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sockofgold · Post by **sockofgold** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:05 pm

zerocrossing wrote:
sockofgold wrote: Maybe NI and IK should team up. If they used Guitar Rig's flexibility and MIDI support with Amplitube's wonderful sounds, we might have something to work with. Yep. I'm just going to hold out for that.
NI and IK team up? You're kidding right? I doubt highly that it would happen as they're direct competitors. More likely IK will hear the complaints about MIDI implementation and add some more functionality and flexibility. However, the popularity of Amplitube may make NI take a look at their product and rewrite the engine to improve the sound. Not everyone agrees with me on that point but perhaps enough do to make them take notice and change.

Mark

Yeah, it's a joke. Natch.

ew · Post by ew » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:17 pm

Sickle wrote:
ew wrote:I'm wondering if the problem with XGear isn't the assigning of IDs 1-16 for what you want to control through host automation...
Cornelius told me it had something to do with A2's initialization routines or how it receives control messages; something like that. Something annoying it will likely be a bitch to see fixed. I know they've been in touch over it, though, so one can hope to see a fix at some point.

That or its just post-war bad blood still.

It's control messages with the original AT; I had the same conversation with him. However, since XGear does receive control messages (or at least cc#s), I'm wondering if my thought for XGear's right. If XGear freaks out over any control remapping, it could be the cause- Kore uses the first couple IDs for morphing, and the others in that range are unassigned.

ew

redshift factor · Post by **redshift factor** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:00 am

Alright then.
So what about AT Metal?
Any status update on that?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:30 am

I'm very happy with the release of this program.

My only complaint is that the volume/gains or not on par with the at2/JHE presets. But I'm very happy to be able to have..........oh..........delay from at2 (pick one!) and use it on my amazing JHE patches!

A3ntar · Post by **A3ntar** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:33 pm

hibidy wrote:I'm very happy with the release of this program.

My only complaint is that the volume/gains or not on par with the at2/JHE presets. But I'm very happy to be able to have..........oh..........delay from at2 (pick one!) and use it on my amazing JHE patches!

Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking on this one.

Also the less than stellar MIDI flexibility.

It does sound awesome though!

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:42 am

The sound of AT, ATJH and SVX is excellent ...

Its a shame that X-GEAR's automation with a limitation of only 16 parameters per presets ... 127 parameters would have been much better.

Also X-GEAR's MIDI implementation is ... well, rather amateurish ... no global/preset per MIDI CC, no min/max range for pedals, no toggle/push option for switches ...

I hope one day the IK programmers would take the effort, download GuitarRig3 and look how a MIDI implementation *should* be done

A3ntar · Post by **A3ntar** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:31 am

asseca wrote:The sound of AT, ATJH and SVX is excellent ...

Indeed. I have been playing with X-Gear for the last week, and I must say that aside from the MIDI issues (we want MORE MIDI control..IKMM, are you listening?), it is a fantastic piece of ampsim.

I can honestly say that X-Gear (including ATME) and

Revalver MKIII

(pending release) will be all I need as ampsims for a loooooong while.

redshift factor · Post by **redshift factor** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:26 am

The X-GEAR demo is available for download to the general public now.
http://www.amplitube.com/Main.html?Download-ATXG.php

redshift factor · Post by **redshift factor** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:09 am

All of the statements from IKMM regarding ATME have indicated it will be released this month. That means today is the day, if it holds true!

A3ntar · Post by **A3ntar** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:43 am

redshift factor wrote:All of the statements from IKMM regarding ATME have indicated it will be released this month. That means today is the day, if it holds true!

Nah, I say mid to late April

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:01 am

ATME...what's it gonna have that we don't already have in AT2 and JHE

never imagined so many great sounds under one roof, unless of course you're squids

redshift factor · Post by **redshift factor** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:34 am

politcat wrote:ATME...what's it gonna have that we don't already have in AT2 and JHE

The Marshall JMP, Boss and MXR flangers, and Phase 90 will be worth the price of admission alone. If there is one Marshall amp you want modeled, this is the one. Plus three other ultra high-gain amps, a RAT and Big Muff Pi, and a ton of Boss distortion pedals. Some people claim that AmpliTube isn't good for high-gain. If this is true, it won't be much longer. Some other nice stuff too, like a 10-band EQ stompbox, and a 31-band rack EQ.

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:49 pm

big muff pi

jmp & mxr

never liked boss pedals, don't like the rat either...oh well, i'll try them again, virtually that is

thx

redshift factor · Post by **redshift factor** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:32 am

politcat wrote:never liked boss pedals, don't like the rat either...oh well, i'll try them again, virtually that is

I was raised on Boss pedals. My only wish is IKMM modeled more of them. Things like the Chorus, Chorus Ensemble, Phaser, and Tremolo. However I was never much of a fan of their distortion pedals, though the SD-1 is a classic (and modeled in Metal.) I was always of the opinion that the RAT was the ultimate distortion box. The Boss Feedbacker model should be some fun, though.

I've since come to appreciate MXR as much or more, the flanger and phasers in particular. One thing is for sure, the MXR M-117 or Boss BF-2 flangers both are infinitely better than the lame generic flanger that comes in AmpliTube 2 (both the stompbox and rack unit.) As far as I'm concerned, the AmpliTube line hasn't included a real flanger at all up until now. A good flanger should make intense metallic dive bombs like a siren, not the weak glassy comb filtering that the flanger in AmpliTube 2 offers. And also as far as I'm concerned, no guitarist's rig is complete without a good flanger. So in my opinion that will not really be possible until Metal is out. With a Marshall JMP, Triple Rectifier, the phase 90 and flangers, RAT and Big Muff Pi, I'd say that Metal is going to be the "must have" if you could only have one ampsim. It may have less models, but they're the ones you want, even if you don't play metal (I don't).

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:00 am

thank goodness for tastes or this would be a boring world

AmpliTube Metal - Released THIS month!!!