You want to learn Ample Sound fast and there's no tutorials? Here ya go:

4 8 string Guitars hitting a whole ton of stuff in under 2 minutes you'll master Ample Sound. Think about it this way, if you slow the video to 50%, watch each one of the 4 for the duration, that's like a master course in under 16 minutes of your time.

Or speed it up to 200%, and you can watch em all individual in under 4 minutes.

Master in 4 minutes, what more can ya ask for?

(~ sarcasm, but that 50% speed is what I did to get some idea when I used them lol)

 

i think that is why (to my ears) the musiclab is the least realistic sounding - especially for sustained notes.

 

i've never heard anything from aas strum that i thought sounded like a guitar. the xhun iron axe can produce very realistic results within limitations.

 

I bought Strum GS2 and use Electric DI - Throw it through an Amp Sim (Usually S-Gear for Bright/Clean sounds). That sounds pretty close if you want to strum. Also I only really use it for ambience. I like how it plays but really Instachord kinda does the same thing and it's got a wider range(Without switches). Tempted to use it more for strumming since it can.

Choices... So many choices.

 

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+1 with what @Iggy said.
it's no bother for me to split the MIDI and make a composite of two clean guitars, and then put them both through the same cab and fx! Oldschool maybe, but doing stuff like that since the start of daws. (47 in less than 2 weeks!)

Interesting to read that.
As a keyboard player, with guitar as my second instrument, I can now get down in one live take what I want from either a rhythm or solo part. i.e. minutes. So you will only get faster at it, I believe.

@Xupito +1 with the Ample Sound's Strummer, Riffer and Tab Player! All more versaile than OTS's pattern thing, but have produced great results with that too.
Might have to point out some more precise facts about OTS. But maybe offtopic, so.

 

I think it's on topic. Like you a lot of us are keyboard guitarists, good to know what others have learnt.

 

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Awww. but it's the 'precise' bit that requires effort! I've just had a laugh cigarette, as one of our spanish friends here called it, and it means opening Kontakt or daw. Which all seems too Babylon at the moment.
Just wanna type-ity typey type with y'all.

 

Holy glory, for a tenth I thought they were ironing boards, damn it...

Just the opposite, in fact I have the moral authority to ask you after doing the same myself with three companies. Damn, what are you waiting for?!!!!

As a Spanish too it's shameful to see a poor junkie bastard like that bloke. Shame on him
Oh, wait.... mmm, forget the moral authority thing... forget it all

 

...is your quote!

Okay, will boot up and have a look at my OTS libs...

 

Having poor memory sure is hard...

We won't push too much. With a screencast of a decent cover of the Stairway to heaven guitar solo is enough... probably

 

If he does it... I might sing the lyric's. Improve Guitar cover forum.

 

Can't speak for Xhun Iron Axe, but Strum is garbage. AAAS does a great modeled electric piano, but Strum just sounds awful -- it almost sounds like Lounge Lizard with some bad digital distortion FX.

 

My take on Realguitar was always that it was pretty much garbage, and my memories of the electrics were also that they were pretty much garbage as well. But I just went and listened to the demos and dang, RealEight sounds pretty good, at least for lead. Gonna have to give it a new look!

 

Cool! That's what I noticed about MusicLab. For the lead part, it is great, but for rhythm part, it's kinda meh~. However, I recently found that changing fret position makes the sound better. I've got pretty good result recently. It is still not good enough, of course, but it's been better.
About Electri6ity, it's overwhelming to me like Prominy stuff. I rather go with Shreddage for rhythm part.

 

I agree! Electri6ity can probably do anything you need it to do, but the amount of effort and tweaking tp get there isn't worth it for me. As for Shreddage, I totally dismissed Shreddage 1 when it first came out, but decided to revisit Shreddage 3 Legacy and was doing everything I needed to do with it in about five minutes. I now own most of the Shreddage 3 libraries and they all sound pretty damn great.

They sound great for leads, especially now that they have actual pickup selection. I've used RealStrat and RealLPC for rhythm parts, but they really don't work for rhythm and chord stuff. RealStrat and RealGuitar also now have all-new 24-bit/96 kHz "Elite" libraries that are a step up from the older stuff.

 

Check RealLPC out too. It's great. But, I can't recommend RealStrat and RealGuitar.

 

You were wrong. I'm a mouse guitarist!

 

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Sure. Legacy and Serpent sound really great amongst the Shreddage 3 series.

 

I forgot to mention that YT guy is one of the gurus of rock/metal covers using virtual guitars. Really dope tracks. One of the proofs that Ample Sound's are the best for programming is the quantity of covers (or any complex and long track for that matter) you see on YT.

I remember posting a couple years ago in one of his awesome covers something like: "Very cool? did you use Ample Sound's tab player"
Reply: "Thanks. Tab player? Not at all. I did all by ear". Well, ahem,... yeah, sure, of course you did

Actually some advanced VSTi guitars users do that. You can make up quite a bit for the lack of realism vs a real guitar using two instances as one. I'm not sure if it's what you do.

They're the oldest guitar libs, I actually bought Prominy V-Metal and back in the day was awesome, but their playability/scripting is totally outdated.

I feel you fellow comrade mousitarrst!!

 

FWIW, I compiled and uploaded some resources and tuts to learn Shreddage 3 programming a while ago. It doesn't include the videos but they're listed, just plain YT videos.
Shreddage 3 learning kit:
https://mega.nz/file/WB4m2YKR#RtDF5js2vBPDiO97tu9khRHgWcuNz8gF0L99v-FcueY

Edited: pass: xupito (sorry...)

 

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