Applied Acoustics String Studio VS-3 + Packs

Applied Acoustics String Studio VS-3 + Packs puts forth a truly distinctive sonic signature thanks to a collection of peerless string oscillators. With the eight included Sound Pack Series titles adding up to more than 900 presets, String Studio VS‑3 looks forward to spark your imagination—whenever you need it. String Studio VS-3 combines two independent timbres—either stacked or split—to create performance-friendly, texture-full, and spacious sounds that are sure to make a good impression.

Augmented with classic filters, envelope, LFO, soundboard, and studio-quality effects, String Studio VS-3 offers a terrific balance between innovation and familiarity. String Studio VS-3 holds an abundance of effects in three independent racks. Reverb, delay, distortion, phaser, chorus, flanger, filters, equalizer, compressor, guitar amplifier, tremolo—all assist in putting the final touch on a sound.

String Studio VS-3 now boasts two performance modulators per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls. Each and every library sound features effect and morphing assignments that can be played in real time for enhanced expressivity and sonic dimension.

WHAT’S NEW

Applied Acoustics have streamlined String Studio and brought it to a whole new level.

• NEW Two-Voice Multitimbral: String Studio VS-3 combines two independent timbres—either stacked or split—to create performance-friendly, texture-full, and spacious sounds that are sure to make a good impression
• NEW Modulators: String Studio VS-3 now boasts two performance modulators per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls. Each and every sound features effect and morphing assignments that can be played in real time for enhanced expressivity and sonic dimension
• PEPPED Factory Library​: A long and fastidious process of fine-tuning went down in the AAS quarters. Each and every sounds went under the eyes of all team members to exit with a consistent gain-stage, unity-gain effects, better dynamics, and compelling real-time sound transformation assignments. This is Applied Acoustics' most perfected sound library to date.
• NEW Signature Sound Packs: String Studio VS-3 ships with four brand-new signature sound packs created by top sound designers. Richard Devine, Christian Laffitte, Thiago Pinheiro, and Daniel Stawczyk form an incredible team that made the most of the latest String Studio VS-3 features
• NEW Browser: String Studio VS-3’s improved sound browser presents a simple way to find the sound you’re after. String Studio VS-3 sorts sounds by category to present an overview of a pack’s content. Additionally, shortcuts to categories and tone qualities provide a quick way to jump right where you need to be.
• IMPROVED Filter's Musicality: String Studio VS-3’s filters can now put up with extreme modulation while remanding totally musical
• EXPANDED Multi-Effects Module: String Studio VS-3’s multi-effects module now sports reverb, equalizer, compressor, and guitar amplifier processors for even more completeness
• NEAT Compatible with String Studio VS-2 sounds: Simply copy String Studio VS-2 banks in String Studio VS-3’s packs folder to convert them
• IMPROVED Microtonal tunings via Scala scale files

Included Sound Bundles:

• String Theory by Adam Pietruszko Stranger Strings
• Stranger Strings by David of MixbusTV Masala
• Masala by Christian Laffitte Aftermath
• Aftermath by Daniel Stawczyk Journeys
• Journeys by Gregory Simpson Entangled Species
• Entangled Species by David Kristian Frontier
• Frontier by Daniel Stawczyk Harmonic Geometry
• Harmonic Geometry by Richard Devine

800+ Professionally crafted presets

The 800+ sounds of String Studio VS-3 form a coherent whole with consistent gain-staging, unity-gain effects, better dynamics, and compelling per sound MIDI controlled variations. This is Applied Acoustics' most perfected sound library to date.

FOUR Signature sound packs

String Studio VS-3 ships with four pristine signature sound packs created by unrivalled sound dwellers. Richard Devine, Christian Laffitte, Thiago Pinheiro, and Daniel Stawczyk set forth a collection of unheard sounds that makes the most of the latest String Studio VS-3 features.

22 Top sound designers

Only a team can assemble a fine factory library—let’s introduce the 22 contributors: Ben Crosland, Benoit Charland, Carsten Schmid, Christian Halten, Christian Laffitte, Daniel Stawczyk, Deadbeat, Eric Thibeault, Erik Putrycz, Gautam, Glen Darcey, Harm Visser, JDG, Jean-Christophe Utz, Martin Walker, Paul Haslinger, Philippe Derogis, Richard Devine, Sean Divine, Simeon Amburgey, Thiago Pinheiro, and Vincent Gagnon.

22 Synthesizer sound categories

String Studio VS-3 shows high proficiency by covering 22 sound categories—basses, percussions, effects, impacts, noises, sweeps, clavinets, keys, organs, bells, mallets, guitars, plucks, strings, leads, pads, arpeggios, layers, rhythmics, sequences, splits, and textures.

Mac minimum system requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.7 or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2012) processor or faster
• 64-bit DAW

PC minimum system requirements:

• Windows 7 64‑bit or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2012) processor or faster
• 64-bit DAW