Ample Sound Summer Sale

[Brian]

https://www.amplesound.net/en/purchase.asp

 

20-66% Off (The more you buy, the bigger the discount) Ends July 30

[fretman]

By far my favorite VSTi. This is the time to stock up.

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[Xandre]

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

 

Xandre
Chaos Scatterbrain with a plethora of 4 bar loop projects, and barely any songs

[antler]

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?

 

You (probably) can’t go wrong with either. They’re both highly respected. I’d say go with the one that fits your workflow if you can’t decide. Ample Sound have some demos of a few of their other instruments (if you’ve never used their engine before); OTS are Kontakt instruments.

In any case, I’d recommend downloading some of their freebies anyway (same link as above).

https://www.amplesound.net/en/download.asp

[Peter DeLegge]

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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[fretman]

I have not tried the OTS 12-string so I can’t weigh in on that. But I can say that the AS 12-string sounds exactly like my fancy Taylor 12-string. Very well done. Once I heard it I didn’t need to try anything else. They both have demo MIDI files you can download and study to see how they work, which I highly recommend.

Here’s a piece in Drop D I wrote way back when I got my first 12-string. The recording came out pretty badly so I used Melodyne to convert it to MIDI and replaced the audio with AS 12-string samples. It took some editing and keyswitches but this version pretty accurately replicates what I play. I actually got to broadcast to an auditorium with over 1000 people to review for a sync opportunity (which I didn’t get) and no one could tell it was a VSTi (as far as I know). This just shows how realistic AS instruments can be. I imagine OTS has the same ability. I just don’t have the same amount of experience using their instruments.

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

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[Peter DeLegge]

On fretman said

I have not tried the OTS 12-string so I can’t weigh in on that. But I can say that the AS 12-string sounds exactly like my fancy Taylor 12-string. Very well done. Once I heard it I didn’t need to try anything else. They both have demo MIDI files you can download and study to see how they work, which I highly recommend.

Here’s a piece in Drop D I wrote way back when I got my first 12-string. The recording came out pretty badly so I used Melodyne to convert it to MIDI and replaced the audio with AS 12-string samples. It took some editing and keyswitches but this version pretty accurately replicates what I play. I actually got to broadcast to an auditorium with over 1000 people to review for a sync opportunity (which I didn’t get) and no one could tell it was a VSTi (as far as I know). This just shows how realistic AS instruments can be. I imagine OTS has the same ability. I just don’t have the same amount of experience using their instruments.

Nice job on the song! I like it.

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[Peter DeLegge]

Here’s the Evolution Jumbo 12 String for comparison:

https://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/TimeAndTimeAgain.mp3

https://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/WhatHappensNow.mp3

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