Ample Sound

Installation is tricky and a bit weird with instructions were unclear. PSA: Download the iLoK license key manager manually from their website, the instruction manual does not mention this part (only says to run the manager) and the plugin won't work until you activate. Took me a while to get it working.

I was sketched out by the DRM at first but it's not nearly as invasive as Kontakt and such.

I would dock a star for the complicated setup and DRM process this if the instrument were not absolutely incredible.
Not only is the sound quality superb, the playing utility is amazing. Not only is it not note restricted like the others, the phrases are embedded in key combinations. I have been using it with FL and having a blast.

To give you an idea of the quality, I paid 170 dollars for this instrument and spent four hours trying to navigate an unclear instruction setup and some weird DRM software, and I'm still going to give it five stars.

This is a really good take on the amazing Jaco Pastorius sound in the earlier days of his creative run. Whoever did the sampling was deifnitely a fan.

I have three items that I I have obtained by Amplesound...two paid for.

The free electric bass was an easy install. The upright bass was a little tricky.

But the erhu was a royal pain. I worked on it for days. I asked for assistance on the forum and never got anything except for the standard installation procedure I used that was on my profile. So I asked for more, six days ago and never received a reply.

There was another customer having similar issues and I never saw a reply to him in the two months he posted his request.

I like the things I got but I just can't do business with Amplesound again.

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).

Works great for all intents and purposes.

Not happy about the vibrato, but I play my own anyway.

Traditional Chinese flute: Ample China Dadi (Bass Dizi).

https://youtu.be/9CrKsL55IaU

Another wonderful flute by Ample Sound and this time a bass dizi. As with the other flutes you get reach and full sounding flute plus a list of articulations and playing technics.

This is so much inspiration and actually fun virtual instrument.

There are also 4 effects: Compressor, EQ, Delay and Reverb.

More reviews and tutorials at UDi Audio

This is a very inspiring VST. The overall sound quality is incredible and I can get a lot of variations from one instrument. Some of the notes seem to have a bit of a rattle or dissonance at certain velocities, and there is rare occasion where a note will stick out like a sore thumb among the rest especially in a riff or arpeggio.

I love the ambience you can create with Cloudrum, and the internal effects are brilliant. If there was a version (paid or free really) that had more drum types featured I would definitely get it.

Without doubt the best free e-bass plugin you can find.
Before I bought Modo, I always used ABPL II if a realistic sounding bass was required.