Simple-Media recently released String Thing 2, a plucked string virtual instrument plug-in with advanced controls and filtering to create a more natural tone.
Features include:
- Controls over plucking.
- Variable bandwidth filter.
- Improved impulse, string and body model.
- Simplified and improved impulse control.
- Vastly improved sound quality.
- Modulation (MIDI CC).
- Various controls for tonal quality.
- Reasonable CPU load.
String Thing 2 is available for Windows as a VST instrument and it is free.
