Create Authentic Steel-string Acoustic Guitar Accompaniments With Ease!
“Virtual Guitarist AMBER” is a unique virtual guitar instrument that is suitable for all levels of music production experience.
Seasoned musicians and composers will be impressed with Amber’s time-saving features and uncompromising sound quality whilst beginners will appreciate the frustration-free design, speeding up workflow and enhancing the creative process.
What’s Inside?
- Steel-string acoustic guitar strumming
- More than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases
- Select or mix between microphone and pick-up signal
- From full-bodied warm to metallic-sparkling bright
From complete beginners who are just starting out to top professional composers working to tight deadlines, AMBER is ideal for anyone who wants great sounding acoustic guitar tracks with minimal fuss.
Features At A Glance
Ujam’s emulations of hand-picked vintage amps and speaker cabinets ensure classy tone and vibrant character whilst the in-built effect and tonal control make it simple to dial in your perfect sound and craft your next hit!
Virtual Guitarist AMBER is optimized for one clear, powerful purpose: To produce great-sounding guitar tracks without distracting you from the complex endeavor that producing a song is.
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What Is Virtual Guitarist AMBER?
“Virtual Guitarist AMBER” is a software instrument doubling as a professional guitarist in a music studio, with you being in the producer’s chair.
Virtual Guitarist vs A Real Guitarist
If we denied the huge differences between a software plugin and a real guitarist, you wouldn’t trust us. If you have all the money, time and patience in the world plus a recording studio and a professional guitarist available, we would always recommend: Go for it!
But for most people, most of the time, that’s not the case:
- Maybe you have no access to a (professional) guitarist.
- Maybe you want to just work out ideas totally by yourself.
- Maybe you’re a guitarist but want to quickly lay down a track without the hassle of setting up.
- Maybe you want to use MIDI-controlled guitar tracks as source material for electronic manipulation.
In these and many other scenarios, “Virtual Guitarist AMBER” is a great alternative to the real thing.
What is “AMBER” about?
Virtual Guitarist AMBER focuses on strummed chords on a premium acoustic steel string guitar, a rhythmic staple in any kind of modern music. It offers you a wide range of playing styles (Phrases combined into Styles) and sound characters from full-bodied and warm to brilliant and shiny.
There’s a wide range of functions of an acoustic steel string guitar in a song. Two extreme examples:
- In folk or songwriter music, the guitar is often the foundation of the arrangement – with everything built around it. In this case, you’d prefer a warm, full sound and a straight playing style.
- In pop music, acoustic steel string is often used as a form of “harmonic percussion” or as a HiHat or Tambourine supplement”. This adds instant live-feel to arrangements. Here, the metallic strumming itself is as or even more important than the harmonic portion of the sound.
Virtual Guitarist AMBER lets you do all this and much more in no time, with minimal effort.
It combines the virtues of a professional guitar, a custom premium quality acoustic guitar, perfectly tuned, with fresh steel strings, recorded with a professional microphone and a pickup at the same time, plus the most important sound shaping tools as used in recording studios, to design the guitar sound exactly as you need it in various contexts.
Why so few controls?
Ujam are all musicians and they know that the time for learning a user interface is better spent making music. Therefore, the user interface of Virtual Guitarist AMBER is designed for maximum ease of use and minimum distraction.
It is also fail-proof in that no matter how you set up the controls of Virtual Guitarist AMBER, the result will never be musically or technically wrong – without sacrificing any creative freedom. You can trust in the fact that tracks produced with Virtual Guitarist AMBER are realistic, professionally produced guitar tracks.
Start Playing!
The top half of the Virtual Guitarist AMBER window is dedicated to the guitarist’s performance – in other words: what is played. Here, you’ll find two musical core aspects you can control: Phrasing and Notes.
The Interactive Keyboard is split between a Phrase Range (left) and a Chord Range (right). The basic principle is simple:
- When you press keys from C4* upwards, Virtual Guitarist AMBER will start playing a phrase with the chord determined by the notes you play. When you release the key(s), playback will stop.
- MIDI notes below C4 don’t represent musical keys but switches varying the phrasing of your player in real-time. This is a powerful way of making your performance interesting and dynamic.
- By turning up the Modulation Wheel, you can morph from normal to shorter to dead notes – another powerful way of varying phrases.
If you know these things and can switch presets, you know all you need to start producing with Virtual Guitarist AMBER.
*C4 is one octave above middle C. The MIDI note number is 72. Some DAWs refer to it as C5.
MIDI Learn
Using MIDI Learn, you can assign Virtual Guitarist AMBER controls to controls on your hardware keyboard that send MIDI controller data. To assign a control, you usually right-click or ctrl-click a control in Virtual Guitarist AMBER to open the MIDI Learn context menu of your DAW.
Native Instruments KONTROL integration
Virtual Guitarist AMBER is fully NKS-compatible for superior integration with Native Instruments KONTROL technology. This means that when using MASCHINE or any of the KONTROL-S keyboards, Virtual Guitarist AMBER will offer added functionality:
- Native Map: You can edit Virtual Guitarist AMBER’s parameters using the controller knobs.
- Light Guide: On KONTROL-S keyboards, LEDs with color codes guide you to the Common and Style ranges as well as the Chord range.
- You can browse Virtual Guitarist AMBER presets in the Native Browser, including categories.
For more in-depth information read the User Manual HERE.
Define Your Unique Sound With The Effects Section & Performance Controls!
Find Your Guitar Sound
Let’s look at the bottom half of the Virtual Guitarist AMBER window. Here you set up your guitar, its sound, character and effects.
- Set your player to LATCH and keep playing while you tweak controls
- First, play with the TONE rotary switch. Notice how it changes the character of the guitar sound and compare your impression with the knob labels
Interactive Keyboard
The interactive keyboard is both a display of received MIDI notes and an actually functional on-screen keyboard. The left side of the keyboard doesn’t make any sound by itself. Here, you control the performance of the guitarist by switching between 34 different phrases. 11 of these phrases are set by the style, the rest are always available.
Common Phrases
The lower left of the MIDI keyboard (C#1 – B2) is reserved for a collection of so-called “Common Phrases”. These phrases are “hard-wired” and won’t change with the STYLE selection. Common Phrases complement the Style Phrases by phrasings that are more generic and applicable to multiple contexts.
Style Phrases
Keys in this area select phrases of the currently selected Style. Phrases in the Style Range start with the lowest density/intensity on C3 and get more agitated as you move towards Bb3.
Chord Range
Keys in the Chord range function almost like a regular musical keyboard: You start and stop the guitarist’s performance and you determine the chords played. It’s like playing keyboard, except that instead of playing notes you select the chord the guitarist will perform as a phrase.
Performance Controls
Performance controls let you adjust the musical performance of Virtual Guitarist AMBER to your song’s feel and tempo.
- Latch – When Latch is activated, once you press a key in the Chord range, Virtual Guitarist AMBER will keep playing until you press the Stop key. When Latch is off, Virtual Guitarist AMBER only plays as long as you hold at least one key in the Chord range.
- Speed – The Speed switch lets you halve (0.5x) or double (2x) Virtual Guitarist AMBER’s tempo relative to the song tempo.
- Swing – This function, often also called “Shuffle”, delays the off-beats. Virtual Guitarist AMBER will automatically switch the Swing resolution to 8th or 16th note depending on the selected Style.
FEEL – You can tweak the feel of your guitarist’s performance either towards relaxed or rushed using this control:
- As you move the slider to the left, the player will play off-beats slightly earlier, leading to a rushed or driving feel
- In the opposite direction, off-beats will be slightly delayed, creating a laidback or relaxed feel
GUITAR Section
This area is where you tweak the sound of your guitar. Virtual Guitarist AMBER offers a large range of sounds from warm, soft and round to brilliant and sparkling.
- Position – The POSITION knob emulates moving the strumming hand between neck and bridge. The center position represents the recording position – the hand strumming over the soundhole – and is therefore neutral.
- Tone – This 5-way switch lets you change the tone of the guitar sound basically from “a lot of low end” to “a lot of high end”.
- Source – The source material of Virtual Guitarist AMBER has been recorded with both a microphone and a pickup mounted on the guitar. The SOURCE selector lets you choose between four different selections of those two signals: Mic, Pickup, Mix and Split L/R
- Shimmer – The SHIMMER knob adds silvery high-end to the signal, making the guitar shimmer or sparkle even more.
Guitar Modes
The three knobs underneath the POSITION control allow you to add typical Fret Noise, to re-tune or to duplicate the guitar
Playing With The Built-In Effects
Ujam strongly encourage you to use your go-to audio processing tools when perfecting your guitar tracks. However, in order to save you time and create a more interesting range of instantly accessible presets, Ujam have included the three most important effects right on board: delay, chorus and reverb.
For more in-depth information read the User Manual HERE.
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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Virtual Guitarist AMBER”?
“Virtual Guitarist AMBER” is a true team player that doesn’t hog the limelight, it is perfect for Pop, Rock, Funk, Folk Country, Reggae and Ska – no guitar skills necessary!
What’s inside?
- Steel-string acoustic guitar strumming
- More than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases
- Select or mix between microphone and pick-up signal
- From full-bodied warm to metallic-sparkling bright
- Native Instruments NKS ready for intuitive control
Still not convinced? Try the 30 day trial version HERE (email required).
Important Note: This plugin is NOT compatible with macOS 10.16 (Big Sur)
Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit the Ujam website in order to redeem and download your product, we do not host the plugin download at VSTBuzz.
Normally €129 – get it at 70% off before it’s gone!
- 70% off the normal price (normally €129)!
- “Virtual Guitarist AMBER” – Create Authentic Steel-string Acoustic Guitar Accompaniments With Ease!
- An intuitive User Interface
- More than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases
- Select or mix between microphone and pick-up signal
- From full-bodied warm to metallic-sparkling bright
- Effects section – Delay, Chorus and Reverb
- MIDI Learn – assign Virtual Guitarist AMBER controls to controls on your hardware keyboard that send MIDI controller data
- Includes Native Instruments NKS standard
- Windows 7 or later
- macOS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later
- Important Note: Virtual Guitar: AMBER is NOT compatible with macOS 10.16 (Big Sur)
- Plugin Formats – VST, AU, and AAX (On Reason? A-List Acoustic Guitarist is AMBER’s Sister in Rack Extension)
- 4GB of RAM, 2.4GB of Disk Space
- 1280x768px Display, Internet Connection
- Authorization – E-mail and Password Within the Plugin
- Still not convinced? Try the 30 day trial version HERE (email required).
- Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit the Ujam website in order to redeem and download your product, we do not host the plugin download at VSTBuzz.
- Perfect for Pop, Rock, Funk, Folk Country, Reggae and Ska – no guitar skills necessary!
What People Think About 70% off “Virtual Guitarist AMBER” by Ujam
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"Amber does make it ridiculously easy to get a classy-sounding acoustic guitar coming out of your monitors. For media composers or solo music producers looking for a speedy way to a fully polished strummed guitar part or three... Amber [is] capable of delivering the goods."
Sound On Sound
Music Industry Blog
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"Amber raises the bar considerably, it is hands down one of the most convincing acoustic guitar emulations I've ever used. If I need to get a great sounding acoustic guitar onto a track then I'm increasingly reaching for Amber, it is quite simply remarkable."
Pro Tools Expert
Music Industry Blog
Gerald – :
Makes it very easy to get a good authentic sound with lots of useful patterns. Great for one finger players!
Thomas – :
Very straightforward plugin with shiny, clear sounds. Most importantly the sounds in this plugin stand out very well among other instruments. I highly recommend.
Jeff – :
I love how easy these virtual guitars from UJAM are to use! This is the third one from the series I’ve bought. Very beautiful, very realistic, very intuitive. No learning curve.
Torsten – :
I always use software from Ujam. This is an other excellent tool, easy to use and frustrating free. Good sound, perfect for soulful songs. I love it. I can this highly recommend it.
Martin – :
I originally tried to contact NI with a view to buying ‘session acoustic strum guitar’, BUT NI couldn’t be bothered to answer my very simple question of whether their product would be compatible with Kontakt 5. I then saw this ‘Virtual Guitarist Amber’ (which was very forthcoming with it compatibilities) a bought it after first trying it out (for about 10 minutes). The realistic acoustic sounds are very good and the ease of use is also pretty easy. The only reason I gave it a 9 was rather than a 10 was because for some unknown reason it had a ‘bug’ whereby it suddenly played all the guitars with a muted sound. This disappeared after I rebooted my DAW. I would recommend this product.
Kenneth – :
Great sounds! I love that I am able to put such realistic guitar sounds in my music productions. There is a great variety to choose from and all can be utilized. I did not find one i would shy away from. The interface is easy and straight forward. Excellent job by Ujam! Well worth the investment.
vicente – :
I bought Virtual Guitarist Amber from UJAM a few days ago. Certainly I have not had time to investigate it thoroughly. But my first impression is very good. Performance and quality are similar to Native Instruments or Heavy Ocity guitars, but with their own peculiarities. I will not go into which one is more or less accomplished. But this product at this price is a real gift.
Peter – :
Amber sounds great and is a good complement to UJAMs Iron. I really like the simple and intuitive user interface and am looking forward to use both in a full song.
David – :
Amber is a great sounding plugin and easy way to incorporate acoustic guitar sounds into my songs. I often record late at night, and using my acoustic guitar with a mic isn’t practical. Amber allows me to easily rough out an arrangement, change strumming patterns and guitar tone on the fly while staying in the creative zone. Happy I picked it up. UJam’s fully functional demos are the best – was able to make sure the plugin operated on my Mac without issues, and that it delivered on what I was looking for. The demo sealed the deal!
Kevin – :
My third Virtual Guitarist vst from UJAM of course I recommend the line. At 70% off it’s a great price.
Michael – :
As a guitarist I’m always skeptical of guitar libraries/VST’s but I’ve grown to find them useful in the right circumstances. Amber has a nice variety of tones & phrases that can help you jump start a track quickly & almost effortlessly. The tone can be shaped dramatically to delve into other worldly textures as well. If you’re not a guitarist it’s a great tool to add to your box when you find yourself needing the sound & vibe that only an acoustic guitar can deliver. Great buy!
Scott – :
Grab this before it goes! You wont be disappointed. I’m rapidly becoming a huge fan of the Ujam material.
Akanksha – :
Lovely product! I’ve been thinking of buying this for a long time as I’m not a guitar player and was in need of having one for some of my arrangements.
Steve – :
Very solid plugin. Probably not worth the full retail price, but well worth it on sale. As a non-guitar player, it does a superb job of quietly filling out my tracks in a supporting roll. Sure, fully exposed you can likely tell it’s not real, but in context and used appropriately, it sounds completely realistic. I have other guitar plugins that do excellent picking, but not strumming. If you have a need for instant gratification acoustic strumming in a support role context, this plugin is top notch.
Lloyd – :
This product sounds way better in person than in any of the video reviews that I watched. It is excellent, and it’s so easy to play and to come up with fantastic parts by just experimenting with fingerings. Even just randomly playing groups of keys produces some sweet chord variations and is very inspiring for coming up with new and unexpected progressions.
It would be a mistake to hesitate on this deal. Even if you are a guitar player, this is going to help you come up with great ideas. The only shortcoming which I hope UJAM will address in the next version is that it would be nice if chords were displayed in fretboard diagrams (just as they are in AAS Strum GS-2) so that you can immediately play whatever chords Amber is playing on your own guitar with the identical fingerings. I took away one star for that reason… otherwise the product is brilliant.
Graham – :
Excellent VST. Easy to register and install. Sounds great. Good fun to use. I’m a big fan of UJAM products.
Dave – :
Very enjoyable and easy to use guitar simulator plug-in. Great for keyboard players who don’t play guitar.
david – :
I love the tones and the ease of use. The various strums are really cool and so easy to switch around.
Thomas – :
Great sounding guitars ! Easy to use surface, with very good functionality. Well produced styles and rhythm phrases.
Don – :
Very Cool Plugin….easy to work with, and I love the sound!!
Sounds real!!!
Check it out for yourself!