Anyone else have Amplitube? Played with it?

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I just got a demo version of this badboy the other day.

I got a chance to work on an entire session with one, and I was quite impressed. I've played with the usual suspects: POD, J-Station, V-AMP 2, etc.

. . . and I think this thing might be a sonic match for any of them. Probably better.

I think I'm going to register this thing. Of course it's not a substitute for a real amp, but as an amp modeler I think it's well worth the $300.
 
Yep, I've used it. It's pretty cool. I don't have a POD but I've heard them and I like this just as much.
 
I am using it with Cubasis.
I was misinformed when I first got it, or else I misunderstood its operation.
I thought it would do the effect in real time, so I could hear what I am playing through the effect immediately. But no.
Once I got over the disappointment, I have become more and more impressed with the quality of the patches available.
One thing I've noticed, is that to make the most of the plug in, your input should be as clean as possible. I run my Godin's piezo output with the eq flat directly into either my mixer or a Art MP studio pre. I have gotten the best results this way.
Have only had time to play with it, not record anything special, but as I said, I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality.
I don't know what you get on the demo, but in the full version, they have some VIP tones that are just amazingly accurate (I'm partial to the SRV tone myself).

My $.02 says it's worth the money.

mike
 
You must be doing something wrong because mine works real time. Meaning I can plug direct into my PC and use the patches just like I was plugged into an amp. Unless that is not what you meant when you said "I thought it would do the effect in real time, so I could hear what I am playing through the effect immediately"
 
I get 1024 samples of latency using the HTDM (demo) version on Pro Tools TDM. That's pretty much playable, though I usually record a direct track, then monitor back through amplitube to avoid feeling the latency. I usually use Line6 AmpFarm as a monitoring guide when I'm recording, since with that I only get 30 samples of delay, which is pretty easy to play through.

Unlike everyone else, I don't think it's worth the money. The distorted sounds are so over-the-top as to be almost useless. The clean sounds suffer from the opposite problem... the fact that you can't change the gain of the clean sounds drives me nuts. It's novel being able to mix and match preamps with tone stacks and power amps, but the models just sound like crap to me. Way too saturated, and when the distortion is low enough to actually use in a mix, it just doesn't sound good. The effects are pretty much useless. I have never heard an overdrive pedal of any sort, even a 30 dollar Danelectro, that sounded anywhere near as lifeless and awful as the one that's built in. The chorus and dleay are too muddy, I have a bunch of vintage pedals that sound nowhere near this cloudy. And the reverb is atrocious. To me it would be better to include no reverb than one that just sounds terrible, especially since almost any DAW includes a decent reverb. Clearly IK Multimedia has a long way to go with this stuff. To me, this should be about a $50 plugin, simply because it is only useful as a novelty. In general, lately I've been feeling like a lot of companies are charging way too much for limited use plugins, and this is no exception.

Anyone who disagrees with me is welcome to post samples; I'd love to hear what sounds good about this to other people. Maybe I'm just not setting it right.
 
Ok. I'm doing a demo for a local band. I used samplitube on the guitar for scratch tracks while tracking the drums. It came out good enough that the guy wanted to keep it. You can check it out at

Pride & Joy
 
That clean sound's not bad. It's just unresponsive, you can hear it flabbing out whenever the guitarist plays too fast. This is definitely one of the better sounds I've heard from amplitube, but I would not pick that over the real thing if I had the choice.

The dirty sound, though, is everything I hate about amplitube. Ughh... no life to it, totally one-dimensional sounding. You should absolutely overrule the guitarist on that one and insist that he overdub.
 
Actually it is the guitar player flubbing out on the fast parts. He isn't really that good. I don't like the dirty sound that much either. But, I thought the clean was, alright.
 
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