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Load a chord, strum your board. It’s that easy. AudioWarrior programming takes the guesswork out of playing sample based guitar chords and scorching leads on your keyboard. Easily add the Holy Grail of Real-Acoustic-Guitar to your compositions without the need of guitar chord knowledge using pat pending G-MAPPED strummable Chords, Keys, & updated Combinator Patches for Reason 3.0.

Remastered and reprogrammed with a large assortment of 85 expandable individual chords available as NN-XT sampler patches or as “Combi-Multi’s”; Major and Minor Keys as Combinator patches containing individual “KEY” racks of multiple NN-XT’s with strummable chords mapped to each C position from C0-C1-C2-C3-C4-C5-C6-C7.

Simply open one of the included Combinator Key patches or Combinator Key Reason Songs and you’ll have instant access to any Major or Minor chord in that Key, instantly playable on your keyboard, ready to play, record, and add effects in any way or style you choose.

No need to know how to play guitar or keyboard because the chord programming allows anyone to instantly play perfect sounding chords in a grouped set of keys regardless of ability.
The approach is designed to reduce or eliminate many of the hurdles associated with getting high quality realistic sampled-guitar into your recordings.

Features:

* Reason 3.0 Compatible
* Combinator patches that let you instantly open all of G-Mapped chords of all Major or Minor keys in one window
* “85” G-Mapped Strummable expertly recorded and programmed chord patches. Strum or pick chords any way you choose.
* 600 Megs of 400 natural acoustic 24-bit samples
* AudioWarrior’s Exclusive Patent Pending G-Mapping process for user interactive authentic chord strumming on a MIDI keyboard by hand or with the included guitar pick!
* Chromatic NN-XT Sampler Patches and NN-XT Reason Songs with and without sustain
* Muted Chromatic Patches with a splash of chorus and reverb for the classic palm-muted-strings technique, similar to pizzicato.
* Thousands of chord combinations possible
* All open strings and fretted notes have been sampled individually in true stereo. You will hear the amazing difference.
* Hammer-ons,
* Wood slaps/thumps
* String scrapes
* Plinks & string sweeps above the tuning pegs
* 24 Natural Harmonics (4-per string) @ the 5th fret, 7th fret, 12th fret and at the Bridge of all 6 strings
* “14” Bonus Low B (open tuned-B-E-A-D-F#-B) NN-XT chord patches
* Hammer-ons from all 6 strings
* Muted notes
* New G-Mapped chord patches made available for registered users
* Each NN-XT can hold up to 10 G-Mapped chords. Need more chords? Simply create another NN-XT, or, load 10 NN-XT’s into a Combinator patch and create another Combinator!
* Selectable 16-bit or 24-bit playback via the NN-XT Advanced Sampler
* Natively programmed as a playable performance instrument in Reason for use with Propellerheads NN-XT Advanced Sampler.

*Rewire friendly and Integrates with more than 38 Rewire Host applications including Steinberg Cubase, Steinberg Nuendo, Emagic Logic 4.7.3 -> 6.1 , Digital Performer, Pro Tools, Sony Acid, and Ableton Live

Take the FREE fully functional D5 chord demo for a spin at http://audiowarrior.com/AcousticDreadnoughtStrummer.html

V1.3 is a free update for registered users from November 1st 2004.

Website: http://www.audiowarrior.com