AmpliTube 3

[fnord23]

There was a download there for 5 mins, then it was gone.
I think there was something wrong with it. ( Se my other post)

[Nuno_F]

Originally Posted by fnord23

There was a download there for 5 mins, then it was gone.
I think there was something wrong with it. ( Se my other post)

Seems on KVR there are a load of people having installation problems like you under windows. Maybe that's it.

[trock]

someone just posted they have it up and running on their mac over there on KVR!

[K-Slash]

It has been confirmed that the Windows installer has a bug.

A new fixed version is going to be uploaded as soon as possible !

[CKK]

What about the mac version? If it is ok - then release it for us to enjoy

[fnord23]

Originally Posted by K-Slash

It has been confirmed that the Windows installer has a bug.

A new fixed version is going to be uploaded as soon as possible !

That brings up the question, how soon is soon?!

[fnord23]

New download is up!

[Nuno_F]

It's there again. That was pretty soon.

[Peter - IK]

Yeah, we've pushed through the installer issue and I'll be posting the official release in a moment. Thank you so much for your interest.

[Peter - IK]

AmpliTube 3 Now Shipping
The New King of Tone is here

IK Multimedia is proud to announce that AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software, is now shipping!

What's New

• Now includes over 160 models of vintage and modern gear
• 30 new vintage gear models and creative effects and 70 "re-mastered" gear models from AmpliTube Metal and AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™
• 51 Stompbox effects, 31 Amps, 46 Cabinets, 15 Studio Mics and 17 Rack effects
• New cabinet/room module with double freely movable mics
• Incredible new rotary speaker simulation with VRM™
• New Stomp & Rack FX "drag & drop" configuration
• Now includes both mono and full stereo signal paths
• New advanced preset organization and management
• New "MIDI learn" feature for compatibility with any controller
• New 4 track audio recorder/player with SpeedTrainer in standalone
• New "eco-mid-hi" quality modes
• Improved overall performance
• New built-in expandability

More Info

• Download the demo and have a full-functioning AmpliTube 3 for 10 days
• Watch the premiere trailer and a special look at AmpliTube 3
• Sample some AmpliTube 3 audio demos

Pricing and Availability

AmpliTube 3
$349.99/€269.99

AmpliTube 3 Crossgrade (available to any IK registered user)
$269.99/€199.99

AmpliTube 3 Upgrade (available to all previous AmpliTube 2, AmpliTube Metal, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, AmpliTube Fender™ or Ampeg® SVX™ registered users)
$199.99/€149.99

• AmpliTube 3 Pedal (bundled with StealthPedal USB/MIDI controller and audio interface)
$399.99/€299.99

These products are already available in the IK Online Store, and through our network of dealers and distributors worldwide.


*All prices excluding taxes.

[tvboy123]

I'm very excited about this :D:D:D!!!!

[esteso]

Hmm, still a no show in my download account. (I must have this!)

Cheers,

[Peter - IK]

Originally Posted by esteso

Hmm, still a no show in my download account. (I must have this!)

Cheers,

The emails are going out in a phased fashion and will be out to everyone today. Thanks for your excitement and your patience!

[BigJunk]

so are these completely new code from version2?
Junk

[Lipps]

ik/ptle/multi core macs dont mix. when thats fixed i might jump

[esteso]

Originally Posted by BigJunk

so are these completely new code from version2?
Junk

I don't know about completely reworked but this thing is incredible. A whole different beast than amp 2.

Go to KVR for more info.

[Austmann]

Originally Posted by Peter - IK

The emails are going out in a phased fashion and will be out to everyone today. Thanks for your excitement and your patience!

just opened my mail and AT3 is ready for download,yay!!
one question id like to ask is how big in gb is AT3??
i only have wireless internet so if its not to much then it would be ok,as i downloaded also miroslav arround 7 gigs if i remember, if its over 10 then i might go and download it from a friends house.

[CaliTone]

I haven't gotten my email yet!

Couldn't wait so I downloaded the demo. Listened to all the presets.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What an improvement over Amplitube 2. I was never a fan of A2. I always thought it was in the same league as my POD XT. A3 on the other hand is miles ahead. What a great upgrade!!! Definitely worth the wait. I'm going to have lots of fun with this one.

GREAT JOB IKMULTIMEDIA!!!!

[Johnkenn]

It's pretty unbelievable...This is going to bring a lot of people on board...

[Nuno_F]

I managed to spend a couple of hours with this today. it's pretty much what I expected it to be. I was already completely convinced by amplitube fender and amplitube 3 is of the same quality.

The 4 track is actually a nice idea. I tried usig this on my laptop with NI kore as an interface and it is a nice way to put down some ideas.

There seem to be some GUI redraw issues in Windows 7 though and I also had a crash, but it may have been due to Kore.

The JC120 is great for guitar and there's at least one bass preset (Bass thick 1) that I think sounds better even than ampeg SVX.

Great stuff

[Lenzo]

Just played with the demo for over an hour. Some great sounds. Feels good.
Unfortunately for me on a Mac G5 Quad with 8 gigs of ram, running PTLE 8.01, it crashes constantly. I'd be interested in hearing if others with a similar setup have it running smoothly. My system is pretty problem free when it comes to plug ins, but it is an older machine, so it just may be that I'll have to wait until I get a 8 core. Too bad for me. I can see this as being a great tool.
L.

[feck]

I am a big IK fan/user, so I will be using this for sure. I will say that I still find that the amps just don't clean up well when the volume knob is dialed back, especially compared to the Axe Fx which kills at that. It has always seemed to me that the IK sims just need to be played with the guitar at full volume, and if you want to clean up the sounds realistically, it is best to do that on the amp. I look forward to ITB sims cleaning up like real amps though. Oh well, it isn't that hard to adjust the gain on the amp model.

[Agreed]

That has a lot to do with your setup, though. I feed amp modelers a signal that is as hot as my interface will go without clipping/limiting when my guitar's volume pot is wide open. ReValver allows you to manually set the nominal input voltage on the amp model itself, and Amplitube's input trim sort of seems to do something like that, but my logic is that amp modelers don't have the benefit of actually being a megaohm load with a real amp front-end, they're software emulations that make do with what they've got. Since you can't precisely define nominal input voltage, giving the modeler the hottest signal it can take without actually sacrificing dynamics makes dead sure that you're getting the full range of what it can do with your guitar's signal.

This method has not failed me since the AT2 days, and it allows for great control over the virtual amp with your guitar's volume knob. Give it a shot and see if it helps the clean-to-crunch issue you're having?

Also I really can't say enough nice things about some of these amps, absolutely loving the MkIII and the Orange models, and the new effects are great. With the resonance filter and a comp in the rack, I can make a very cool cello sound... relaxing, almost, even though it requires one of the high gain amps for the evenness and sustain. And drag and drop - I know we've wanted drag and drop forever, other software has had it and it may indeed have been "high time," but it still rocks to be able to move stuff around. Having been so used to the X-Gear workflow since it was mostly what I used in my own projects, I am still tickled that thanks to drag-and-drop and preset saving I don't have to meticulously plan my effects path before hand.

[CKK]

First gen. macpro quadcore here - running just fine. One core at a third with the highest res.

[feck]

Hey Agreed. If I am not mistaken, what you are saying here is that you constantly hit the sim with the loudest signal you can, which makes sense. Which is exactly what I am saying - when attenuating with the guitar volume knob, the quality suffers dramatically. I understand that sims do calculations based on the quality of the input signal, so the lower it is, the less "well" it is able to do its job. But the AxeFX is a sim, and it actually responds more drastically to guitar volume attenuation than a real amp does, which is one of the things that I love about it. So, it certainly can be done on a sliding scale within the software. I suppose that is one of the strengths of the Axe, and of course Amplitube has its own set of strengths. With Amplitube, when I back off of the guitar volume, the sim just sounds like a quieter version of the louder signal - velocity scaling, in other words. I am a huge advocate of ITB sims and make almost all of my records with them, so I am fine to do the workarounds. But when I hear guitarists saying that sims aren't "as good" as real amps, well, when I think about this issue, I have to agree with them. With all things, the technology will certainly improve. And that isn't to say that there aren't some great improvements with this new software. The mic movement/adjustment is awesome, and I look forward to making some killer recordings with it.

Originally Posted by Agreed

That has a lot to do with your setup, though. I feed amp modelers a signal that is as hot as my interface will go without clipping/limiting when my guitar's volume pot is wide open. ReValver allows you to manually set the nominal input voltage on the amp model itself, and Amplitube's input trim sort of seems to do something like that, but my logic is that amp modelers don't have the benefit of actually being a megaohm load with a real amp front-end, they're software emulations that make do with what they've got. Since you can't precisely define nominal input voltage, giving the modeler the hottest signal it can take without actually sacrificing dynamics makes dead sure that you're getting the full range of what it can do with your guitar's signal.

This method has not failed me since the AT2 days, and it allows for great control over the virtual amp with your guitar's volume knob. Give it a shot and see if it helps the clean-to-crunch issue you're having?

Also I really can't say enough nice things about some of these amps, absolutely loving the MkIII and the Orange models, and the new effects are great. With the resonance filter and a comp in the rack, I can make a very cool cello sound... relaxing, almost, even though it requires one of the high gain amps for the evenness and sustain. And drag and drop - I know we've wanted drag and drop forever, other software has had it and it may indeed have been "high time," but it still rocks to be able to move stuff around. Having been so used to the X-Gear workflow since it was mostly what I used in my own projects, I am still tickled that thanks to drag-and-drop and preset saving I don't have to meticulously plan my effects path before hand.

[shanecgriffo]

Originally Posted by Lenzo

Just played with the demo for over an hour. Some great sounds. Feels good.
Unfortunately for me on a Mac G5 Quad with 8 gigs of ram, running PTLE 8.01, it crashes constantly. I'd be interested in hearing if others with a similar setup have it running smoothly. My system is pretty problem free when it comes to plug ins, but it is an older machine, so it just may be that I'll have to wait until I get a 8 core. Too bad for me. I can see this as being a great tool.
L.

i've got it running on an old celeron single core windows laptop that is about 5 years old (1.6 mhz, and less than 1gb ram) a crackle every now and then in economy mode with a latency that is good enough for live jamming ,so it might be something else is the prob for you, your machine sounds a lot more powerful than mine.

[shanecgriffo]

Originally Posted by Austmann

just opened my mail and AT3 is ready for download,yay!!
one question id like to ask is how big in gb is AT3??
i only have wireless internet so if its not to much then it would be ok,as i downloaded also miroslav arround 7 gigs if i remember, if its over 10 then i might go and download it from a friends house.

you probably found out already ..its around 200mb so no need to rush to your friends!

[Austmann]

Originally Posted by shanecgriffo

you probably found out already ..its around 200mb so no need to rush to your friends!

cool thanks

[Jantex]

Have to admit, I expected more. I never really liked the flubby low end on any Amplitube product ant this thing continues with AT3. Marshalls sound very unreal with plastic gain and without any aggression. Plexi and JTM drown in flubby loose low end, even when I set the bass to minimum. I cannot get punchy strat sound out of it. I must admit, I stil like Revalver III much much more, it behaves more like a tube amp IMHO.

[digital 1010]

Originally Posted by Jantex

Have to admit, I expected more. I never really liked the flubby low end on any Amplitube product ant this thing continues with AT3. Marshalls sound very unreal with plastic gain and without any aggression. Plexi and JTM drown in flubby loose low end, even when I set the bass to minimum. I cannot get punchy strat sound out of it. I must admit, I stil like Revalver III much much more, it behaves more like a tube amp IMHO.

Exactly what i thought till i started having a good old delve in there and a good fiddle. I own a hotrod deluxe amp but its far too loud for my small studio and have been thinking for ages what to do but nothing really did it for me so have kept it and abused my ears or not cranked the amp as far as it should go but AMPT 3 might be the reason i sell the amp.

I've got it sounding flabby and tinny but then after a bit of a dig changing mic placement adding removing pedals etc its gone punchy and everything inbetween and sounds really good. It is really versatile if you ask me, need to give it a good old thrashing over the next 10 days and then make a choice.

Means i can put the money towards a DSI MEK too!!