Ample Sound Super Jumbo Explained
Eli Krantzberg presents a detailed series of Super Jumbo tutorials! Learn Super Jumbo, Ample Sounds’s incredibly realistic virtual acoustic guitar instrument inside and out, as well as how to use it creatively.
Videos
• Introduction (03:39) - Learn about Ample Guitar Super Jumbo, and see where the different features and functions are accessed in the interface.
• Playing Modes & Articulations (07:00) - Learn about Instrument Mode, Keyboard Mode, and Solo Mode, and see how each of the articulations and their key switches work.
• Controlling the Playback Sound (08:40) - Explore the Mic Modes, Doubling, Finger, Resonance, Stroke, and Release Sounds. Learn how to force open strings or other specified strings to be used first, adjust the tuning with the Virtual Capo, add FX noises, and repeat notes with the Poly Repeater function.
• Strummer Overview (02:55) - Strummer is a tool for playing and editing harmonic and rhythmic strumming or picking patterns based on the chords you want to use. Take a first look at the functions offered in this window.
• Strummer: Select Mode (07:15) - Follow along as a simple strumming pattern is set up to follow a custom chord progression. The chord voicings and strumming pattern are then customized.
• Strummer: Detect Mode (06:08) - See Detect Mode capture chords and inversions played in the lower two octaves of the keyboard. The "Copy From Another Sequence" function is then used to create related variations of a picking/strumming pattern that are then used with the detected chords.
• Strummer: Advanced Functions (04:30) - Discover ways to incorporate articulation switches with chord switch notes and strumming patterns.
• Riffer Overview (04:40) - Learn how this tool, used to generate new ideas, works, and where all the important functions are located.
• Riffer in Action (09:29) - See how Riffer is used to develop an idea. Legato slides, transpositions, strummed chords, FX hits, and note bends are added to modify the pattern.
• Dice (06:45) - See how the Dice feature is used to generate random Riffer patterns based on selective user input.
• Guitar Tab (04:17) - Discover how AGSJ imports and works with third party guitar tablature files.
• Sample Editor & Settings (06:12) - Learn how to alter the sound of Ample Guitar SJ by adjusting the tuning and gain of individual samples, and by customizing other system wide settings that effect the global performance of the instrument.
• Putting Super Jumbo to Work (08:23) - Hear Super Jumbo in action as an arpeggiated guitar part is constructed for the verse section of a pop style song. A combination of Riffer, Dice, and manual editing is used to get each chord to sound as needed.
• FX (05:52) - Explore Ample Guitar's built in FX, including Compression, EQ, Delay, and Reverb.