Best Acoustic Guitar Plugins

[Frederic Laureano]

AcousticGuitar VSTs are becoming extremely realistic as of the last few years. I would argue, to the point where you can actually make certain plugins sound better on a recording than an actual acoustic guitar.

This acoustic guitar plugin is no different in the fact that it has some great sounds. There are over 200 preset guitars to choose from and it comes with a 3 different play modes. You have keyboard mode, where you can play it like a keyboard, guitar mode, which is like a guitar, and loop mode.

Orange Tree samples create some state of the art plugins. I included the Evolution Songwriter plugin as this is great for those aspiring songwriters who are looking to go for the Iron & Wine type of guitar sound.

Type Of Plugin: Some plugins can be played whereas others are strictly just samples. I believe that the best types of acoustic guitar plugins are actual virtual instruments, meaning you can play them with a keyboard.

Realism: Some plugins are able to capture the realism of a real acoustic guitar, where others just simply fall flat. Over the years, this has definitely approved and most of our selections sound very realistic.

Articulations: The articulations that the plugin can do prove to be very important in most songwriting sessions. The more strumming patterns and bends, the better when it comes to capturing the dynamics.

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I need to purchase a really awesome acoustic guitar AU or VST for logic for a track that I'm working on now and I'm not happy with the ones that come with logic, I need something more natural and better over all.

Thanks for this thread. I looked up Akkord before realizing I already had it in the Kontakt 3 library. I've never used it because the included strum patterns were useless to me and I didn't know that you can actually play the strums in real time.

Is there a good quality acoustic guitar sample library or modelling available on iOS? Tried a couple free libraries on Decent Sampler but would be willing to pay for quality. The acoustic guitar sounds on Logic Pro are OK, but not exactly convincing.

@BillS said:

Is there a good quality acoustic guitar sample library or modelling available on iOS? Tried a couple free libraries on Decent Sampler but would be willing to pay for quality. The acoustic guitar sounds on Logic Pro are OK, but not exactly convincing.

To my ears, the best current retail IOS acoustic guitar is the American Acoustic IAP in Sampletank for IOS.

Appears to have genuine round robin samples, and sounds just as good as the well regarded Kontakt instruments from companies like Orange Tree and Indiginus.

Sampletank isn't an AUv3 though - still only IAA.

Also, it always (every time) eventually ends up freezing on my iPad when I use it in Auria Pro or AUM.

Turning off WiFi or Cellular for me seems to help it stay stable in standalone mode.

Why don't you like Sculpture? It should be a really good modeling engine. It works fine with the Logic internal keyboard when you select Polyphonic Pichbend and Y-Mapping. I know it's a bad UI port, but the sound and features are the same as on the desktop.

It does, even though so far I seem to still get better results with the soundfont I'm using which is a shame because it's really great to have those articulations with pianoteq ? I hope they're secretly working on an electric guitar too, but it's probably unlikely hehe

Lately, I've been transcribing my acoustic guitar bits to midi and playing them back through jazz guitar in kontakt with guitar rig. The sound is ok but of course electric. This is not so bad since my acoustic guitar style is mainly grabbed chords and finger picking jazz style, with the occasional strummed chord. I don't have an acoustic guitar in my collection.

I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas about what might be a good option. I don't want a strumming guitar sound or thin sounding picking and would like to keep the price down if possible. If anyone has any other ideas or can point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated.

Hadn't seen this, very interesting, the controls are phenomenal, the way they implement the articulations and keyswitches etc are excellent, more options for control over sound than I've seen anywhere else, 12 string, power chords etc good strumming engine as well. Sound quality is really good as well. Price is excellent. On the short list. Requires full version of Kontakt but that's ok I have that. Possibly a little brighter than I was seeking but the sound quality between all of these paid products seems to be more around personal preference than sampling quality, they all sound really good to me.

I have NI's Session Guitarist Strummed Acoustic 2. I've just messed with it on the surface, but there are a lot of granular controls to customize the strumming patterns and humanize it the way you want. NI sells the picked version too, though I don't have that one. There are demos! ?

Here are some free downloads from Indiginus as well as their $59 US nylon string acoustic , $45 US jangly steel string acoustic and another $59 US steel string acoustic . Each guitar sounds different and the user interface differs from plain to great.

I've got Komplete ultimate 10 and attempted to upgrade to 12 using the hard drive option but it didn't work for me because it still needed a huge download (whats the point of offering the hard drive option?). Native Access has destroyed any hope of me using NI products again unfortunately otherwise, this problem would have been done and dusted long ago. I need to be able to go into town and use their blistering speed internet connection to download the product in full and then transfer it to my offline DAW as I don't have a good internet connection where I live, I can't do this with Native Non-Access as you have to download it to your DAW directly. I'm also after a specific type of finger picking sound.

Thanks, didn't know about this, they also have a finger picking pattern player for $79.00 US but they don't show it's features as a sample player which is what I'm primarily looking for. I've dropped them an email to clarify this.

Thanks, had a look at this, small download (78mb). Acoustic modelling. I think it fails a little as a dedicated traditional acoustic guitar from what I've heard but it has many possibilities for both electric and acoustic and the sound quality, although different, is excellent. This would be a great way to incorporate unusual guitar sounds into a modern production. They also have a sale on at the moment, 50% off, so I've bounced it over to the deals section. I am enticed to get it because although it won't fill the gap for a traditional acoustic for me, the high quality sounds and plentiful variations it has could really have an application in music.

Another free, modeled guitar VST2 is Spicy Guitar. The Spicy Guitar website appears to be down but a good description of the VST along with a video link is available here: instruments/spicy guitar.html

Thanks for the reply's guy's, this has helped me out a lot. At the moment the Indiginus Renegade Acoustic is at the top of my list. They are also offering good support as I contacted them and they respond quickly whereas a couple of others I contacted haven't bothered to get back to me.

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