I am especially wondering how flexible it is to make your own patterns. i may get it tomorrow so anything you can say will be helpful. Thanks in advance!

Edit: ha! I put Jazz instead of funk... changed. Doh.

It's not for you. It's not free. You keep on asking about free. Unless your going back to cracks..

'going back to cracks' why would you think that? I have a $30 coupon from NI and I just sold my copy of Ableton to finance it, and am just looking for some info from other users if they think it is worthwhile. I ask for free when there is something free that suits the need. No offense, but you should not assume things about people you don't know.

My main reservation is that it will be just too specific to funk, I want something that will do (basically) Grateful Dead type 70's rock funk, like Shakedown Street or Estimated Prophet, and Reggae, more so than straight funk grooves. I imagine I would be making my own patterns and that is what I'd like some feedback on specifically.

Also i am demo'ing Rob Papen's RG and it is really cool for the most part, not exactly authentic sounding but easy and don't require a large sample footprint, but it is limited to just major and minor/7ths so I am reluctant. I'm hoping they have some sort of special at some point, as I really like it just am afraid that it won't work in a tune when I really want it. I wish it wrote to Midi file also so another plugin could use the patterns it generates. I basically want to keep all software purchases below $100, that is my limit.

I'm demo'ing Sugar Bytes Guitarist and really liking that, I think that is more what I'm looking for so I'm shopping for the best price, if anyone wants to sell it please let me know I emailed the developer begging for a discount but this one is maybe worth saving my pennies for, any thoughts on this plugin? It can get the jingle-jangle sounds that AAS Strum doesn't seem to do so well, glad I only paid $20 for it. It is ok but not ideal by a long shot. The ability to export midi files and revoice is a big deal to me, as Strum is locked into their own simulation and it sounds very thin, and the timing is a little weird in my mixes.

they sent me a 50% off link, so I just bought it, so no more having to hear from me about Scarbee's Funk Guitarist Sorry for all my posts and questions, I just want to spend my $ wisely.

Yes, you can make your own patterns. That part of the functionality is very flexible. The main thing that might limit you, stylistically, is the guitar sound. It has a nice skanky strat rhythm sound (with strat-style 3-position pu switch, which is nice), but that's it. That's all it does.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah that was what I was thinking, also it being in Kontakt made me think it may be a CPU/disk hog, do you have any opinions on that? And it doesn't export to Midi or have any solo voice, both were concerns. I still may get it eventually if they do a sale but I think I did right getting Guitarist, plus since it is laid out with a fretboard I will know exactly what is being played and can try to compliment wityh my own guitar.

Plus I feel really good about supporting a smaller developer

It delivers a realistic sound but man is it complex to use. There seems to be this aggravating randomness to the was the grooves are mapped and then there's the challenge of trying to program it yourself.

You mean Scarbee right?

Yes, great sound, but questionable implementation.

Well I'm glad I didn't get it then I am loving Guitarist, it is freaking awesome. I can work out chord progressions with a real guitar, then just implement in Guitarist's UI so easily before ever looking at the DAW and produce real midi files, that is such a huge plus, so I'm not confined to any one plugin's sounds. I feel like I dodged a bullet

With Strum! I've been struggling with how it voices chords depending on my playing, with Guitarist I see and can control exactly what it is doing. At least Strum was only $20.