Great tutorial man, so helpful for me, i was taking much time figuring out how these ample vsts work and how to put them to use. thank you hifimidi. i would never have given thought to nasal quality of acoustic guitar if you havent told
for anyone who is about to watch this tutorial, let me save you 12 minutes of your life. TO TRIGGER THE SEQUENCER IS C5 - C6, TO PLAY THE CHORDS YOU HAVE IN THE STRUMMER USE C3 - C4 THANK ME LATER
You are the actual tutorial! Thank you!!! I didn't know this for years cause there's literally no clear tutorial about it, but I learned it from your comment. Oh my god, king, you dropped this: *insert crown emoji*
Going to to want to humanize it. Especially if you're looping. If you're doubling it and humanize both, it would definitely make it feel more organic. Another good option is to use different chord voicings on a second guitar..... I do play guitar, but can now see more potential than i would have thought to get natural sounding vst acoustic strumming. Nice video. 😎 12:05
Love the approach and technique...I have done this also in production using dynamic eq and or compression to duck down the louder strokes at the song progresses to maintain the feel while reducing masking in the mid-range and competeting with other like sounding instruments. Good video!
around 10:50... I am so confused as to why starting the sample 35 ms EARLIER is causing latency that needs to be manually compensated... Why would this be?
Ruben explains this complete with visuals in this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZgAhvr3gSEg/v-deo.htmlsi=NfWN13LyGiTouJUk At the 22 min 07 second mark. I wrote this long answer then remembered that he covers it in the video linked above.😅 First, Reuben went to the plugin/settings/samples and set this to zero. This means that each sample is played from the absolute begining. If you look at the waveform of a note set this way, it looks like a gap with nothing there BEFORE you see the waveform of the note. They recorded this way to make sure they captured every possible millisecond of sound from a guitar note. Setting the plugin to zero will make it sound like everything that you play will feel just a bit late to your ears once its in your track. If you then go to your DAW and select the whole guitar track and edge it a bit earlier you will make it feel on the beat again. You are manually compensating for having the ENTIRE sample length set for the guitar, complete with the little bit of air off the top of each note, to now play in time with your track. If you don’t change anything in the plugin settings (if you don’t set samples to zero) you will be fine with the default setting. You won’t need to edge your track earlier, the default setting in Ample starts all the samples right where you wont feel any latency. So if you’re still unsure, leave it as is, dont mess with the settings in Ample, and youre good to go. Some people feel that the guitar sounds more realistic if the entire sample length is preserved, even the almost nothing bit right off the top of each guitar note recorded.
Hello HIFIMIDI nice video thanks. While setting up the note velocities @ 5:52 you used the term "Piano Dynamic" could you elaborate just a little bit on that please thanks again.
Not working with me. As i'm laying the notes on piano roll like F# maj on C1 and so on and laying the notes for chords then all the notes as playing the same chords for example if F# maj in C1 then all the notes are playing F# maj chords. Am I doing some mistake. Help me
excuse me sir, key position in my midi controller doesnt match with this vst key position . I press C3 in midi but in this VST C1, its make me confuse to follow your instruction in this great tutorial. can you help sir? thanks you.
Thanks for the tutorial, Ruben. Good sound. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the guitar is a little behind the overall rhythm of the composition. Have you watched Setting - Sample - Global Envelope?
Great video! I would just prefer if you let us here the guitar solo'ed. I like the Ample sound vst's for single notes/ picking but find it really hard to achieve realistic strumming.
This video was supposed to be about the strumming guitar, and I understand the piano is the lead instrument. This video would have been much better just hearing the guitar when you were making the fine adjustments, and then demonstrating the full mix.
"Virtual" acoustic guitar strumming always sounds fake to me, I think mainly because the velocity of each plectrum is completely even across the strings: when I strum an acoustic guitar, I am adjusting the velocity across the strings and not always hitting all the strings. For instance, when I play a standard open G-major, I might slowly and softly play the EAD strings and speed up and make louder the GBE, probably more on the first beat of each bar. The software always underestimates the complexity of a strum so it sounds fake even if the root sounds are very good. it strikes me that it wouldn't be that hard for the software designers to introduce a per-strum and per-bar speed and velocity curve that would affect the underlying MIDI part. Nevertheless, you did a great job here. I would encourage all you music makers to book session guitarists wherever possible, for around $50 upwards you could get a real guitarist onboard and help the industry in general. You might even barter your keyboard skills for their guitar skills with no money changing hands! Most guitarists have their own studio and would be happy to copy your programmed parts. Likes & subscribed ;)
Have two questions for you. 1. I imported a midi to riff and noticed there are 64 bars only. But my midi is about more than 100 bars. Is there a limitation? 2. Is it able to convert a midi to strum sound? I mean mix the picking and strum. Thanks.
Evolution guitars by orange tree has a similar strumming mode. It's a little more comprehensive imo, but this tutorial actually helped a lot better than other Ample ones I've watched so maybe they're both as easy as one another.
Native instrument guitars sound better but are very very limited. You can only use their pre defined strumming patterns (and offset these to a degree). I wish NI had this amount of tweakability (or that Ample sounded better).
Ok - anybody! I am looking for an acoustic guitar strumming plugin, must meet the following ability minimum - My chord sequence Cmaj- Cmaj7- C7 in 5/4 time, pattern user definable with the ability to specify mutes etc. I have noticed that all these plugin demos are in 4/4 time.
I have this instrument and I've hardly used it because of how complicated they have made it. I'm a keyboard player. I ended up buying UJam Amber 2, which is way easier.
dude btw +6 doesnt even put it in F# it puts it in A#...........................................................................................................................................
Finally, an AGM tutorial that I understand and can use. Thank you very much for this.
More, please! I have seen almost all of your tutorials. You are a natural teacher!
Definitely you are a Master with Ample VST Guitars. Excellent tutorial. Thank You.
I have searched for ways to make guitars vst to play this realistic, thanks so much hifimidi, by far the most realistic guitar I have heard
Great tutorial man, so helpful for me, i was taking much time figuring out how these ample vsts work and how to put them to use. thank you hifimidi. i would never have given thought to nasal quality of acoustic guitar if you havent told
This was really good!
Please make more videos abot mixing the acoustic guitars (AGM, AGL, AGT )with other instruments.
for anyone who is about to watch this tutorial, let me save you 12 minutes of your life. TO TRIGGER THE SEQUENCER IS C5 - C6, TO PLAY THE CHORDS YOU HAVE IN THE STRUMMER USE C3 - C4 THANK ME LATER
That’s not what this video is about. I’ve made many videos on strumming. This was more to do with the eq and settings to get a transparent sound.
Yooooo thx lmao i was wonderin how to do that😂
Thank you man
You are the actual tutorial! Thank you!!! I didn't know this for years cause there's literally no clear tutorial about it, but I learned it from your comment. Oh my god, king, you dropped this: *insert crown emoji*
I often use the Finger library for softer acoustic strumming as well. And sidechain compression for when it’s played with vocals or a keyboard.
beautiful sound from the strumming man, well done!!!
Great tutorial! Always wanted to add strum using midi but never knew how.
Thank u!
Thanks the EQ was very useful, and the melody is beautiful.
Just awesome, waiting for more videos on ample sounds
Going to to want to humanize it. Especially if you're looping. If you're doubling it and humanize both, it would definitely make it feel more organic. Another good option is to use different chord voicings on a second guitar..... I do play guitar, but can now see more potential than i would have thought to get natural sounding vst acoustic strumming. Nice video. 😎 12:05
Thank you for another great video.
Thank you for this Ruben... this has been really helpful - as are all your videos.
Hey! How are you finding the note switches' correlation with the keys? Like, how did you know F#maj = C1? and so on. Thanks
What is the best guitar vst for strumming as far? Love your tutorial bro
Another Masterpiece in Sound Designing. Quiet an eye opener. Many Thanks.
A really great tutorial and help! Thank you a lot!!!🎼🍾❤
2:33 what "plus 6"? (I'm lost)
Love the approach and technique...I have done this also in production using dynamic eq and or compression to duck down the louder strokes at the song progresses to maintain the feel while reducing masking in the mid-range and competeting with other like sounding instruments. Good video!
around 10:50... I am so confused as to why starting the sample 35 ms EARLIER is causing latency that needs to be manually compensated... Why would this be?
Ruben explains this complete with visuals in this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZgAhvr3gSEg/v-deo.htmlsi=NfWN13LyGiTouJUk
At the 22 min 07 second mark.
I wrote this long answer then remembered that he covers it in the video linked above.😅
First, Reuben went to the plugin/settings/samples and set this to zero. This means that each sample is played from the absolute begining. If you look at the waveform of a note set this way, it looks like a gap with nothing there BEFORE you see the waveform of the note. They recorded this way to make sure they captured every possible millisecond of sound from a guitar note. Setting the plugin to zero will make it sound like everything that you play will feel just a bit late to your ears once its in your track. If you then go to your DAW and select the whole guitar track and edge it a bit earlier you will make it feel on the beat again. You are manually compensating for having the ENTIRE sample length set for the guitar, complete with the little bit of air off the top of each note, to now play in time with your track. If you don’t change anything in the plugin settings (if you don’t set samples to zero) you will be fine with the default setting. You won’t need to edge your track earlier, the default setting in Ample starts all the samples right where you wont feel any latency. So if you’re still unsure, leave it as is, dont mess with the settings in Ample, and youre good to go. Some people feel that the guitar sounds more realistic if the entire sample length is preserved, even the almost nothing bit right off the top of each guitar note recorded.
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What the piano plugin vst in this video?
Gosh, it would be fantastic if Ample Sound's libraries would alternatively support the use of an MPE Controller.
An absolutely brilliant video. Thank you very much
can i play the chords on the keyboard and use other keys on the keyboard for the up down strokes and mute strokes in the pattern?
Hi, can you tell me how the "time", "separations" and "velocity" knobs should be set and why they have an asterisk? Thanks
Hello HIFIMIDI nice video thanks. While setting up the note velocities @ 5:52 you used the term "Piano Dynamic" could you elaborate just a little bit on that please thanks again.
Dynamics are the expression level of a note. Piano means soft. Forte means loud.
Not working with me. As i'm laying the notes on piano roll like F# maj on C1 and so on and laying the notes for chords then all the notes as playing the same chords for example if F# maj in C1 then all the notes are playing F# maj chords.
Am I doing some mistake. Help me
I use FL Studio 2024 et I noticed that there are some precepts that are behind the metronome how to fix the problem ? Help me please
excuse me sir, key position in my midi controller doesnt match with this vst key position . I press C3 in midi but in this VST C1, its make me confuse to follow your instruction in this great tutorial. can you help sir? thanks you.
Thanks for the tutorial, Ruben. Good sound.
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the guitar is a little behind the overall rhythm of the composition.
Have you watched Setting - Sample - Global Envelope?
how to set time signature and tempo of ample coz wen i create a rydthm and shift to the piano roll the tempo/time signature runs in diferent tempo.
Wonderfull thanks! I only have the Ample Sound Guitar free. Can I also use it? Thanks and musician greetings Peter Bengelmann
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you very much.
how to disable change the sound \ mode when you play on the keyboard in the 6th octave? ( for any guitar from the ample guitar )
great tutorial Reuben
Why is it that when i make an pattern from Scratch the guitar is offbeat?
What is the string library you are using
How to make spanish flamenco rhythm??
Hello. Great tutorial.
I have question. Do you know how to make a slide between chord when strumming? Like in rocksteady guitar?
Thanks so much for this video. What would you say is the best acoustic guitar plugin for strumming? Maybe MusicLab's RealGuitar?
Great walk through, thanks. If you don´t want to hear the tone of the guitar I would use the palm mute strokes of the Ample Guitar.
I tried that. The result was not as good.
@@hifimidi ok . I usually use these palm muted strums on the Ample Guitar Taylor. Love this sound.
This MIDI is available for Windows?
how to create power chords?
Thank you so much HIFMIDI
Great video! I would just prefer if you let us here the guitar solo'ed. I like the Ample sound vst's for single notes/ picking but find it really hard to achieve realistic strumming.
in your daw...how do you get a strum by just placing a note in the midi tab? i dont see any chord formation?
Anybody know how to fix the latency issue??
Thank you for the video. Quick question. What is the bass plugin you are using?
Why does my own key switch not work please help
I assignee the key switch in th piano roll but it don't work
Great video, thanks for making this! Could you add links to the plugins you're using for the Piano and Bass?
This video was supposed to be about the strumming guitar, and I understand the piano is the lead instrument. This video would have been much better just hearing the guitar when you were making the fine adjustments, and then demonstrating the full mix.
What is Piano VST
"Virtual" acoustic guitar strumming always sounds fake to me, I think mainly because the velocity of each plectrum is completely even across the strings: when I strum an acoustic guitar, I am adjusting the velocity across the strings and not always hitting all the strings. For instance, when I play a standard open G-major, I might slowly and softly play the EAD strings and speed up and make louder the GBE, probably more on the first beat of each bar. The software always underestimates the complexity of a strum so it sounds fake even if the root sounds are very good. it strikes me that it wouldn't be that hard for the software designers to introduce a per-strum and per-bar speed and velocity curve that would affect the underlying MIDI part. Nevertheless, you did a great job here.
I would encourage all you music makers to book session guitarists wherever possible, for around $50 upwards you could get a real guitarist onboard and help the industry in general. You might even barter your keyboard skills for their guitar skills with no money changing hands! Most guitarists have their own studio and would be happy to copy your programmed parts.
Likes & subscribed ;)
which piano vst
which bass is that? could u please tell me?
and tell me about the violin also if u don't mind
Have two questions for you. 1. I imported a midi to riff and noticed there are 64 bars only. But my midi is about more than 100 bars. Is there a limitation? 2. Is it able to convert a midi to strum sound? I mean mix the picking and strum. Thanks.
where is Am,,DM,Gm, in change chord
AMAZING!!!😊
Great video!!!
about the sound quality, what is opion between Realguitar and ample guitars?
Ample is better
At 2:21 you're really losing me. So what if the song is in G minor?
Just choose Bb major. It’s the relative key to G minor, thus containing the same chords.
can we do such stuff in native instrument guitars? please let me know Im a newbie.
Evolution guitars by orange tree has a similar strumming mode. It's a little more comprehensive imo, but this tutorial actually helped a lot better than other Ample ones I've watched so maybe they're both as easy as one another.
Native instrument guitars sound better but are very very limited. You can only use their pre defined strumming patterns (and offset these to a degree). I wish NI had this amount of tweakability (or that Ample sounded better).
lovely.......very helpful....
thank you!! i got it..
Ok - anybody! I am looking for an acoustic guitar strumming plugin, must meet the following ability minimum - My chord sequence Cmaj- Cmaj7- C7 in 5/4 time, pattern user definable with the ability to specify mutes etc.
I have noticed that all these plugin demos are in 4/4 time.
What piano did u use for this?
Pianoteq 8. Steinway D
Lol I thought so, nice thanks!
Very Very Good
I have this instrument and I've hardly used it because of how complicated they have made it. I'm a keyboard player.
I ended up buying UJam Amber 2, which is way easier.
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dude btw +6 doesnt even put it in F# it puts it in A#...........................................................................................................................................
Are you that type of a guy who writes a bad comment everywhere ?