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AGML II

Acoustic Guitar Plugin by Ample Sound
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AGML II by Ample Sound is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin and a Software Application for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin, an AAX Plugin and a Standalone Application.
Product
Version
2.3.1
Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8
Product
Version
2.3.1
OS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8
Instrument
Formats
Copy Protection
None
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AGML II is the lite version of AGM II, recorded on the Martin D-41 acoustic guitar, Natural sustain and resonating sounds of the guitar are unadulterated.

As one of the largest free virtual instruments, AGML II provides most useful features of AGM II with 866 MB samples to satisfy accompaniment in pop music.

Sysem Requirements:

  • 6 GB of free hard disk space.
  • Windows XP or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 2 GB RAM.
  • Mac OS X 10.7 or higher, Intel-based Mac with 2 GB RAM.
  • AU, VST, VST3, AAX or RTAS host application and professional sound card recommended. Stand-alone version included.

Sampling:

  • DFD (Direct from disk).
  • Controllable Resonance.
  • Rich Fingering Noise - more vivid and realistic.
  • Finger Instrument libraries to fit different needs.
  • Each Cycle & Rhombic Sampling structure - Separate sample cycle for each note and vel layer to improve sample utilization efficiency.
  • Sustain, Hammer On & Pull Off, Palm Mute, Popping 5 articulations.

Technology:

  • Capo Logic - Intelligent play according to guitar rules.
  • Doubling Guitars - different samples at L & R.
  • CPC (Customized Parameters Control) - any button knob etc can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation.
  • Poly Legato.
  • Slide Smoother.
  • Combined Articulation - combine 2 articulations via pressing 2 keyswitches at the same time.
  • Poly Repeater.
  • Open String First for playing arpeggio.
  • Alternate Tuner.
  • Capo - Transpose without need to modify midi.

Tab Player:

  • The Tab Player can load and play several prevalent guitar tablature file formats. Users can load, display and playback any specific track inside a tablature file. When used in DAWs, the Tab Player also allows users to export the tablature as an audio file.
  • The Tab Player supports all the fingering, looping, chords, articulations and other markers in the loaded tablature. Supported articulations articulations include: Strum, Natural Harmonic, Artificial Harmonic, Hammer On/Pull Off, Trill, Bend, Tremolo Bar, Legato Slide, Slide In, Slide Out, Vibrato, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Popping, Tapping, Let Ring, Staccato, Dead Note, Grace Note, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Fade In, etc.
  • As a built-in function, the Tab Player works seamlessly with the Ample Sound instrument engine, which has extremely customized guitar playing logic so as to model a real world guitar being played. The Tab Player can even judge on its own to automatically add some refining articulations when it thinks it is appropriate, such as slapping on strings or body, or other realistic and indispensable noises.
  • Strumming is an important factor of guitar playing. By taking advantage of the Ample Guitar Strummer engine, the Tab Player can not only mingle different articulations into strumming, but can also alternate between strumming several strings (i.e. multiple notes) simultaneously and strum at a particular string (i.e. one note).

Strummer:

  • 14 Strum notes + 28 ways to play for every chord.
  • Strum Legato - HP can be played while strumming.
  • Easy Strum Time Control via velocity.
  • Body Resonance and Mute Depth.
  • Total and Each Strum time, 4 humanization settings.
  • Customized Chords in Select or Detect mode.
  • Chord inversions to Positions.
  • Strum SEQ with customized rhythm.
  • Delicate presets with Drag & Drop Support.

Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 4.50 from 2 reviews
AGML II

Reviewed By Fantozzi [all]
January 11th, 2023
Version reviewed: 2.3.1 on Windows

High sound quality - al little bit scientific, not self explanatory. While all guitars from Ample Sounds have a similar concept and you will get familiar with the interface with time for quite some time it felt not like a musical instrument but more like a computer's software. Like in those times you had to feed computers with a punch card first you can't simply play the notes but have to do some extra operations to make those notes sound well. To me personally, I found it hard to play and always needed a lot of editing later on the midi. But getting the "punch card part" right you can get a very realistic sound from it. Sometimes a bunch of sampled loops may be the better solution instead of tweaking a VST instrument a whole day to make it sound right. Or, even better, you spent the time learning to play the guitar yourself or even much more better, you save time and have a good friend playing yer guitar well. So - no matter how much science this is - it is already the best of all possible solutions if it is the one you have available (see: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who probably can explain better what I mean).

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AGML II

Reviewed By Gabriel_West [all]
January 14th, 2018
Version reviewed: 7 on Windows

Currently the best free VST Acoustic Guitar around the web with a very nice interface.

and lots of customizable settings .

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jonny_g
jonny_g
30 May 2013 at 7:17pm

Beats me how you managed to try it. I tried to download twice and each time took 25 minutes and all I got was a 25MB corrupted/incomplete file. I'd probably have to spend the rest of my life trying to download the 6GB full product. Shame because it looked quite good on the Youtube movies.

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Thohi
Thohi
9 February 2017 at 3:15pm

You may want to redact your comment here, BW. Possibly as a result of updates since 2013, most of what you're claiming is simply not true.

1. All strings and notes are freely available, with not a single pop-up, at least on my free version.

2. Same goes for using the keyboard.

3. None of the controls seem disabled to me, except one; Capo. So I guess I'll give you that one.

4. I don't have a super advanced MIDI controller, but with the stuff I tried, every MIDI learn settings was saved in my session, and recalled, and applied.

5. What kind of preset library exactly do you mean? It's meant to model one specific kind of acoustic guitar. If you want to try the other guitar/bass types they offer, you can download 7 day trials off their site.

So yeah.. It really is a full product by now, although obviously it's still meant to be an "advertisement" for their other guitar models.

Don't get me wrong, I like Spicy Guitar and Revitar, too. But they never sounds very real, do they?

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