor to any genre, Funk Essence invites you to explore sounds inspired by the pioneers and legends of funk.

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Check out this video showcasing a handful of Funk Essence strumming loops.

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Utilizing the Eternal Harmony sound pack, Thiago came up with this smooth track for Kris to sing on! We hope you'll enjoy this little collab!

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Utilizing the Eternal Harmony sound pack, Thiago came up with this smooth track for Kris to sing on! We hope you'll enjoy this little collab!

Follow Thiago Pinheiro on Instagram (@thiagopinheiromusic)

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We've just released the Eternal Harmony sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro.

Guitars for folk, classic rock, and worship music.

With Eternal Harmony, his third Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro offers us a transcendent collection of rhythm guitars that resonate with the communal essence of worship music. If you’re a singer and songwriter, Eternal Harmony features an extensive array of heartfelt rhythms and emotive sounds, empowering you to lay the foundation for your next anthem swiftly. Inspired by the folk, gospel and classic rock genres, this pack introduces a rich palette of speed and strumming styles designed to enrich compositions with a fuller sound, crafting riffs that evoke a sense of unity and collective joy. Eternal Harmony is a meticulously crafted set of guitar presets, each harmoniously balanced and exceptionally playable without the need to master complex guitar techniques.

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his Jazz Café sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came out with this moody and intricate jazz piece! We hope you'll enjoy it.

All the guitar sounds in this video were made using the Jazz Café sound pack.

Follow Thiago Pinheiro on Instagram @thiagopinheiromusic

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his Jazz Café sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came out with this smooth groovy jazz piece! We hope you'll enjoy it.

All the guitar sounds in this video were made using the Jazz Café sound pack.

Follow Thiago Pinheiro on Instagram @thiagopinheiromusic

Check out the Jazz Café product page.

We've just released the Jazz Café sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro.

Journey through a panoramic view of jazz culture

With Jazz Café, his second Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro introduces a comprehensive selection of sounds offering a panoramic view of jazz music expression. Swinging or in a straight groove, this carefully curated collection embodies inspiration from blues, gospel, and even country music. Crafted in homage to the pioneers of jazz guitar, both early and contemporary, Jazz Café is tailor-made for your next jazz composition. Jazz Café features 12 jazz styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions, inviting you to incorporate the vibrant energy of international jazz cultures into your own compositions.

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his own Velvet Chic sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came up with this little feel good R&B song. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jammed with his own Velvet Chic sound pack for Strum GS-2 and came up with this soulful and a tad melancholic R&B song. We hope you'll enjoy it!

All the guitar sounds you hear on this video were made using the Velvet Chic sound pack.

Follow Thiago Pinheiro on Instagram @thiagopinheiromusic

Check out the Velvet Chic product page.

We've just released the Velvet Chic sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro Pietruszko.

A quintessential arsenal of guitar goodness for those seeking the essence of R&B without mastering the guitar.

With Velvet Chic, his first Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro unravels a quintessential arsenal of guitar goodness for those seeking the essence of Rhythm and Blues without mastering the guitar. Add sweet or intricate soulful guitars to your R&B songs and captivate your listeners' senses with sounds tailored specifically for passionate producers. Celebrating the pioneers of the genre, this sound pack covers R&B’s beginning all the way up to its modern form—from gentle chord whispers to dreamy and atmospheric textures that groove and dance alongside your infectious beats. Velvet Chic features 12 R&B styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. Dive into Velvet Chic, where heartfelt guitar tones and strumming transcend your arrangements effortlessly—no guitar skills needed!

Check out the Velvet Chic product page.

We've just released the Velvet Chic sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro Pietruszko.

A quintessential arsenal of guitar goodness for those seeking the essence of R&B without mastering the guitar.

With Velvet Chic, his first Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro unravels a quintessential arsenal of guitar goodness for those seeking the essence of Rhythm and Blues without mastering the guitar. Add sweet or intricate soulful guitars to your R&B songs and captivate your listeners' senses with sounds tailored specifically for passionate producers. Celebrating the pioneers of the genre, this sound pack covers R&B’s beginning all the way up to its modern form—from gentle chord whispers to dreamy and atmospheric textures that groove and dance alongside your infectious beats. Velvet Chic features 12 R&B styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. Dive into Velvet Chic, where heartfelt guitar tones and strumming transcend your arrangements effortlessly—no guitar skills needed!

Check out the Velvet Chic product page.

We've just released the Velvet Chic sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS sound designer Thiago Pinheiro.

Journey through a panoramic view of jazz culture

With Velvet Chic, his first Strum sound pack, Brazilian producer and keyboard virtuoso Thiago Pinheiro unravels a quintessential arsenal of guitar goodness for those seeking the essence of Rhythm and Blues without mastering the guitar. Add sweet or intricate soulful guitars to your R&B songs and captivate your listeners' senses with sounds tailored specifically for passionate producers. Celebrating the pioneers of the genre, this sound pack covers R&B’s beginning all the way up to its modern form—from gentle chord whispers to dreamy and atmospheric textures that groove and dance alongside your infectious beats. Velvet Chic features 12 R&B styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. Dive into Velvet Chic, where heartfelt guitar tones and strumming transcend your arrangements effortlessly—no guitar skills needed!

Check out the Velvet Chic product page.

Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro gave the Hop Riffs sound pack for the Strum GS-2 a spin and he's not alone! Introducing AAS' newest featured artist Yuli from Lagos, Nigeria. All the guitar sounds in this video come from the Hop Riffs sound pack. We hope you'll enjoy this little collab!

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Get ready to add some serious guitar goodness to your hip hop production with ease, no guitar playing skills required. Resident sound designer Niall McCallum returns with Hop Riffs—a Strum GS sound set tailored to discriminating hip hop beatmakers and producers in dire need of guitar flavor. Feel the groove take over your arrangements with this laid-back collection inspired by the modern wave of LoFi hip hop flooding the internet, as well as pioneers of the genre's classic 90s boom bap period. Hop Riffs features 12 hip hop sub-genres, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions.

Watch Hop Riffs’ deceptively simple strumming patterns come to life once combined with your favorite groovy drum beat making it dance and spark all over your song. From gentle chord figures and glistening arpeggios, to punchy dark riffs and atmospheric background textures, kick back and ignite your next beat with Hop Riffs' generous sprinkling of rich effects and smooth, versatile tones.

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Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jams with our acoustic & electric guitar virtual instrument called Strum GS-2 and came up with this sweet and vibrant piece. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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With Love Lost, AAS resident sound designer Niall McCallum places the pedalboard at center-stage to infuse emotion and tension into Strum GS-2, throwing up a panoply of effects configurations and permutations for your dreamiest or darkest sonic experimentations. Love Lost represents a diverse journey through the complete landscape of Strum’s powerful onboard effects units highlighting the psychedelic modulations found in Dream Pop and Shoegaze, the cavernous reverb and delays of Ambient music, and the all-out fuzz of Drone/Sludge Metal. Dive into this collection featuring 12 styles, 84 presets, and 84 strumming patterns to discover fraying phasers, funky flangers, crooning chorus, rippling reverb, delirious delay, and demented distortion. Love Lost is your own private arsenal of stacked FX boxes dialled up to 11 for maximum flavour and style.

Love Lost is currently 50% off during our the AAS Summer Sale, check out the product page.

Straight from his Brazil HQ, Thiago Pinheiro jams with our acoustic & electric guitar virtual instrument called Strum GS-2 and came up with this optimistic but moody Dream Pop piece. Notice Thiago's intricate use of the strumming keys in the guitar mode. We hope you'll enjoy it!

Love Lost is currently 50% off during our the AAS Summer Sale, check out the product page.

In this cool little groovy track, Thiago Pinheiro plays two rhythm guitar tracks in stereo in Strum's Guitar mode. Strumming with the right hand and making chord progressions with his left. Latin Vibes 2 Presets used in Guitar Mode: Intro: Polo Electric Chorus Rhythm Right: Polo Acoustic Chorus Rhythm Left: Tonic Lead Lead in Keyboard Mode: Arles City Acoustic

Latin Vibes 2 is currently 50% off during our holiday sale, check out the product page.

Thiago Pinheiro gave the Latin Vibes 2 sound pack a little spin and came out with this cool track. We hope you'll enjoy it!

Latin Vibes 2 Presets used: Rhythm Guitar Loops: Bonita Chorus (Left) + B Boy EQ (Right) Lead Guitar: B Boy Rhythm Left

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Resident sound designer Christian Laffitte is back at it again with Latin Vibes 2, exactly where the successful Latin Vibes sound pack left off. Drawing from his extensive world music knowledge, Christian explores once more modern tropical Latin music but this time around, adding colors and flavors straight from the African continent. With its 12 styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions, Latin Vibes 2 is jam-packed with groovy electric and acoustic strumming loops and sounds that will for sure add good vibrations to your next world music production.

Latin Vibes 2 is currently 50% off until November 19, check out the product page.

Thiago Pinheiro gave the All That Jazz sound pack a little spin and came out with this crazy exercise. We hope you'll enjoy it!

All that Jazz is currently 50% off until Sept 8, check out the product page.

Thiago Pinheiro gave the All That Jazz sound pack a little spin and came out with this pretty cool groovy track. We hope you'll enjoy it!

All that Jazz is currently 50% off until Sept 8, check out the product page.

Yves Frulla performs Dear Freddie from his All That Jazz sound pack for Strum GS-2 and AAS Player.

All that Jazz is currently 50% off until Sept 8, check out the product page.

With this Strum GS-2 sound pack—All That Jazz—sound designer Yves Frulla pays tribute to some of the jazz guitar greats. All that Jazz packs 12 styles, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. By combining Strum GS-2's Guitar, Keyboard, and Loop modes along with preset variations, your jazzy guitar parts are covered. The All That Jazz sound pack showcases jazz' foundations with its up-tempo funky strumming pattern rhythms. Give it a try on your next hip jazz combo charts or your complex swinging big band arrangements.

All that Jazz is currently 50% off until Sept 8, check out the product page.

Strum GS-2 v2.4.1 brings the fixes below. We recommend this free maintenance update to all users on all platforms. Get it via the trial version, the Support page, or straight from your Registrated Products page.  

• Fixed possible crash on start with VST3 plug-in.
• Fixed problems when running in Cakewalk.

Please note the following:

• The installer can simply be run over your current installation to perform the update.
• This is a full installer so you can use it as a starting point if you need to reinstall from scratch in the future.

Resident sound designer Niall McCallum returns with Post Rock. The collected works leave the familiar rock territory to introduce atmospheric and spacious grounds where sparse and icy rhythms, tensed and muted riffs as well as full-throttle distortion freak-outs lie.

Post Rock features 12 styles, 84 presets, and 84 strumming patterns. The collection draws upon a wealth of distinctive alternative rock genres, from the spaced-out hypnotism of the underground post rock scene to the ripped jeans of 90s-era grunge, to the chugging and overdriven riffs of chart-storming British alt-rock bands. Post Rock also adds shades of blistering high-gain drone metal and post hardcore riffs in for good measure.

Join us on a far-ranging voyage through the brilliant colors that make up the alternative movement. Just dim the lights and crank out the gain!

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Resident sound designer Niall McCallum welcomes you to your own slice of strummed Caribbean paradise with Tropical Jam—a Strum GS-2 sound set with an abundance of laidback grooves and an awesome vintage vibe. From sub-heavy muted riffs and offbeat chords to delay-drenched stabs and relaxed picked melodies, this preset collection will have you falling in love with the spiraling sound of the spring reverb all over again.

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Resident sound designer Yves Frulla presents his third Strum GS-2 sound pack conveniently titled Take 3—featuring 12 styles, 73 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions. This new collection features those hard to find odd time signature grooves you have been looking for—3/4, 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 aimed at rock, blues, pop, country, and reggae. Unlike your grandmaʼs favorite waltz, Take 3 feels fresh and versatile. When a project calls for unconventional triplet feel or triple meter time signature, Take 3 should prove itself as an ideal complement. Dig deep and give a fun dimension to your music with this unique sound pack.

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