Acoustic Guitar Strums?

That first one, check out OT Andea. Can buy things like the ronroco a la carte.

I'm also looking for an acoustic guitar lib with strums (as well as a guitar able to do melodies). As far as I know, NI guitars are cool, but limited in the strums and patterns (I have Electric Mint and Picked Nylon). In some post here I read about Orange Tree Samples guitars. Seems nice and very playable, but I cant tell much more about it.

Orange Tree samples are great, very playable, and their engine has a strum designer so you can create your own strums. I haven’t delved too deeply into the strum designer yet but it seems pretty capable.

Francisco Lamolda said:

I'm also looking for an acoustic guitar lib with strums (as well as a guitar able to do melodies). As far as I know, NI guitars are cool, but limited in the strums and patterns (I have Electric Mint and Picked Nylon). In some post here I read about Orange Tree Samples guitars. Seems nice and very playable, but I cant tell much more about it.

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The strumming engine is abysmal in Orange Tree Samples plugins. One of the clunkiest, arkwardest engines I've ever come across although the actual samples are superb and are among the best if you want to create authentic sounding melodies or lead lines.

For strum programming and feature-set, you're not going to beat Amplesound's offerings. Best guitar plugins on the market imo.

I've recently purchased MG Soft Acoustic Guitar sold via Spitfire Audio. That sounds lovely and has got a really good strumming engine along with other cool features.

@d4vec4rter - do you have any favorites of the Ample acoustic guitars? I have several of the Ample China instruments and they are fantastic. I’m interested in the acoustics but they have several.

danstein said:

@d4vec4rter - do you have any favorites of the Ample acoustic guitars? I have several of the Ample China instruments and they are fantastic. I’m interested in the acoustics but they have several.

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In the acoustic guitars, I have the AGT (Taylor) and the AG SJ (Gibson). I have many other Ample instruments (Electrics, China, etc.) because I find they are superbly designed and so intuitive to use and program. The Strummer and Riffer features are particularly good.

For the last melodic part - a cool free Latin guitar, the sound is awesome:

Thanks all! I also totally forgot the Ample Sound freebie guitar, might try that first. The Orange Tree guitars sound good too, I was looking at the Native Instruments ones at first, but I'm afraid it's gonna be too limited like Francisco said.

I also got the Guitarra from Andea from last year's OT coupon, I'll explore more of that too!

Btw I'll just add another great Powell guitar track in here...

Bara Matahari Pagi said:

Sooo...I'm a huge Powell fan right now lol, and I'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions for John Powell-esque acoustic guitars? I'm especially talking about strums (but of course, bonus points if it can do melodies well too!).

Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about (timestamped).








(this is more of a melodic type thing)

Also, please let me know if there are some free alternatives! Would help a lot haha, thanks in advance guys

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Best sounding strums from what i tried so far: Ample Sounds. I don't know what it is but to me it sounds more classical than orangetree samples or atleast its easier for me to get the sound i desire when i comes to strumming. :D

Bara Matahari Pagi said:

I also got the Guitarra from Andea from last year's OT coupon, I'll explore more of that too!

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That might work.

I don’t think either the Orange Tree or Ample Sound guitars will work very well at emulating the type of sound in your examples. Strummed chords artificially constructed out of single note samples are more flexible, but they rarely sound very realistic. The NI session guitarist VIs are much better for strumming, but if they don’t have a pattern you’re looking for, you have to graft together what you want out of parts of patterns.

Freebee - OT Strand Guitars are pretty great

danstein said:

@d4vec4rter - do you have any favorites of the Ample acoustic guitars? I have several of the Ample China instruments and they are fantastic. I’m interested in the acoustics but they have several.

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I love the Taylor, but they all sound pretty good to me

d4vec4rter said:

I've recently purchased MG Soft Acoustic Guitar sold via Spitfire Audio. That sounds lovely and has got a really good strumming engine along with other cool features.

Soft Acoustic Guitar — Spitfire Audio

www.spitfireaudio.com

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Ooo, I have my eye on this one. Do you find it very playable?

I think that Musical Sampling's Nylon Rustique would match the solo sound in your last track. I do not own this library.

https://musicalsampling.com/nylon-rustique/

Also, check out FingerPick from Realitone for the solo line. Be sure to get the "nylon bundle" which only costs a little more but gives you a nylon guitar sound. I own this library and it has a nice sound.

https://realitone.com/products/fingerpick-2-0?

For strums, the NI guitars are very realistic, but you have to use their chord patterns.

Scarlet Jerry

jonnybutter said:

Ooo, I have my eye on this one. Do you find it very playable?

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I'm not a keyboard player so I'm more into MIDI programming these sort of plugins but it has a well designed engine and is relatively easy to program. Like all plugins of this sort, the more work and effort you're prepared to put into it, the better it will sound. The demos on the Spitfire Audio site are superb.

Bara Matahari Pagi said:

Sooo...I'm a huge Powell fan right now lol, and I'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions for John Powell-esque acoustic guitars? I'm especially talking about strums (but of course, bonus points if it can do melodies well too!).

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I love this style as well. I have a number of the guitars mentioned and have also been trying to get this sounds. One that I can recommend that gets close and has a number of options (strum, arp, picked) is Indiginus Renaxxance II Nylon String guitar: https://www.indiginus.com/renaxxance-ii-nylon-string-guitar. It's really an incredible library for a great price. The very fast strummed guitar parts are referred to as rasgueado in this library. The Native Instruments picked acoustic and nylon are also pretty good for strumming/picked patterns (including some with flamenco/rasgueado style strumming), but not as convincing for exposed or melodic lines. The Nylon Rustique library by musical sampling is good for exposed legato lines and picking, but doesn't have as many options for strumming.

I used to use a lot of guitar VSTs and never got the results I wanted. In my opinion, it is well worth picking up a used guitar and learning how to strum basic chords. I would say with a small daily effort for a few months you'll be able to strum chords more naturally than any guitar VST out there. For something quick and dirty that you can tuck and hide in the mix, all of these suggestions here are pretty good.

antoniopandrade said:

I used to use a lot of guitar VSTs and never got the results I wanted. In my opinion, it is well worth picking up a used guitar and learning how to strum basic chords. I would say with a small daily effort for a few months you'll be able to strum chords more naturally than any guitar VST out there. For something quick and dirty that you can tuck and hide in the mix, all of these suggestions here are pretty good.

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After years of trying to wrangle vst guitars, that’s the conclusion I’ve recently come to as well.

I’ll replace a bad library buying habit with an excessive guitar buying one instead.

That said, the new SF one was a bit of a siren call..

Ooh I've never heard of some of the libraries mentioned here, I'll check all of them out, thank you guys!

antoniopandrade said:

I used to use a lot of guitar VSTs and never got the results I wanted. In my opinion, it is well worth picking up a used guitar and learning how to strum basic chords. I would say with a small daily effort for a few months you'll be able to strum chords more naturally than any guitar VST out there.

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Yeah I guess this is the most realistic way to do it haha. I do have a cheap nylon guitar at home and know some very basic chords (although it might be worth learning some more!). I don't have a microphone or a properly treated room though, which is why I haven't been doing any recording/sampling yet. But when I do get a microphone, I'll definitely try to record more stuff, including guitars!