Ample Sound Libraries
Carolina Schmalzried
The Tab feature provides access to a variety of tabs for Blues, Jazz, Country, Funk and Pop or you can import your own Tabs in as long as they are in GuitarPro format. You can also drag the Tab from the instrument and drag it straight into your DAW.
The Articulations sampled for Ample Bass Upright are Sustain, Mute, Natural Harmonic, Hammer on & Pull off, Legato Slide and Slide in & Slide out. The Poly legato feature along with the ability to play at any speed, pitch or velocity makes for some pretty amazing realism in your playing. Again, if you have any of the other Amplesound guitars or basses, this will be familiar territory.
The Settings Tab allows you to drill down further on things like tuning, max voices, velocity sensitivity, sample cycle mode and MIDI guitar settings. A word of caution: refer to the manual before making any changes here if you are not sure.
Trying to truly express the sound of an instrument in a review is difficult at best. Every instrument is a personal choice for a musician. What I can say about Ample Bass Upright is that I am really impressed with the sound, the sculpting capability and the functionality. It can roll both as either a straight acoustic or electric or some flavor of both. If you own other plugins by Amplesound, the familiarity of the interface eliminates the learning curve, although truth-be-told, the interface is very intuitive to begin with.
Amplesound Bass Upright II is a VST/AAX/AU/RTAS virtual instrument plugin. It requires 5 GB of disk space. Amplesound provides an extremely comprehensive technical fact sheet on their website. Instead of restating the content of the site here.
+1 This is honestly unacceptable in 2018 when allegedly "pro" laptops offer only soldered, limited capacity SSD. A 5GB library may not seem like much to devs, but when your laptop serves multiple production purposes, sound libraries quickly add up.
Why isn't this a feature? Particularly on MacOS you have system limitations on where the VSTs need to be installed, it helps to offload the bulk of the sounds and samples to an external drive.
Almost all computers and Operating Systems want you to separate your storage from operational drives now-a-days... The fact this isn't possible with Equator is confusing.
I don't use Mac. But the real point here was that it should be possible to INSTALL the library to a user selectable folder. It can easily happen that people don't have enough disk space on the default installation drive. Or some people like to keep all their libraries as subfolders of some folder. Much easier to find stuff later and check what kind of libraries you have.
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While I can manage to set up a track using Ample Sound and record the output , the recorded track never seems to match what I had just played in Strummer in Ample Sound ( when I play it back , it sounds like the notes are being doubled and the timing is all off).
Seconded, Im also having trouble. I can set up a strum pattern which plays back through the plugin, but when I follow the steps to programme the MIDI as per their tutorial videos, I only get the sound of the keyboard, rather than the MIDI playing the recorded pattern Ive programmed into the plugin.
Well I have the 7 day trial and wont be buying. Had nothing but trouble with Ample Guitar III. Making my whole workflow very clonky and unstable and when I attempt to use the effects, both mouse and keyboard do nothing have to false PC shutdown, not good. Nobody seems to have an answer Which is a shame as really sounds good. Have now uninstalled and cakewalk working perfectly.. Cant be trusted.
If you play back an audio recording of that performance along with the MIDI, that will trigger the MIDI instrument again, and you will get it doubled. After recording the Ample Sound performance to an audio track, you will probably need to mute the MIDI clip.
Something has gone wrong with these freebies. I can't use them in w10 the bass or the guitar. They just give me error messages . I used them for about 2 years before and not sure what has gone wrong. I can still use them on my W7 laptop.
I haven't tried recording with the Strat or Acoustic Amplesound models I got quite recently but I've just opened a project with the Strat in it and it seems to be playing fine and I'm on Windows 10 1909 so I don't think it is specifically a Win 10 issue
I tried downloading and re installing a few times. The error message is it can't find the sample library so there is no sound. I did not change any pathways etc. I've installed it to a lot of other computer before without issue. I think it's just this one computer which is not important. It's just my office computer and I don't do any real recording with it. But I like to muck about with midi files.
My main DAW computer is still in mothballs since we moved into a new house last summer. Busy with reno's and enjoying my cabinet making skills so music as a hobby took a back seat. Spending money on tools instead of music gear. Then to top it off, the only gigs we ever play each year have all been cancelled. One of my reno's will be a real nice music room,,, complete with proper treatment. I hope Cakewalk is still working when I get there.
Ample Sound T is a virtual guitar based on the Taylor 714CE acoustic guitar. Ample Sound T III contains two sample libraries Finger Library and Pick Library with a total volume of more than 7 GB. The instrument has natural sustain and resonant guitar sounds, without looping. AGT also includes several playing techniques, including sliding down and up, palm muting, natural harmonics, legato with various lengths, and many others.
Ample Sound T is a virtual guitar based on the Taylor 714CE acoustic guitar. Ample Sound T III contains two sample libraries, Finger Library and Pick Library, with a total volume of over 7 GB. The instrument has natural sustain and resonant guitar sounds, without looping. AGT also includes several playing techniques, including sliding up and down, palm muting, natural harmonics, legato with different lengths, and many others.
Next, I modified this first section to test for dynamics, muting, and harmonics (if they were available). The first two banjo VIs offered these articulations, but I could find no way to perform the harmonics on the RealiBanjo. Each of these had very different styles of muted playing as you can hear at about the 6 second mark in the sample below. The Ample Sound VI produced the most musical-sounding muted playing even when I experimented with it in a mix.
By contrast, Ample and Evolution banjos had extreme dynamics that seemed very unnatural. To my ears, the shift from soft to loud does not happen in a natural way. These sound more like attenuation (think: volume knob) and less like the player changed their playing to change the loudness. On the other hand, RealiBanjo had a more natural dynamic range and crescendoed nicely from soft to loud.
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Only about a year after Ample Sound first launched, it has already managed to produce no less than 5 virtual guitar instrument libraries. After doing a set of three electric guitars (Fender Strat, Gibson Les Paul & PRS Artist) they have recently released Martin and Taylor acoustic guitar libraries.
My favorite Ample Sound library is the Ample Guitar M, which brings the sound of the Martin D-41 dreadnought to your computer. This one sounds a lot like the Takamine I use myself, so I was drawn to it immediately.
The instrument is built on a total of 3,842 dry samples in finger and strum playing styles. The Ample Sound engine comes with tons of features that allow you to make it sound like you are playing/recording a real guitar. There are various playing styles, fret noise, resonance control, comprehensive chords and strumming, various stereo & mono modes and doubling, and lots more.
Ample Sound recognizes that you will likely need some more hands-on training, so they have included MIDI and project files of the demos for some of the major DAWs, so you can see how the tracks were programmed.
If you know how to play guitar you can obviously do some things quite a bit faster on a real guitar (depending on your skills of course), but once you get the hang of the Ample Sound guitar engine, it becomes a great alternative to recording your own parts or session guitarists.
One of the things that took me a while to grasp is the strummer, which includes no less than 28 modes and 14 strum notes, and a library of 15 chord types and a total of 180 preset chords in 3 positions.
Typically, realistic guitar strumming is quite hard to do with a virtual instrument, and AMG certainly is not perfect. It can sound a bit lifeless, but again, you have lots of parameters to control detail of the sound (strum time, legato, humanization, etc) and with proper care in your programming you will be able to create authentic results for most strumming modes. Note that all controls of AMG can be automated by MIDI through the CPS (Customized Parameters Setting) system.
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