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![]() Finally, Kontakt developer Sonic Zest has quite a few of ambient libraries in their portfolio. I believe it's still available on Kontakt Hub. There is also "Atmosphere" library from the already mentioned Wavelet Audio that also seem to have some ambient guitar sounds included. You can also check out Ambient Guitars library from Spitfire Audio which is more extensive than Enigma content-wise, but IMO also farther away from the traditional ambient electric guitar concept. But it blends perfectly with the mentioned and my other libraries. IMO, Sphere has the edge in ambient pad sounds though this is not a library derived only from ambient electric guitar but also from piano, acoustic guitar, cello and zither. While Enigma is my go-to library for those, Sphere and Atom Hub's ambient guitar libraries also feature such sounds. In each of these, there are quite a few clean ambient guitar patches suitable for solos and arpeggios. My personal favorite ambient guitar libraries which I have in my collection are Enigma from Spitfire Audio, Sphere from Exotic States and finally The Planet and Lost Horizon libraries from Atom Hub. But now they have made their cinematic guitars part of something called the "Ambient Cinematic String Theory Collection" But you can still buy the first 3 for $16 and the 4th for $16. They built their whole reputation on that library and brought out three in the series. Sonic Zest used to sell a VI called "Ambient Cinematic Guitar" for $6. These were made for Omnisphere, but the Guru also sells the Megamagic Guitars, Pads and Cello for Kontakt too. These libraries are samples of various instruments with reverb baked-in. Pluginguru's Megamagic series is all about ambient instruments. But Omnisphere is one of the best purchases you can make, along with Kontakt. One of my most favorite presets is "glorious guitars" which combines an acoustic guitar with a bowed electric. Omnisphere does do ambient guitar very well. Or better yet, use a crazy reverb like Eventide's Blackhole. Put on something like Pro-R and set it to ambient or cathedral. Personally, I think any decent guitar library can give the sound of an "ambient guitar" if you add a whole lot of dreamy reverb to it.
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