Ample Guitar T

Name: Ample Guitar T
Price: 169 USD
Author: Ample Sound

by Ample Sound · Instrument · Sampled acoustic guitar (Taylor 714CE)

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Ample Guitar T is a sampled Taylor 714CE steel-string acoustic guitar that runs in Ample Sound's own plugin.

It has 9 articulations including slide guitar, a riff editor, a strummer and Guitar Pro tab import. It costs $169.

Best for: Guitars, Acoustic Instruments. Genres: Pop, Rock & Indie, Jazz, Acoustic & Classical.

Keywords: guitar instrument, sample-based, bright, chord generator, monophonic, polyphonic, sequencer, smooth.

What it does

Ample Guitar T is Ample Sound's sampled Taylor 714CE, a bright steel-string acoustic. The developer's stated aim is to bring "a Taylor 714CE Acoustic Guitar sound" to your studio, played from MIDI with guitar-aware tools.

Three sample sets: a library with Fingerstyle, Pick and Strum recordings.
Nine articulations: sustain, palm mute, natural harmonic, hammer-on and pull-off, legato slide, slide in, slide out, pop and slide guitar.
Realism: left-hand performance noises and adjustable acoustic resonance.
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.
Effects: 8-band EQ, compressor, delay and convolution reverb.

The product page shows no version number; Thomann lists the current edition as version 4.

Source: Ample Sound product page

When to use it

Ample Guitar T is a programmable steel-string acoustic, so you build parts note by note or from tab rather than triggering loops. It does a different job from Heavier7Strings (Three-Body Technology), the rated guitar instrument on the site, which is a metal electric. Compared with Tonalic (Celemony, rated), which plays recorded human performances that follow your chords, it is slower for backing parts but more editable. It works in a similar MIDI-driven way to MusicLab RealGuitar. Within Ample's range, Guitar T is the brighter, more modern-sounding acoustic, and Guitar M (the Martin) is the fuller dreadnought.

Best for: bright strummed and fingerpicked parts that need to cut through a pop mix.
Genres: pop, rock, acoustic, singer-songwriter and country.
Look elsewhere if: you want a darker, bigger body (Ample Guitar M), nylon strings (Ample Guitar L), or quick chord-following backing without programming (Tonalic).

What producers say

There is little recent feedback, and it is mixed: the sound gets praise, the workflow less so.

Thomann users rate version 4 at 2.7 out of 5 from 3 reviews; two liked the samples and the value, while one called the usability "a middle catastrophe" and complained of slow library downloads and hard-to-reach support.
KVR user (2013, one review) gave 5 out of 5, calling it "a great sounding guitar, definitely worth the money" with plenty to dig into.
Criticisms: a Thomann user found strumming expression limited and said it takes effort to get the best from it.

Where to buy

Ample Sound: $169
Plugin Boutique: $169

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