Programming Soft Strumming on Guitar VST using Ample Guitar Martin

This is a step-by-step tutorial on programming soft transparent strum patterns using Ample Sound's Ample Guitar Martin.
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[@jmas679]

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

[@hifimidi]

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.

[@CATHARSlS]

Yooooo thx lmao i was wonderin how to do that😂

[@VoKhadilly]

Thank you man

[@AngelEowyn]

Finally, an AGM tutorial that I understand and can use. Thank you very much for this.

[@magdielrodriguez6437]

Definitely you are a Master with Ample VST Guitars. Excellent tutorial. Thank You.

[@rizzbod]

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

[@henrythejeditube]

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

[@mustechnology]

More, please! I have seen almost all of your tutorials. You are a natural teacher!

[@darrylem6157]

Great tutorial! Always wanted to add strum using midi but never knew how. Thank u!

[@voinrazuma]

This was really good! Please make more videos abot mixing the acoustic guitars (AGM, AGL, AGT )with other instruments.

[@usmankhan-vm2wj]

Just awesome, waiting for more videos on ample sounds

[@henrythejeditube]

beautiful sound from the strumming man, well done!!!

[@vivektyagi6848]

Another Masterpiece in Sound Designing. Quiet an eye opener. Many Thanks.

[@bobbyt9999]

Thank you for this Ruben... this has been really helpful - as are all your videos.

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

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.

[@ramspencer5492]

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

[@derec85]

An absolutely brilliant video. Thank you very much

[@keysbythenumbers]

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!

[@arpadternei6991]

A really great tutorial and help! Thank you a lot!!!🎼🍾❤

[@jonesing4fame922]

Gosh, it would be fantastic if Ample Sound's libraries would alternatively support the use of an MPE Controller.

[@JimmyWebley]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you very much.

[@joelonsdale]

"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 ;)

[@kazbj9265]

great tutorial Reuben

[@chrisshollinrake6826]

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.

[@DZazzybeats]

Thank you so much HIFMIDI

[@neuhausfm]

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.

[@hifimidi]

I tried that. The result was not as good.

[@neuhausfm]

@@hifimidi ok . I usually use these palm muted strums on the Ample Guitar Taylor. Love this sound.

[@southwind_music]

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?

[@takaliuang]

What is the best guitar vst for strumming as far? Love your tutorial bro

[@wilhelmhagberg8854]

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.

[@nisadifa6740]

AMAZING!!!😊

[@javiercolon9382]

Great video!!!

[@Arvind_R]

Great video, thanks for making this! Could you add links to the plugins you're using for the Piano and Bass?

[@athishayjain.m.k9257]

lovely.......very helpful....

[@MediaAO]

Hey! How are you finding the note switches' correlation with the keys? Like, how did you know F#maj = C1? and so on. Thanks

[@jameelbasyariaziz]

thank you!! i got it..

[@Velociraptarus]

Hi, can you tell me how the "time", "separations" and "velocity" knobs should be set and why they have an asterisk? Thanks

[@clock6413]

Thanks so much for this video. What would you say is the best acoustic guitar plugin for strumming? Maybe MusicLab's RealGuitar?

[@elpecemusiq6955]

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.

[@abhi-nav22]

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

[@peterbeng]

Wonderfull thanks! I only have the Ample Sound Guitar free. Can I also use it? Thanks and musician greetings Peter Bengelmann

[@hugisanmusic]

🙏

[@dionmesa9552]

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.

[@nitzy101]

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?

[@candyman3537]

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.

[@mixourband]

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.

[@hifimidi]

Dynamics are the expression level of a note. Piano means soft. Forte means loud.

[@user-dy8kd4dl2w]

how to disable change the sound \ mode when you play on the keyboard in the 6th octave? ( for any guitar from the ample guitar )

[@jack_spaer]

Hello. Great tutorial. I have question. Do you know how to make a slide between chord when strumming? Like in rocksteady guitar?

[@AleksandrPechenkin]

Very Very Good

[@ashnaura]

Thank you for the video. Quick question. What is the bass plugin you are using?

[@Sanjog6]

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.

[@tmgoOfc]

Why is it that when i make an pattern from Scratch the guitar is offbeat?

[@sinnson]

What the piano plugin vst in this video?

[@falolagabriel2201]

Why does my own key switch not work please help I assignee the key switch in th piano roll but it don't work

[@nohumanhand]

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.

[@fanomarayate1141]

How to make spanish flamenco rhythm??

[@TerenceKearns]

2:33 what "plus 6"? (I'm lost)

[@tomjones7354]

where is Am,,DM,Gm, in change chord

[@agnidathkn]

♥️

[@shaunwhatever]

Anybody know how to fix the latency issue??

[@ghoooosty]

how to create power chords?

[@user-vh1xn4fx5y]

What is Piano VST

[@zimouspero]

about the sound quality, what is opion between Realguitar and ample guitars?

[@RedArtMedia1]

Ample is better

[@jimmypanakal]

What is the string library you are using

[@Shalom_s]

which bass is that? could u please tell me?

[@Shalom_s]

and tell me about the violin also if u don't mind

[@abeth1o557]

This MIDI is available for Windows?

[@fardinshirgaokar6823]

which piano vst

[@dicktempelaar]

Is the offer still standing , all courses $ 11 ?

[@vcodev108]

can we do such stuff in native instrument guitars? please let me know Im a newbie.

[@thurdysixo]

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.

[@wilhelmhagberg4897]

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).

[@jmas679]

At 2:21 you're really losing me. So what if the song is in G minor?

[@wilhelmhagberg4897]

Just choose Bb major. It’s the relative key to G minor, thus containing the same chords.

[@Musictron]

What piano did u use for this?

[@hifimidi]

Pianoteq 8. Steinway D

[@Musictron]

Lol I thought so, nice thanks!

[@jmas679]

dude btw +6 doesnt even put it in F# it puts it in A#...........................................................................................................................................

[@Joe1992-l7u]

Are you that type of a guy who writes a bad comment everywhere ?