Amplitube 3 DEMO IS HERE!!!!!!

[metalifuxx]

Same beats as before, but some different riffs and melodies:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/630473/Amp3_ran ... gein10.mp3

I like this . I can tell you listen to Tool, yes?

I'll upload my psychedelic Pink Floydish jam on the Orange amp with a Strat in a few. I'm liking the Swell pedal in combination with the Multi Tap delay using the reverse function on some taps. This thing is begging to be used with some slide and ebow for some far out shoegazer ambient face melt space jams. That EH Flanger pedal is something else too.

[Amberience]

One thing I don't like - there is a small gap of silence between changing patches - it isn't seamless. I guess I could use more than one instance, and flip the input between them... but I'd like a live mode, where seamless patch switching is available.

[monkeymanx]

Been playing around with the demo contemplating purchase. The cabinets sound better than AMP 2 but I still think good IR's sound better. I've been A/B'ing stuff in Cubase. I guess it's tough for me to justify purchasing because I already have so much other stuff both payware and freeware.

For metal and hard hard rock, I'm just not getting into AMP 3. The crunch and clean style amps do sound good, and the effects are great. I already have Amp 2, metal, and fender. Seems like there are a bunch of reused amps from Metal in here. The ones from AMP 2 do sound different though. Their modern tube lead sounds different, but I think that is because the default uses a different power amp than amp 2's original settings.

That Orange amp does sound great though for a crunch style sound. And the cab section is an improvement over what was offered in AMP 2. It's a good overall package.

[glokraw]

Tested about 30 setups in linux, both standalone, and as a plugin with Reaper.
Works well as expected. All the IK products I have tried work in linux.
As for sound quality, the few dozen I played are really nice, showing off the
capabilities very well. After I found Fender was equal to, or better than Hendrix and Metal,
a surprise to me, at least, its nice to hear more fresh takes that make AV3 stand out as a separate high quality product.

And the gui is very nice on the eyes

Linux, really? Nice! Now I know how to better answer this question that comes up Do you have any HOWTO or anything? Or do we "just work" (to borrow another company's phrase hehe). Thank you for the kind words about the improvements and the previous products too.

I'll send a few details, in PM, to keep the thread on topic.

[blueman]

What amazes me about the amps is how little tweaking is needed. On a lot of them I'll call up the default setting and play for a good 10 to 15 minutes before I realize I haven't touched a knob.

Exactly! Just how it is (usually) with real amps

[Amberience]

Same beats as before, but some different riffs and melodies:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/630473/Amp3_ran ... gein10.mp3

I like this . I can tell you listen to Tool, yes?

I'll upload my psychedelic Pink Floydish jam on the Orange amp with a Strat in a few. I'm liking the Swell pedal in combination with the Multi Tap delay using the reverse function on some taps. This thing is begging to be used with some slide and ebow for some far out shoegazer ambient face melt space jams. That EH Flanger pedal is something else too.

Big fan of Tool; but I listen to looooaaaaddds of stuff; my taste is varied.

The swell effect is greaatt!

[zerocrossing]

The only thing that hasn't convinced me is the spring reverb. It sounds really sproingy. Maybe that's how it's supposed to sound but I've played Fenders all my life and they usually don't get that wacked until you turn it up past 4 or so. Actually the two spring units sound quite a bit better to me but of course they're not stock.

I'll do a little more tooling around with the Fender models and see what I think. Peter, are the models included as good as Amplitube Fender? Or anyone else with access to both products can chime in.

Thanks IK! y'all rock

In Amplitube 3 you can go into the preferences and choose either "spring" or "digital" for a global reverb choice. Frankly still feel like the reverb on all the models (Fender and otherwise) go from nothing to to much by about 1.3. The digital isn't sproingy but I'll admit, I'm not even a fan of real spring reverbs for guitar. I'll almost always use a digital reverb in the rack or put Reflect after Amplitube if the guitar is a focal point in the mix.

OK, screw all that. Screw the amp reverb. Screw the rack reverb. In the cab section choose "hall" turn the level up a bit and use that instead. Perfect!

[geroyannis]

I have a question:
OK, so now Amplitube supports stereo routing, but do the effects accept stereo input? I mean, are they true stereo? For example, can I run a stereo electric piano track through the analog chorus in the rack and keep the original stereo information of the piano track without summing it first in mono? It seems to me that this is not possible.

When using routing option number 2, a stereo signal is split in two: the left-hand signal is routed thru Stomp A, Amp A, Cab A, Rack A and the right-hand signal is routed thru Stomp B, Amp B, Cab B, Rack B. All stomps,Amps, Cabs and Racks seem to be Mono, so it appears that the "stereo routing" in reality means "dual mono routing" ... i.e. if you want an analog chorus in the rack placed on a stereo signal, then you need to place an analog chorus in Rack A and another analog chorus in Rack B ...

Yeah, that's what I thought. So, the effects are not really true stereo. Despite what we were led to think by some IK representatives around here during the pre-order period...

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

Apologies, but the CE-1 thread had me correcting that soon after, didn't mean to confuse anything. The rack Stereo Chorus is stereo as it was in previous versions. Edit - I've also been discussing and suggesting things as far as maybe some more stereo options so maybe there will be some cool updates on this front.

[carltonec]

I just ran into my first snafu opening one of my older presets I did in X-Gear. It is a bass preset I did with the Ampeg SVT-Classic amp. The settings on the amp did not import (they were all in the 5 o'clock position after import), and when I turned the knobs to where I had them before, it sounded nothing like the older preset. I loaded X-Gear up to make sure there was nothing wrong with the preset, and it sounded fine under X-Gear.... the knobs where how I left them. Opened it again in AT3, and it was altogether different. The stomps and racks imported just fine though, with all the settings I had still intact. Go figure.
Not a big deal, I dialed it in until it was close (and actually better this time), but I didn't think that AmpegSVX would sound different under Amplitube 3. Also, sometimes when I open an older preset it says that I do not have everything the preset is asking for, or something like that. I have EVERY one of them installed.

I am digging this though. I absolutely love moving the mics around to find the sweet spot. This really helps me find the right tone. I use to try to do it with eq, but let's face it.... eq cannot sound the same as moving a mic around in front of a speaker.

[HeavyTRAFFIK]

I just ran into my first snafu opening one of my older presets I did in X-Gear. It is a bass preset I did with the Ampeg SVT-Classic amp. The settings on the amp did not import (they were all in the 5 o'clock position after import), and when I turned the knobs to where I had them before, it sounded nothing like the older preset. I loaded X-Gear up to make sure there was nothing wrong with the preset, and it sounded fine under X-Gear.... the knobs where how I left them. Opened it again in AT3, and it was altogether different. The stomps and racks imported just fine though, with all the settings I had still intact. Go figure.
Not a big deal, I dialed it in until it was close (and actually better this time), but I didn't think that AmpegSVX would sound different under Amplitube 3. Also, sometimes when I open an older preset it says that I do not have everything the preset is asking for, or something like that. I have EVERY one of them installed.

I am digging this though. I absolutely love moving the mics around to find the sweet spot. This really helps me find the right tone. I use to try to do it with eq, but let's face it.... eq cannot sound the same as moving a mic around in front of a speaker.

Does this happen with all presets you've imported from previous Amplitube products? Because one of IK's boasts about Amplitube 3 is that both the new AND already existing models have been improved using a new algorithmic simulations (the same used in Amplitube Fender. My GAWD those amps sound nice!)

So I suppose that these improvements mean that the signal is processed differently, hence your older presets sounding different. I've noticed that with some of my own presets also, but a little tweaking has brought them around nicely. And indeed a bit better if I may say so. Nice job IK!

[shanecgriffo]

maybe the difference with presets is in the room/mic/cab area ?

[yellowfever]

I'm curious as to why all the hype for this? We mainly use synths and this is a guitar amp simulation? Did I miss something?? Is it really worth all the hype??

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I'm curious as to why all the hype for this? We mainly use synths and this is a guitar amp simulation? Did I miss something?? Is it really worth all the hype??

When you say "we mainly use synths," which "we" are you referring to? I mainly use guitars and bass. It appears I'm not alone.

[shanecgriffo]

i'm mainly guitar too ,but love having a bit of a tweak on synths too