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Frontier String Studio VS-3 Sound Bank is a pack of 130 presets for the String Studio VS-3 synthesizer by Applied Acoustics Systems, and the Black Friday deal takes 51% off, which brings it to $19 until Nov 18, 2026.
Sound designer Daniel Stawczyk made it. He also built the Starlight and Cinémathèque banks, and Frontier is his next one.
The maker describes the sounds as coming straight out of deep-space exploration. The idea is a survey of what you might find around the farthest celestial bodies.
The 130 presets are sorted into seven categories, so you can jump straight to the kind of sound you need:
Arps are the biggest group by a wide margin, so a good chunk of the bank is sequenced, moving material you can drop under a track and build around.
The maker pitches the bank at two jobs: setting a futuristic mood and scoring a parallel-universe story. It says Frontier delivers the extraterrestrial enigma you are after.
The download includes the following:
All AAS Sound Banks run on the free AAS Player, and the player comes with this purchase.
Once the sound bank is installed, there are two ways to use it.
If String Studio VS-2 is installed on your computer, the expansion is added to it automatically.
If you do not own String Studio VS-3, load the bank in the AAS Player plug-in or its standalone application. That means the presets are playable without the full synth.
The preset collection works with the free AAS Player as well as with the String Studio VS-3 analog synthesizer. If you already run the synth, the bank slots straight into your signal chain.
Yes. The Frontier String Studio VS-3 Sound Bank is 51% off for Black Friday, which brings it to $19. The deal ends Nov 18, 2026. It is a 130-preset bank by Applied Acoustics Systems.
You get the preset bank for String Studio VS-3 and AAS Player, the AAS Player plug-in, a serial number and installation instructions. The bank holds 130 presets across arps, effects, gated, keys, leads, plucked and synths.
No. The bank also runs in the free AAS Player, as a plug-in or standalone application. If you do own String Studio VS-3, the presets work there too. With VS-2 installed, the expansion is added to it automatically.
Frontier has 130 presets: 51 arps, 23 effects, 12 gated, 8 keys, 7 leads, 11 plucked and 18 synths. The maker says the sounds come out of deep-space exploration. Daniel Stawczyk designed the bank.
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