This is a quick introduction to the instrument: You can get Ample Guitar M II Lite on the Ample Sound website. What more can you ask for in a free guitar? There are so many fully functioning knobs and switches in this free plugin that I didn’t manage to get to all of them in my 45 minutes of playing around with it. Note that you are limited to the first four frets of each string when you’re using the lite version.

If you also use Guitar Pro Tab, you can even import your tabs into Ample Guitar M II Lite. This quickly helped me create more realistic arpeggios. One of my favorite features is the doubling switch, which adds width to the instrument in an instant.Īnother particular useful feature of Ample Guitar M II Lite is that it shows you which string corresponds to the note you’re playing. Additionally, there are a bunch of effects and features available to change the tone. The strummer makes it super easy to build patterns out of single notes, up and down strokes and mutes. The samples sound full and lively and can be triggered directly through MIDI (or your DAW) as well as through a built-in sequencer, the “strummer.” This doesn’t prevent Ample Guitar M II Lite from being the best sounding (non-Kontakt) acoustic guitar in this list, though.

The Ample Guitar M II series aims “to bring the Martin D-41 Acoustic Guitar sound to your studio.” Luckily for us, the company also released a free lite version of the instrument, which comes with a reduced sample rate, fewer articulations and features and a lower sample count than the original (by now, version III has been released already). Ample Sound is a Beijing-based company that has been creating guitar and bass VSTs since 2011.

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