
Orchestral
Ample Guitar M Lite II
by Ample Sound
I reach for Ample Guitar M Lite II whenever I need to sketch an acoustic guitar part with MIDI. It’s the free version of Ample Sound’s Martin D-41 sampled acoustic, and nothing else in the freeware…
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by Unknown
Emergence Audio Infinite Collection bundles 10 instruments drawn from Emergence’s paid Infinite Motion series. 0 Lite engine (a cut-down version of the engine used in Emergence’s paid instruments). The key thing is the “non-static sampling” concept, where samples continuously evolve rather than loop statically. It doesn’t sound like any other free Kontakt library I’ve tried. 67 GB, which is a bit large. But if you like evolving textures, this is the one to download first.
Three guitars and a bass. All four are legitimately good free libraries, which is rare in this category.
Links to emergenceaudio.com — the article includes the official download links.

Orchestral
by Ample Sound
I reach for Ample Guitar M Lite II whenever I need to sketch an acoustic guitar part with MIDI. It’s the free version of Ample Sound’s Martin D-41 sampled acoustic, and nothing else in the freeware…

Orchestral
Echo Sound Works released Vinyl Guitar 2 as a full overhaul of their original Vinyl Guitar. The first version is now deprecated on the ESW website, so v2 is the one to grab.

Orchestral
I love layering odd-sounding instruments in my music, and Somerville Sounds’ Rubber Bridge Plucks is one of my secret weapons for roughing up a guitar mix. It’s a parlor acoustic modified with a…

Orchestral
Multi-samples of a Yamaha Eterna classical guitar, recorded through a CAD E100 microphone, is what you get with PlastikGuitar by Audiolatry. The tone is deliberately a bit cheap and not perfectly in…

Orchestral
Every other plugin on this list is sample-based. Spicy Guitar is the exception — it’s physically modeled.

Orchestral
Most guitar libraries treat harmonics as an afterthought articulation buried in a key switch. Guitar Harmonics Essential, a free library for Steinberg’s HALion Sonic 7, builds an entire instrument…