Reply To: Ample Sound Summer Sale

[peter]

On Xandre said

I’m looking to add a 12-String VST to my collection. But I can’t decide between OTS and Ample Sound, any recommendations?

 

I think OTS and Ample Sound are the two most realistic virtual guitars in the business. I would recommend listening closely to the tone. I greatly prefer the tone of OTS guitars over Ample Sound. Second, I’d recommend looking through walkthrough videos to get a feel for which workflow best suits you. Another factor for me is that I’m not a big fan of small developers making their own plugins. If the developer goes under or dies, there will be no more updates. At least with a Kontakt developer, you can bet that the library will likely work for many Kontakt versions in the future.

I think everyone here know this, but I’ll repeat it. I’ve consulted to Orange Tree Samples and was a superfan who approached Greg right after he started Orange Tree Samples — sharing my bio and telling him I’d love to share my ideas for the kind of guitar line I thnk he should be doing, which became the Evolution line. Plus, I’m a friend. So you can easily discount everything I’m writing as biased. But I don’t think anyone in this industry has been more obsessed with guitar sample libraries than me. At one point or another I had given advice to several guitar sample libraries and count Andrea (Pettinhouse) as a friend.  Twelve years ago the developer who made Electricity and I used to chat and he told me that he reverse-engineered Evolution to come up with that collection, but it languished. Andrew Aversa (Impact Soundworks) had told me that he saw Shreddage as a more genre focused very cut down version of what Evolution was doing; that he had no plans to make something so detailed.

So, I think narrowing down your choices to Orange Tree Samples Evolution and Ample Sound are exactly the two most sophisticated virtual guitars on the market. At that point, I think it comes down to the workflow and tone you prefer. But as Antler wrote, you probably can’t go wrong with either one.

It just struck me. another factor is resale. Orange Tree Samples allows for the resale of their libraries, whereas Ample Sound allows you to resell your library, but it becomes NFR, so the person who buys it cannot resell it. Of course, that can impact your ability to sell the plugin.

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