Mildon Plugins has announced that their Mildon Strummer 3 virtual acoustic guitar instrument VST plugin for Windows based host applications is now re-released as freeware.
Mildon Strummer is a crossover between a virtual guitar instrument and a MIDI effect. It’s been around since 2009 (originally priced at $49) and is now being re-released as a freeware VST plugin, along with several other older virtual effects that were developed by Mildon Plugins.
See also: Free Guitar & Bass Guitar Sample Libraries!The coolest thing about Mildon Strummer is that it can be used to “strum” any other virtual instrument via MIDI, so long as the host application provides such MIDI routing capabilities. While operating in MIDI Out mode, the plugin sends MIDI data to the receiving instrument, meaning that it can work as an external “strumming generator” for third party instruments that don’t offer such functionality.
I’ve tested the plugin in MuLab Free in tandem with the freeware Grace sampler by One Small Clue and both the ease of the setup process and the resulting performance were quite satisfactory. The download pack includes a clearly written user manual that can definitely help with the initial setup, in case you run into some issues in your host application of choice.
Mildon Strummer can also work as a standalone acoustic guitar virtual instrument that can load external SoundFonts. It comes pre-loaded with a decent sounding acoustic guitar SoundFont which can actually work quite well for some basic background guitars in the context of a busier mix. Unfortunately, the plugin can’t load SFZ libraries.
Mildon Software has re-released a couple of other freebies along with Mildon Strummer. 3D Panner is a panning utility designed for placing a sound inside a virtual 3D room. 30 Band Graphic EQ is a simple graphic equalizer effect with a handy “draw” feature for quick and easy tonal shaping. All plugins were built in SynthEdit and will only work in 32-bit host applications running on Windows.
Download
Mildon Strummer 3 is available for free download via Mildon Plugins (17.3 MB download size, ZIP archive, 32-bit VSTi plugin format for Windows, made with SynthEdit).
Last Updated on December 1, 2015 by Tomislav Zlatic.
