Acoustic Revolutions
Strum Designer
The fastest way to lay down acoustic guitar rhythm tracks.
$99
Audio Demos
- The End Andrew Aversa 1:08
- Spiorad Henning Nugel 1:38
- Happy Place Brad Jerkins 0:53
- Wind Dance Joshua Matthews 1:30
- Days Go By Pixelee 2:14
- Then We Had Coffee Chris Porter 0:40
- Fading Autumn Diego Muir (mixed by Titanio) 0:57
Overview
Our definitive acoustic guitar rhythm instrument! Acoustic Revolutions: Strum Designer (formerly: Acoustic Revolutions 3) gives you the convenience of loops with the ultimate in flexibility, so that you can quickly write entire rhythm tracks in virtually any key, chord, or tempo, using a single instrument.
Product Info
Over 14,000 24-bit recordings
Available both in the Kontakt instrument, and as standalone WAV loops.
48 inspiring rhythm patterns
Build your track from a selection of bread-and-butter rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8.
Play virtually any chord in any key
Create nearly any progression you can think of with twelve recorded chords for every pattern, playable in any key.
Great for any genre
With a huge variety of rhythms, Strum Designer works great for rock, pop, singer-songwriter, country, EDM and beyond.
Features
Host-synced playback
True doubletracking
Multiple playback modes
Analog and digitally-modeled FX
Selectively load up to 48 patterns
Requirements
18GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
8GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Apple M1, Intel I5, or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt Player 5.8.1+
This library will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OSX
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update). Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows: Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Library Walkthrough
(Legacy) Library Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
"Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit."
Ben Prunty
FTL: Faster Than Light, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero
"I've been using ISW since 2015, and their instruments have shown up in Into the Breach and Subnautica Below Zero, and in nearly all of my solo albums. Shreddage helped me fill in the gaps around my own guitar performances. Super Audio Cart provided some great raw synth sounds for parts of Below Zero. Impact Soundworks is often the first place I go to when I'm shopping for a new project. Everything they make works and sounds great."
Acoustic Revolutions: Strum Designer is our definitive rhythmic acoustic guitar library. More than just a collection of loops, Strum Designer gives you the tools to build complete rhythm parts in virtually any chord progression, key, and tempo. You’ll find amazing versatility in these loops, which can sit easily in soft rock, epic ballads, edgy pop, dance, folk, easy listening, and even world genres. We’ve exhaustively sampled 48 unique strummed rhythms in two tempos, six keys, twelve chord types, and multiple variations per rhythm. As a result, you can use the performances in virtually any composition with minimal stretching or shifting needed!
Strum Designer lets you produce beautiful, natural rhythmic guitar parts within minutes. Choose from 12 different chord types such as major, minor, 7ths, augmented (etc) via keyswitch or intelligent chord detection, then easily select patterns by tapping a single key.
This Kontakt Player instrument gives you many ways to perform, sequence, and switch between rhythms and chords seamlessly. While all loops are also provided in WAV format, Strum Designer provides three convenient ways to musically control its huge bank of over 13,000 loops. In all three modes, patterns are selected via keyswitch:
- For those less comfortable playing chords on their keyboard controllers, manual mode allows you to select a chord root and chord quality with a single keyswitch each.
- Intelligent mode will detect the chord (root and quality) you play on your keyboard.
- For those seeking the ultimate in rapid production, auto chord mode narrows your choices to diatonic chords within an octave. Select your key and scale quality, then use keyswitches to select diatonically mapped chords, allowing you to easily create chord progressions that fit smoothly together. Adjust playback to sync with your host, trigger transitions like chokes, falls, stops, and mutes, and even apply up to 6 FX from our modular analog/digital effects rack!
Whether you’re writing pop, rock, country, underscore, or EDM, Strum Designer’s far-reaching content is sure to inspire your productions!
Reviews
Acoustic Revolutions 3 – Sample Library Review
“Impact Soundworks’ Acoustic Revolutions 3 offers an extensive variety of looped rhythms for those in need of an acoustic guitar background. Superbly recorded, this library has a crystal clear acoustic sound, with a very tight timing that automatically syncs to your DAW’s tempo.”
Andrea Federici (Sample Library Review)