Amp Modeling plugins...

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I'm looking for an amp modeler that uses as little CPU power as possible. I've tried Amplitube, but my machine isn't fast enough to run it along with more than about 10 tracks.

Does anyone know of some good software like this?
 
They're all pretty CPU heavy. My computer is old and struggles with amp sims. Here's what I do when I use them:

Mute everything that doesn't need to be running to track guitars. Record a direct guitar track with the sim and save it. This is the basic raw guitar track. Duplicate that basic guitar track, mute the original guitar track, dial in the tone you want on the duplicated track and burn the sim on to the track so it's permanent. Turn the sim on the duplicated track off, and you're left with a track that's like you recorded it from an amp with no CPU power being eaten up. If you need to tweak the tone, go back to your original guitar track, make another duplicate and do it all over again. Do this for each of your guitar tracks. Just make sure you always have the raw, direct guitar track saved and muted so you can go back and tweak as much as necessary while never having to leave sims running and eating up CPU power. It seems like a retarded amount of steps and work, and it is, but it works for older, less powerful machines.
 
Alright! Thanks for your help on the matter!

One more thing though. How might one burn the effect to the second track in cubase 5? I've heard of this sort of thing before, but i could never seem to figure it out. Do you know what the terms are in cubase so I can look through my manual for them?
 
I have no idea about cubase, but I'm sure it's doable. Check your manual.


And make sure you set your settings so that muted tracks don't allow plug-ins to run in the background.
 
Call me crazy, but I would choose the free ones with separate impulses over paid ones any day, and not just because it's a paid version. I actually find that the amps have more gain than those of paid software (in my experiences.) I use Poulin amps, TSE, Acmebar Gig, Nick Crow, and a few others going through LeCab 1 by Poulin. I usually use the default impulses, but you can find free ones on the interwebs quite easily.
 
to get the track printed in cubase including the effects (amp sim) simply solo the track with the amp sim on set your markers at the start and end of the track and go to file Top left), export, audio . choose your file location and then make a new track and import it back into the project and mute the old track and disable the amp sim to save cpu
hope this helps
 
If you can run 10 instances of amplitude your computer is no slouch.
 
Guitargodgt said:
If you can run 10 instances of amplitude your computer is no slouch.
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Seriously. Why do you need ten tracks?

Try to combine all of the tracks that are the same guitar part into one master track. It's called a compilation in Logic.
 
You should render each track after your done recording to save on CPU resources. You can also set the quality mode to ECO to save some CPU as well.
 
i dont record guitar much but i treat it like an outboard amp generally and just bounce it straight after I record it...some times too much flexibility gets in the way
 
Yeah I agree. If I don't render it I spend a lot longer in the mix trying to reshape the tone. After its rendered you can just accept it and focus on the mix/song more. And I have an i7 with tons of room to spare to run 10+ instances at once!
 
So to clarify, I'm never trying to run 10 tracks using amplitube. Just two atm. But with 10 total tracks (including those 2) my machine starts to crap out. That does include other processing too, like compression, a bit of verb, etc.

Thanks for all the help! I think I have it squared away for the time being.
 
Ahh okay, yeah just rendering the tracks should help you save some Processing power.
 
I use the waves GTR modeling, its cheapish and works for me
I'm using reaper which gives you the ability to record the output of a track so you can record the guitar with the amp modelling in place and then take off the VST when you want to record the next one so as not to have to keep tons of instances running at once
Like others have mentioned I like to try and get the sound up front and record it rather than endlessly tweak after recording.
I also like to use real pedals in front of the interface as I prefer the sound verses the software ones, especially wah and over drive.

Treat the amp model like a real amp (ie spend time with it and really get to know it and to make it work with your tone) and you can get some nice results. And it nice to have multiple heads and speker cabs and mic options available without having to drop several thousands on hardware when you want to layer sounds
 
I use Eleven and enjoy it for demos before final tracking. I usually then record the DI and reamp with multiple amps combined into 1 or 2 tracks.

Cheers
 
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