NI Guitar Rig Pro 6.3.0 out, with new Fuzz ICM modeled module

[mabian]

Not groundbreaking for sure , but at last something is moving...


6.3.0 - 2022-02-14

ADDED New ICM component: Red Fuzz, a distortion component that has 3 fuzz modes modelled from classic analog gear

ADDED AAX Apple Silicon support

ADDED 8 new rack presets

IMPROVED Parameter changes are now undoable and redoable

IMPROVED Rack now automatically scrolls to inserted component if out of view

IMPROVED Rack now automatically scrolls to enabled fixed component if out of view

IMPROVED Container and Macro assignment sliders can now be controlled by the mouse wheel

IMPROVED Container and Macro assignment sliders now have numeric value displays

IMPROVED Files can be on loaded onto the Tapedecks by dragging and dropping

IMPROVED LFO waveforms can now be selected directly via a menu in the LFO modifier component

IMPROVED Display CPU architecture in about box

IMPROVED Default modulation range was 75% but is now 100%

FIXED Twin Delay did not sound correct when using maximum predelay/delay times

FIXED Delay time parameter display value was wrong in Sync Mode on some components

FIXED Undoing removal of Reflektor inside a Container had no IR loaded

FIXED Undoing removal of Little Reflektor component could crash

FIXED Undoing component preset load did not restore preset name

FIXED Undoing Macro assignment would not update Macro UI and could cause crash if interacted with

FIXED The rack preset menu now correctly loads the next/previous preset after performing an undo

FIXED The component preset menu now correctly loads the next/previous preset after performing an undo

FIXED Preset Volume and Metronome parameters now revert when undoing rack preset load

FIXED Some Dirt parameters were not modulatable

FIXED RC24/RC48 input and output level parameters were not modulatable

FIXED LFO waveform, amplitude offset and phase offset parameters were not modulatable

FIXED Tapedeck volume parameters were not modulatable or controllable with macros

FIXED PresetVolume dry/wet and volume parameters were not modulatable or controllable with macros

FIXED Using the “Clear Rack” button in the rack Toolbar would not update the Macro assignments

FIXED When a Macro knob was assigned to a button, assignment ranges were not taken into account

FIXED Bite no longer silences right channel in stereo mode when left channel is silent

FIXED Guitar Rig now runs again on x64 processors that only support SSE3 and below

KNOWN ISSUE Dragging files from the OS into Guitar Rig causes slowdown

[martinjuenke]

The story about their death was slightly overstated.

[SLiC]

Almost nothing for 3 years, then 1 fuzz pedal...too little too late in my opinion - TONEX and A5 are light years ahead now, especially with the hardware TONEX Pedal so you can take your tone to stage (as you can with HELIX which as has had several very significant updates since GR6 was launched with all new IR cabs and loads of new gear)

[Luka_Kostii]

Almost nothing for 3 years, then 1 fuzz pedal...too little too late in my opinion

Indeed it is. I'm glad I didn't invest back in 2020. They promised regular ICM module roll-outs, but instead it took them 3 years to fix the slugfest and bugfest they released in the first place. I wonder if they've finally fixed all that mess by now and can focus on putting out new ICM stuff in 2023. I shall watch the development this year.

[pixel85]

But they added new 8 presets for this fuzz. You know that it's going well when developer has to name all those presets on their website to show how much this new update is great

On a serious note, I bought update to V6 thinking that it may serves me as a multi-effect with the new modulation options but somehow it didn't worked for me. Bugs, latency between dry and wet signal in some modules, crashes and instability killed it for me. Sadly because I like this new interface.

[SLiC]

Yes, unfortunately all GR6 turned our to be was a new interface. Skin deep.

[Songwriter101]

I'll use GR5 again in the future. Snappier Interface.

But other than that Scuffham and Softube make the best amp sims imho. I'm using Lehle's sunday driver ii which puts the impedence up to 5mOhm. Makes a huuuuge difference on every amp sim.

[metalifuxx]

I'll use GR5 again in the future. Snappier Interface.

But other than that Scuffham and Softube make the best amp sims imho. I'm using Lehle's sunday driver ii which puts the impedence up to 5mOhm. Makes a huuuuge difference on every amp sim.

Scuffham S-Gear is still my favorite for realistic feel and amp reaction, and the tone still lives up to what is out nowadays, but some people will still gripe about wanting updates for it. I also love how he focuses on more classic vintage circuits and doesn’t cater to the metal/high gain crowd, which are a dime a dozen now, I mean how many times can different companies model a 5150 now, and they’re all pretty undistinguishable from each other at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy a good chug/shred fest. Softube’s JTM 45/Blues Breaker has been on my DAW default startup template for years now, as it’s a goto for taking software and hardware pedals for cleans to light overdrive to medium gain crunch with great clarity for chords and lead lines with most guitar/pickup types.

I now will probably switch to a free NAM (Neural Amp Modeler plugin) profile capture of the Toneking Imperial, which reacts and responds and sounds even better, and takes pedals awesome, as everyone has said in the past. Every guitarist/bassist needs to try the completely free open source Neural Amp Modeler plugin with the growing amount of free profile captures of a wide variety of amps and some pedals. Not to be confused with Neural DSP, it’s accuracy and quality is a noticeable step up from Tonex and all the other capture/profile plugins/hardware. It’s accuracy or epoch deviation as it’s called, can be compared on a graph output that the capture software outputs and the deviation can usually get down to 0.2 or below for a near identical and almost indistinguishable 1:1 capture comparison from the source amp. Pretty f’n amazing. I don’t think Tonex offers you way to analyze the quality of the captures like that.

[Songwriter101]

I'll use GR5 again in the future. Snappier Interface.

But other than that Scuffham and Softube make the best amp sims imho. I'm using Lehle's sunday driver ii which puts the impedence up to 5mOhm. Makes a huuuuge difference on every amp sim.

Scuffham S-Gear is still my favorite for realistic feel and amp reaction, and the tone still lives up to what is out nowadays, but some people will still gripe about wanting updates for it. I also love how he focuses on more classic vintage circuits and doesn’t cater to the metal/high gain crowd, which are a dime a dozen now, I mean how many times can different companies model a 5150 now, and they’re all pretty undistinguishable from each other at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy a good chug/shred fest. Softube’s JTM 45/Blues Breaker has been on my DAW default startup template for years now, as it’s a goto for taking software and hardware pedals for cleans to light overdrive to medium gain crunch with great clarity for chords and lead lines with most guitar/pickup types.

I now will probably switch to a free NAM (Neural Amp Modeler plugin) profile capture of the Toneking Imperial, which reacts and responds and sounds even better, and takes pedals awesome, as everyone has said in the past. Every guitarist/bassist needs to try the completely free open source Neural Amp Modeler plugin with the growing amount of free profile captures of a wide variety of amps and some pedals. Not to be confused with Neural DSP, it’s accuracy and quality is a noticeable step up from Tonex and all the other capture/profile plugins/hardware. It’s accuracy or epoch deviation as it’s called, can be compared on a graph output that the capture software outputs and the deviation can usually get down to 0.2 or below for a near identical and almost indistinguishable 1:1 capture comparison from the source amp. Pretty f’n amazing. I don’t think Tonex offers you way to analyze the quality of the captures like that.

Thanks for the info about the NAM! Never heared of it before. Yeah, my latest blues braker acquisition by softube was a great choice. I agree!

Try the sunday driver out. It makes a huge difference. The software gets the right signal to deal with and I got rid of the fuzzy artifacts in the sound.

Cheers!

[elxsound]

I’m just happy this thing is not a dead product.

NI with PA and Izotope are all headed in a new direction. NI has solely been focused on content libraries, so seeing them add anything to GR6 is a big deal.

Hopefully it’s a good sign (but can’t tell yet).

[metalifuxx]

I'll use GR5 again in the future. Snappier Interface.

But other than that Scuffham and Softube make the best amp sims imho. I'm using Lehle's sunday driver ii which puts the impedence up to 5mOhm. Makes a huuuuge difference on every amp sim.

Scuffham S-Gear is still my favorite for realistic feel and amp reaction, and the tone still lives up to what is out nowadays, but some people will still gripe about wanting updates for it. I also love how he focuses on more classic vintage circuits and doesn’t cater to the metal/high gain crowd, which are a dime a dozen now, I mean how many times can different companies model a 5150 now, and they’re all pretty undistinguishable from each other at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy a good chug/shred fest. Softube’s JTM 45/Blues Breaker has been on my DAW default startup template for years now, as it’s a goto for taking software and hardware pedals for cleans to light overdrive to medium gain crunch with great clarity for chords and lead lines with most guitar/pickup types.

I now will probably switch to a free NAM (Neural Amp Modeler plugin) profile capture of the Toneking Imperial, which reacts and responds and sounds even better, and takes pedals awesome, as everyone has said in the past. Every guitarist/bassist needs to try the completely free open source Neural Amp Modeler plugin with the growing amount of free profile captures of a wide variety of amps and some pedals. Not to be confused with Neural DSP, it’s accuracy and quality is a noticeable step up from Tonex and all the other capture/profile plugins/hardware. It’s accuracy or epoch deviation as it’s called, can be compared on a graph output that the capture software outputs and the deviation can usually get down to 0.2 or below for a near identical and almost indistinguishable 1:1 capture comparison from the source amp. Pretty f’n amazing. I don’t think Tonex offers you way to analyze the quality of the captures like that.

Thanks for the info about the NAM! Never heared of it before. Yeah, my latest blues braker acquisition by softube was a great choice. I agree!

Try the sunday driver out. It makes a huge difference. The software gets the right signal to deal with and I got rid of the fuzzy artifacts in the sound.

Cheers!

I started a thread for it a few weeks ago here, but it keeps getting buried past the first page. Unfortunately the dev doesn’t have a proper dedicated website/forum platform setup for it yet, and all discussions/updates and amp captures are on the Facebook group right now (which detracts a lot of people and traffic from noticing this awesome piece of free guitar amp plugin technology). On the KVR thread i try to update the model pack zip on a google drive as much as i can. All the direct github/facebook links are there and the google drive links for ever growing collected profile captures (now about 200+) from the FB group posts are in one easy to grab and go package. If you are intrigued and like it, please spread the word about it. It’s still technically in beta but it functions just fine, at least the NAM capture rig player plugin. I’m not sure how to get it officially spotlighted on the KVR news front page, maybe Steve Ack (Acktinson), the developer, needs to be the one to contact whoever it is at KVR.

[Songwriter101]

I'll use GR5 again in the future. Snappier Interface.

But other than that Scuffham and Softube make the best amp sims imho. I'm using Lehle's sunday driver ii which puts the impedence up to 5mOhm. Makes a huuuuge difference on every amp sim.

Scuffham S-Gear is still my favorite for realistic feel and amp reaction, and the tone still lives up to what is out nowadays, but some people will still gripe about wanting updates for it. I also love how he focuses on more classic vintage circuits and doesn’t cater to the metal/high gain crowd, which are a dime a dozen now, I mean how many times can different companies model a 5150 now, and they’re all pretty undistinguishable from each other at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy a good chug/shred fest. Softube’s JTM 45/Blues Breaker has been on my DAW default startup template for years now, as it’s a goto for taking software and hardware pedals for cleans to light overdrive to medium gain crunch with great clarity for chords and lead lines with most guitar/pickup types.

I now will probably switch to a free NAM (Neural Amp Modeler plugin) profile capture of the Toneking Imperial, which reacts and responds and sounds even better, and takes pedals awesome, as everyone has said in the past. Every guitarist/bassist needs to try the completely free open source Neural Amp Modeler plugin with the growing amount of free profile captures of a wide variety of amps and some pedals. Not to be confused with Neural DSP, it’s accuracy and quality is a noticeable step up from Tonex and all the other capture/profile plugins/hardware. It’s accuracy or epoch deviation as it’s called, can be compared on a graph output that the capture software outputs and the deviation can usually get down to 0.2 or below for a near identical and almost indistinguishable 1:1 capture comparison from the source amp. Pretty f’n amazing. I don’t think Tonex offers you way to analyze the quality of the captures like that.

Thanks for the info about the NAM! Never heared of it before. Yeah, my latest blues braker acquisition by softube was a great choice. I agree!

Try the sunday driver out. It makes a huge difference. The software gets the right signal to deal with and I got rid of the fuzzy artifacts in the sound.

Cheers!

I started a thread for it a few weeks ago here, but it keeps getting buried past the first page. Unfortunately the dev doesn’t have a proper dedicated website/forum platform setup for it yet, and all discussions/updates and amp captures are on the Facebook group right now (which detracts a lot of people and traffic from noticing this awesome piece of free guitar amp plugin technology). On the KVR thread i try to update the model pack zip on a google drive as much as i can. All the direct github/facebook links are there and the google drive links for ever growing collected profile captures (now about 200+) from the FB group posts are in one easy to grab and go package. If you are intrigued and like it, please spread the word about it. It’s still technically in beta but it functions just fine, at least the NAM capture rig player plugin. I’m not sure how to get it officially spotlighted on the KVR news front page, maybe Steve Ack (Acktinson), the developer, needs to be the one to contact whoever it is at KVR.

Yeah, I am not on fb but I will check it out.

Maybe someone on kvr could code a simple site. Accessibilty is very important.

[metalifuxx]

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Yeah, I am not on fb but I will check it out.

Maybe someone on kvr could code a simple site. Accessibilty is very important.
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At this point, it’s only a solo hobby for him and he is just the lone programmer. Not sure if he has any website knowledge. It’s turned into an open source community effort to report bugs/offer improvements, share profiles, improve the capture process conversion process (server vs running on your local computer), get a model repository download site (which has been started). People have been brainstorming and trying to offer help in creating a comprehensive website for all this in one place at the moment, so any help or suggestions in doing so is appreciated.

[noiseboyuk]

Something I don't really get is that - from my understanding - the modelling in the new amps in GR6 is akin to IK's Tonex. (or is that wrong?) If so, it should be trivial to add more amps, as with Tonex. Since NI promised many more models to come, how come there are still precisely zero new ones?

Maybe their graphic designers are super meticulous.

[vurt]

Something I don't really get is that - from my understanding - the modelling in the new amps in GR6 is akin to IK's Tonex. (or is that wrong?) If so, it should be trivial to add more amps, as with Tonex. Since NI promised many more models to come, how come there are still precisely zero new ones?

Maybe their graphic designers are super meticulous.

iks tonex only takes a snapshot, a preset, you can't change it.
if this is a full range model, with knobs that work, id assume it takes a little more "something" but im no programmer!