Ample Guitar Semi Hollow

Name: Ample Guitar Semi Hollow
Price: 149 USD
Author: Ample Sound

by Ample Sound · Instrument · Sampled semi-hollow electric guitar (Gibson ES-335)

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Ample Guitar Semi Hollow is a sampled Gibson ES-335 semi-hollow electric guitar (neck pickup) that runs in Ample Sound's own plugin.

It has fingerstyle and pick libraries, 10 articulations, a built-in amp section, a riff editor and Guitar Pro tab import. It costs $149.

Best for: Guitars. Genres: Jazz, Acoustic & Classical, R&B & Soul, Rock & Indie.

Keywords: guitar instrument, sample-based, warm, chord generator, clean, monophonic, leads, polyphonic, sequencer, smooth.

What it does

Ample Guitar Semi Hollow samples a Gibson ES-335 played on its neck pickup. The developer says it "sounds warm and soft" and aims it at jazz fusion and blues.

Two sample sets: a library with Fingerstyle and Pick recordings.
Ten articulations: sustain, palm mute, natural harmonic, hammer-on and pull-off, legato slide, slide in, slide out, pop, pinch harmonic and dead note.
Realism: left-hand performance noises.
Legato and tuning: a polyphonic legato and slide smoother for legato at any interval and speed, and drop tuning with the lowest note down to D1.
Riffer 4: a MIDI riff editor that switches between piano-roll and guitar-tab views, treats chords as single Strum Note objects, stops two notes landing on one string, has CC and velocity editors, and comes with hundreds of riffs.
Strummer and Tab Reader 4: the Strummer detects chords in two modes (or takes custom chords) and plays them through a strum sequencer with a rhythm library you can drag out as MIDI; Tab Reader imports Guitar Pro GP3 to GP8 files with fingering and articulations kept.
Amp and effects: an amp section with 7 heads and 8 cabinets, each captured with 8 microphones, plus 8-band EQ, compressor, delay and convolution reverb.

The product page shows no version number; Thomann lists it as version 4.

Source: Ample Sound product page

When to use it

Ample Guitar Semi Hollow is one of the few sampled guitars built for a warm jazz-box tone rather than rock. It sits at the opposite end from Heavier7Strings (Three-Body Technology), the rated guitar instrument on the site, which is aimed at high-gain metal. Unlike Tonalic (Celemony, rated), which offers recorded human performances that follow your chords but is an acoustic tool, it is a hollow-body electric. Like MusicLab's RealGuitar line, it is a sampled guitar with MIDI tools. Within Ample's range, the TC and LP electrics are brighter; Semi Hollow is the pick for mellow, rounded lines and comping, with its own amp section so it works without extra plugins.

Best for: warm clean lines, chord comping and soft lead parts.
Genres: jazz, fusion, blues, soul and R&B.
Look elsewhere if: you need bright single-coil twang (Ample Guitar TC) or high-gain metal (Heavier7Strings).
Tip: Sample Library Review suggested a clean tone with a little reverb, and playing at very soft velocities for delicate passages.

What producers say

Feedback is positive and centres on the soft, buttery tone; most of it covers the earlier Hollow II edition.

Sample Library Review (reviewing the earlier Ample Guitar Hollow II Fingerstyle) "heartily" recommended it for a classic hollow-body sound, praising the tone, tab-to-MIDI and capo logic; it noted the neck pickup was fixed and that edition was fingerstyle only.
Thomann users rate the current edition 5 out of 5 from 2 ratings; one called it a "super customizable semi-hollow" with a soft, mellow tone.

Where to buy

Ample Sound: $149
Plugin Boutique: $149

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