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Vandal perfection through simplicity 2010-04-28T20:09:51+00:00 I have recently purchased Magix Vandal. I gotta say I am more than satisfied, as I hoped, since I also use samplitude as a DAW. My problem with most amp modelers is that they spend too much time trying to look good and have an individual lood for all the different amps. This is cool and fun but, I want the tone and thease of making presets. Vandal gives me this.I have made presets for Pink Floyd, Satriani, Accept, Guns and Roses, Jackyl, Metalica, and Rammstein. I have found, for myself, that creating presets is very hard to do in other amp sims. Not to say that the procedure is complicated, but trying to mix and match to get the sound has been the ultimate problem for me. I think mostly,because the chain of effects usually is just too long to get the tone you want. I don't particularly care if this is to emulate the real world or not. I just wanna jam. Let's face it using an amp sim is not the real world, so let's not delude ourselves into thinking the process has to be as complicated as the real world counterparts. It just seems that with Vandal you don't have to worry about using the "proper" stomp pedal, amp, or cabinet. Instead, just let your ears do the work till you get the sound you want. So far every preset I have made for myself has only taken a matter of minutes, instead of hours. I realize the presets I have mentioned are not all that complicated, except for Satriani, and to some extent Pink Floyd. but even these were pretty easy. I will admit, my Satriani preset is not perfect, but I have not come across one for any other amp sim that was perfect. Nonetheless, it's damn close. I am not gonna take the time to upload these presets or give written instruction, for two reasons. 1.Vandal makes it simple. 2. Whenever I have used other peoples presets, I have not been satisfied, because people don't take into account how much difference a different guitar makes. So my presets are set for my guitar. Anyway I just can't say enough good things about Vandal. I have seen that they are working on improvements, which is great. But I am happy already. In closing I will say the only other amp sim I have is Revlaver MKII Live, which is a great host for Vandal. And I do really like some of the clean tones that I can get with Revalver. But for comparison I have used, at great length, Amplitube 2, and Guitar Rig 3. Of those two Amplitube has it hands down, but compared to Vandal, I'm not so sure. I do know that Vandal is a hell of a lot lighter than Amp2, plus I don't have to go to my buddy's house to use Vandal :D rauchen https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=198529

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Post by sascha » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:28 pm

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Pädy wrote:Will test it tonight.

Why is there no downloadable Mac version for purchase? Will that come?

Cheers, Pädy

Currently only boxed. Download version is planned, but no date atm.

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