MG UKULELES
Ukulele VST Sample Library
Play a triad and MG Ukuleles gives you a properly voiced ukulele chord, strummed or picked the way a real player would. Or build a pattern in the step sequencer and drag the MIDI straight into your DAW. Two ukuleles, a bright soprano and a warm baritone, in one expressive Kontakt Player instrument.
MG Ukuleles is a continuation of my Spitfire Audio guitar releases and their philosophy: to combine in-depth sampling with intuitive playing systems tailored for each specific instrument.
£55
Launch sale ends Cyber Monday 30.11.26
- Works with the free Kontakt Player
- NKS compatible
- All major DAWs supported
Listen to MG Ukuleles
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Realistic Ukulele Parts in Seconds
The details that make a ukulele sound played, like the chord voicing, the strum direction and the little squeak of a chord change, can be a challenge for non-guitarists. Get them wrong and the part sounds programmed. Spend hours fixing them and the track loses its momentum.
I built MG Ukuleles around those details, so the realism happens by default and you can stay focused on the song.
Create in 3 Simple Steps:
- Choose your ukulele. Switch between the bright, classic soprano and the warm, deeper baritone right in the instrument’s interface.
- Play, or draw. Hold a triad and Auto mode finds the right major, minor, seventh or suspended voicing, with no theory needed. Strum it, pick it or arpeggiate it live, or draw a pattern in the step sequencer, starting from the included presets.
- Drag it into your DAW. Record your playing in the sequencer, chord changes included, and drop the MIDI straight into your project!
Perform Section: Real Time Playability
- Just play. Melodies flow naturally across the full range, with slurs, slides, legato, vibrato, palm mutes and bends within easy reach. Up to seven round robins and four dynamic layers per note keep repeated notes from sounding mechanical, and intelligent string selection follows the logic of a real ukulele, so the realism happens by default.
- Slurs and noises that happen on their own. Overlap notes and hammer-ons and pull-offs trigger automatically, shaped by your velocity. Add string squeaks, shifts and slides with dedicated keyswitches, and let fret noise fire whenever you release the sustain pedal.
- Chords without the theory. Play a triad and Auto mode works out the right major, minor, seventh or suspended voicing. Prefer your own? Switch to Manual. Strum, pick single strings, play arpeggios or hits, and use the strum speed and humanisation settings to keep every performance sounding played rather than programmed.
- Smooth, solo-ready playing. Open-string switches let strings ring through chord changes, and you choose how those changes behave: squeaks, hard stops or sustain. Combine strums, arpeggios and melody for convincing solo parts.
Sequencer: Instant Chords & Arpeggios
Build detailed patterns and rhythmic foundations using a sequencing engine that’s both powerful and approachable:
- Start from a ready-made rhythm. Choose from the included ukulele presets, or build from scratch with your own voicings and progressions. Save your patterns and reload them any time.
- Edit every step. Four banks of up to 32 steps. Switch individual strings on or off, set the articulation and strum direction (picked, forward or back) per step, and set each step’s volume relative to your playing.
- Make it groove. Set the number of bars, time signature and step rate. Add strum speed, randomness, step humanisation and swing for a looser, human feel, and choose how chords and sequences release.
- Straight into your project. Record your playing in the sequencer, chord changes included, and drag the MIDI into your DAW.
Calibrate Page: Shaping the Feel
- Set the volume, stereo width and close and far mic mix.
- Choose how much fret noise you hear, and whether it’s tied to pedal release.
- Shape the dynamics with compression, and mould the attack of each note.
- Double Tracking, with controls for the width and tightness of the performance.
FX Page: Instant Atmosphere
Three effects built right in, so you never need to leave the instrument to finish a sound: convolution reverb, algorithmic reverb, and delay, each easy to switch on, bypass, or fine-tune on the spot.
There are also three amplifiers to choose from, should you want a little lofi, bite or distortion added. These amps were built with the baritone ukulele in mind, which offers an alternative DI signal, though they still sound great on the baritone and soprano mic samples!
The Details
- 3.5GB on disk.
- Recorded with 2 x Beyerdynamic MC930 condenser microphones through a Neve preamp / audio interface.
- Over 10,000 samples included, with up to 7x round robins and 4 velocity layers per articulation.
- Featuring 2 distinct ukulele models: the soprano and the baritone (includes a DI option).
- Offering all standard articulations including normal, mutes, slides (pre and post note), slurs, vibrato, bends, hits, squeaks and shifts.
- Multiple playing methods, traditional MIDI note input, auto-voiced chords and arpeggios with strumming and single-string keys, and a highly customisable step sequencer with MIDI export function.
- All-new Double Tracking feature, with controls for width and tightness of performance.
- FX section with Convolution Reverb, Algorithmic Reverb and Delay modules, plus an Amp section with 3 distinct amp models for a greater choice of sounds.
- Includes a library of useful preset patterns for the sequencer.
macOS requirements:
OS 13 +
Minimum Intel Quad Core i5
4GB RAM or Higher
64-bit DAWs only (32-bit not supported)
PC requirements:
Windows 10 and Windows 11
Minimum Quad Core CPU
4GB RAM or Higher
64-bit DAWs only (32-bit not supported)
Kontakt Player version:
Compatible with Kontakt Player 8.12+