Some suggestions please

[sixways]

My current problem:

Working on a tune, it has roughly 4 guitar parts in it. Well, it would, if my PC allowed. I've got a clean guitar, a crunchy guitar, a distorted guitar, and a lead guitar. I want to run Amplitude on each of them with different settings. As you know, 4 instances of Amplitude will eat your resources quickly. Is there a way around this? I'm currently doing it as an insert effect so its not printing to the track, goes back uneffected if the insert is removed.

Using M-Powered Protools on a 2.8ghz P4 with 768 RAM.

Thanks,
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[something cool]

Take each track, and duplicate it using a new playlist, so that you have the original, dry track on one playlist, and the same track that you'll be affecting on another playlist.

Next, save your Amplitube settings for each track, and make the plug-ins inactive by Windows + Ctrl-clicking on them (I think that's the right key combo ... it's Ctrl + Cmd-click on my Mac anyway). The plug in button will turn greyed-out and the name will be italicized when it's inactive.

After that, select one of your tracks, go to the Audiosuite menu, and pull up Amplitube. Import the proper settings for that track, and hit process. Do this for each track.

You'll now have your properly-affected tracks to work with, and your computer won't have to run Amplitube on the fly. Then, if you decide that you don't like a certain effect, it's easy enough to go back to your original tracks, make a new playlist, re-enable the plug-in (which will still have the settings you left it with), make some tweaks, re-save the settings, make the plug-in inactive again, and process the audio once more. Still kind of a pain in the butt but it's better than starting over every time or losing your original audio tracks.

[sixways]

Amplitude doesn't show up in my Audiosuite, just in inserts. Any idea why?

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[logie48]

768 RAM??

Doesnt sound good...Your computer should run on similar RAM chips

eg. one 1gb RAM chip

or

two 512 MB RAM chips that run in the same speed (Hz)

if you have one at 256 and one at 512 it causes the 512 to run slower

[sixways]

The 256 is fixed. I can't change it...can I?

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[something cool]

Originally Posted by sixways

Amplitude doesn't show up in my Audiosuite, just in inserts. Any idea why?

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Did you look in 'Other' on the pull-down menu? That's where mine shows up...