We created a custom made, fully automatized, robotic measurement system. Best of all, we’ve re-measured over 100 cabinets in AmpliTube 5 Max, refreshing every single cabinet for a massive 143,000 IRs in all. AmpliTube’s movable microphones now truly shine, with an easy-to-use grid that lets you snap to a precise IR point or seamlessly blend between multiple measurements.
IK’s new Volumetric Impulse Response (VIR™) uses 600 IRs per speaker, 1,200 IRs for a 2-speaker cab and 2,400 IRs for a 4-speaker cab, capturing a massive 3D array of mic placement options, plus all the interactions between speakers, cabinet and floor for a completely true-to-life sound. A lot more gear.ĪmpliTube 5 also premieres a re-engineered Cabinet section with all-new DSP. The EQs and compressors are as well high quality and combined with the sound of the cabinets and IRs we have almost an infinite choice regarding CLEAN, CRUNCH, and DISTORTED sounds.IK Multimedia's AmpliTube software has forged a formidable reputation over the years for offering a comprehensive array of digital tone-tweaking tools, but AmpliTube 5 promises to eclipse its predecessors with with a newly designed GUI that is fully scalable and supports Retina displays, an enhanced user experience, and more gear. We can easily experiment to sculpt and obtain the sounds we desire the most. The level of the effects is indeed very high: many of the most important vintage and modern effect sounds are perfectly replicated, from phasers, delays, reverbs, wah, flangers and many others. We will definitely have the impression of playing through a real mic’ed amp in the studio, plus the additional effects that we can freely wire as preferred. The sound is overall credible, and high-quality. Likewise, we can add EQ and compression and in general, we have full control of each parameter of the cabinet itself. We can simulate a 3D ambient in which the different cabinets interact with each other and with the sound of the room. We can implement more than 600 different IRs for every speaker, and experiment with different mics placements, interacting with the sound coming from the floor and from the room. This is simply amazing, and it will give virtually infinite possibilities. We will be able to put together vintage amps that would be very difficult to own in real life, like old vintage Fender and Marshall, and add to them modern IRs and effects. What’s amazing is that, other than sounding great, Amplitube offers a lot of possibilities in therm of signal routing.
We can, of course, load different impulse responses to widening our sound choice and toggle around the settings of each cabinet to obtain the best possible result. We can also choose different types of microphones and their placements. There are all the most important historic amplifiers: from Fender to Marshall, passing through Mesa-Boogie and Soldano. In Amplitube, we will find a wide collection of different guitar amps. Can find some information about these software here.Īmplitube can also be accessible and controlled by external hardware, the IRig Stomp: (Image credit: Thomann) This is of course the complete version of the entire software, and it includes everything you need to have your accurate guitar tones in any style.įurthermore, Amplitube can be used as a stand-alone software in MAC and Windows platforms, or can be accessible to any DAW like Logic, Protools and Nuendo. You can at your ease add custom kits and amp bundles that you can buy from the website, so you can tailor this version to your exigences.ĪmpliTube MAX includes more than 400 gear models, including 11 brand/artist collections – but does cost $599.99/€599.99. AmpliTube standard edition costs a bit more, $299.99/€299.99, but it does include over 170 pieces of kit. AmpliTube SE contains 80 pieces of gear for $149.99/€149.99. It’s free and includes 42 essential amps and effects. Inside Amplitube (Image credit: Sweetwater)ĪmpliTube 5 is available in four versions: AmpliTube CS is the slimline version.