#IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE 4 MANUAL#
#IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE 4 SOFTWARE#
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There’s extensive MIDI and automation support too. AmpliTube 5 also features a DAW-like eight-track recorder and mixer, a fully-featured looper and Live Mode, which integrates with IK Multimedia’s iRig Stomp I/O pedalboard and AXE I/O interface hardware.

#IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE 4 SERIES#

The recently released 5.4 version now includes IK Multimedia’s X-GEAR series of contemporary-voiced pedals too.

#IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE 4 MANUAL#

To give you some idea, there’s a manual dedicated to just amps and effects.

#IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE 4 SOFTWARE#

You’re not going to find a more accurate software modelling package.Īnd the effects? Not only are the effects excellent but the breadth of what’s available is simply crazy.

For the non-geeks among us it’s sufficient to recognize that AmpliTube’s models are endorsed by the likes of Fender, Orange, Mesa Boogie, Brian May and Slash. With version five, IK Multimedia has moved to what it calls Dynamic Interaction Modelling, which not only works on a component level but also accounts for the influence the interaction of the entire system has on each individual component in a non-linear way. Just how accurate is the modelling? Well, if we accept that no two vintage Fender, Marshall or even contemporary Mesa Boogie amps will ever sound exactly alike then we also must accept that modelling is an imprecise art. IK Multimedia reckons it recorded 143,000 IRs for AmpliTube 5’s 100 cabinets and if that’s not enough you can even upload your own. You can precisely place a mic in 3D space, and it will faithfully pick up the interactions between neighboring speakers, the cabinet and the floor. New to version 5 is IK Multimedia’s astonishing Volumetric Impulse Response (VIR) tech that uses 600 IRs per speaker. Not only can you mix and match guitar cabs with amp heads, AmpliTube lets you experiment with different speaker types, mics and even precise mic placement. It’s then possible to drill down further into type (compressor, EQ etc or dirty, crunch, clean and so on), collection (genre, artist or brand) or speaker, mic and room qualities.Ĭab and speaker implementation is ridiculously powerful. Not sure what to add? Fortunately, AmpliTube’s vast library can quickly be sorted by effect, amp, cab and rack. What saves AmpliTube from immediately degenerating into a bewildering confusion of audio befuddlement is the visual clarity of the virtual signal and the software’s powerful search functionality.Įvery path is clearly color-coded so that it’s easy to trace, and each piece of kit is generously arranged along it for immediate identification and control. Of course, where AmpliTube differs from real life is that you have an almost limitless amount of kit at your disposal.

And, regardless of path type, you can always run additional DI routings for effects. You can arrange that kit in complex paths that can be split two or three ways or run in parallel for powerful stereo effects. So, if you already know your way around classic amp controls and can figure out the order in which you want your effects then you’re halfway there. If you want to tweak a particular parameter just select the relevant piece of gear and its control panel will appear in the main window. It’s as easy as dragging an amp, cabinet or effect onto the path. Essentially, you daisy-chain amps and effects together just as you would in real life but using virtual cables. For example, the control panel on AmpliTube’s version of the Orange Dual Terror is authentically like the physical amp, and the same goes for the T.Rex Mudhoney and every other bit of gear for that matter. The graphic representations of both the path and the kit are hyper-realistic skeuomorphic images, which means they look just like the real thing, albeit in 2D. Essentially, on launch you are presented with a virtual signal path that you can use to chain together amps and effects. Whether you run AmpliTube as a standalone application on Windows/MacOS or access it within your DAW as a plugin (AU, VST 2, VST 3, AAX) the user experience is very similar.

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