Monthly Archives: January 2008

AAS Strum Acoustic just around the corner

“Can’t learn the guitar in time for your deadline. Your favorite session player is out of town. Romplers are not quite there. Strum is the just-right solution.” With these words Applied Acoustics introduces us to their new Strum Acoustic GS-1 Guitar Plug-in Synthesizer. Without giving away more details AAS says Strum Acoustic will be out by the end of 2008’s first quarter, when more details will be revealed.

UPDATE: Coming NAMM 2008, any rumours going around?

From January 17 to January 20 the NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in United States. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas. And every year rumours start to emerge on the internet on what the manufacturers have cooked up for us. What can we expect for the coming year. We tried to gather some totally unfounded and unauthorised ‘rumours’ for you.

ARTURIA announces version 1.2 of the Prophet V

The virtual emulation offered in the Prophet V is an exact replica of the original instrument and uses the same subtractive synthesis model. Subtractive synthesis refers to the filtering of sounds in a specific way in order to create harmonically rich waveforms and new timbres. Our reproduction of Subtractive synthesis with TAE guarantees the sound quality of the instrument. Arturia has announced update-version 1.2. which is free to all registered users and can be downloaded at their website.