Ample Guitar Twelve

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

by Ample Sound · Instrument · Sampled 12-string acoustic guitar

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Ample Guitar Twelve is a sampled Taylor 956 CE 12-string acoustic guitar that runs in Ample Sound's own plugin.

It includes strum, fingerstyle and thumb-pick libraries, 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, chord generator, sample-based, bright, arpeggiator, clean, monophonic, classic, polyphonic, sequencer, smooth, visual feedback.

What it does

Ample Guitar Twelve (AG12) aims to bring "a Taylor 956 CE 12-string Guitar sound" to your studio. It covers the bright, doubled-course sound of a 12-string acoustic, which few virtual instruments offer.

Samples: a library with three sample sets: Strum, Fingerstyle and Thumb-Pick.
Articulations: sustain, palm mute, natural harmonic, hammer-on and pull-off, legato slide, slide in, slide out and pop.
Legato and tuning: a polyphonic legato and slide smoother for realistic legato at any interval and speed, and drop tuning down to D1.
Riffer 4: a MIDI riff editor with piano-roll and tab views, a unified strum and chord system, string visualisation, MIDI import and export, and a riff library.
Strummer: chord detection plus custom chords, with a rhythm sequencer and library you can drag into the DAW as MIDI.
Tab Reader 4: imports Guitar Pro GP3 to GP8 files, keeping fingering and performance data.
Effects: 8-band EQ, compressor, delay and convolution reverb.

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Source: Ample Sound product page

When to use it

Ample Guitar Twelve fills a narrow niche: a real 12-string jangle, with tab import and a strummer for writing parts from MIDI, where MusicLab's RealGuitar is a sampled 6-string with strumming tools and Ample Sound's own Guitar M and T are standard 6-string acoustics. Choose it when a track needs a true 12-string rather than a chorus effect on a 6-string; as a reviewer suggests, it works best as a second guitar next to a good 6-string library.

Best for: 12-string strumming and arpeggios in folk, pop and classic-rock style arrangements.
Genres: pop, rock, folk and acoustic music.
Look elsewhere if: you need a standard 6-string acoustic (Ample Guitar M or T), or loose, sloppy live-style takes, which it doesn't imitate well.
Tip: Bedroom Producers Blog suggests layering two instances with slightly different tuning for a detuned "swirl".

What producers say

Reviewers praise its bright, clean 12-string tone, with vibrato realism the main reservation.

Bedroom Producers Blog (2018) scored it 88%, calling the sound "sparkly and bright" with clean samples that avoid machine-gun repeats, and rating performance 10/10.
VI-Control review (2023) praised the sound and the engine, which can play "from arpeggios to strums and patterns".
Criticisms: Bedroom Producers Blog found the vibrato "not exactly realistic" and noted fewer round-robin samples in higher positions.

Where to buy

Ample Sound: $169
Plugin Boutique: $169

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