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Sakura can reproduce the delicate pluck of a single string, a violins bowing or the sonorous resonance of a grand piano. Most importantly, the curious musician can take control of every aspect of the simulation to create fantastic instruments. Ever wanted to know what a 20-foot guitar sounded like? Or a bowed piano? Now you can find out, Sakura opens up a world of string modeling possibilities. Like the transient beauty of Sakura (Japanese for Cherry Blossom), the sound of stringed instruments blossoms and fades. Image-Line brings you ˜Sakura', the string physical modeling instrument, to express the delicacy and beauty of stringed sounds.

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  • Contact - An impulse, the mechanical contact with the string, is first generated then shaped to simulate plucks, picks, scrapes, hammers, taps or humble fingers
  • Vibration - Sakura's dual string model then gives the operator control over a wide range of parameters such as damping, tension, positioning and string properties
  • String interaction - The dual strings are then mixed, panned and enveloped to simulate interactions
  • Resonance - The string/s vibration then interacts with an 8-resonator ˜body simulator' to create the size, material and shape of the instrument
  • Acoustics - Virtual acoustic space is then simulated with chorus, delay and reverberation effects

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System requirements
    PC
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    • Windows 7, Vista, XP (SP2) - (32 & 64 Bit)
    • 2Ghz AMD or Intel Pentium 3 compatible CPU with full SSE1 support
    • 512Mb RAM.
    • 30Mb free disc space.
    • DirectSound or ASIO compatible soundcard.
    Mac
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    • OSX v10.4 (Universal Binary)
    • G4 1.5 GHz or Intel Core Duo family
    • 512Mb RAM.
    • 30Mb free disc space.
    • CoreAudio drivers