What’s new in AmpliTube 3.5

AmpliTube makes a giant leap forward with the new Custom Shop to once again revolutionize the way you create your tone. AmpliTube 3.5 also adds some powerful new features for enhanced preset management and the best integration ever with remote controllers like IK Multimedia’s own StompIO and StealthBoard. Plus native compatibility with 64-bit DAWs on MacOS and Windows.

1. Custom Shop: Your New Tone Shop Plug-in
2. Try and buy gear models à la carte 24/7 online
3. New gear models and collections
4. Single gear models cost as low as $3 per model with the new Gear Credits system
5. New advanced preset and patch management with expanded browser
6. Enhanced foot controller integration with StompIO and StealthPedal
7. Improved MIDI controls
8. Native compatibility with 64-bit DAWs on Mac OS and Windows
9. Free update for AmpliTube 3 users

 

1. Custom Shop: Your New Tone Shop Plug-in
Imagine walking into the most comprehensive store of guitar and bass gear ever made to design the dream rig you have always wanted. Now you can pick and choose stomp boxes, amp heads, speaker cabinets, microphones, rack effects and rare vintage equipment from the hundreds of models available in the online IK Multimedia Custom Shop. This à la carte method of building your rig gives you extreme flexibility in customizing your tone by letting you select exactly the gear you need.

2. Try and buy gear models à la carte 24/7 online
Now you can try the gear before you buy it, and you can purchase models à la carte to create your own customized tone powerhouse. With an active Internet connection, simply click the Custom Shop button and login to see the online Custom Shop home page. There you can browse the vast collection of over 200 gear models including the officially certified models of world-class branded gear from Fender, Orange, Ampeg, Soldano, Gallien-Krueger, Groove Tubes, T-Rex and many more.

3. New gear models and collections
We have added many new models for à la carte purchase in the Custom Shop along with all of the models from the AmpliTube Fender™ and Ampeg® SVX Collections. You can purchase the AmpliTube Fender™ and Ampeg® SVX models either as individual à la carte items or as “Collections” inside the Custom Shop.

4. Single gear models cost as low as $3 per model with the new Gear Credits system
Gear models in the Custom Shop are sold using Gear Credits and are priced between 5 and 20 credits each. Credits can be purchased from $1.00 / €0.75 to $0.60 / €0.45 per credit depending on Credit Pack purchased. Gear Credit Packs start as low as $19.99 / €14.99 (for 20 credits) and go up to $299.99 / €224.99 (for 500 credits). Once Gear Credits are loaded into your account, just click the BUY button of the gear model you want to unlock permanently and make it immediately available in AmpliTube 3. You can both TRY and/or BUY multiple models without leaving the Custom Shop, and all the models will then appear as trial or unlocked when you return to AmpliTube 3.

5. New advanced preset and patch management with expanded browser
AmpliTube now contains 4,000 patch locations where you can store presets along with their associated controller information. The preset inside a patch becomes a unique object that can be edited and saved as patch with all of its model parameters separately from the original preset from which it was derived. This also allows you to organize groups of similar presets (such as “Blues”) into ranges of patches for convenient recall.

6. Enhanced foot controller integration with StompIO and StealthPedal
The programming of your foot controller for live performance use has never been easier. Now your programming can also be done from within the AmpliTube plug-in and automatically mirrored on the controller for a very fast and convenient way of organizing your uniquely tweaked collection of presets.

7. Improved MIDI controls
You can assign MIDI Program Change numbers to different Patches to create a convenient sequence for live performance without rewriting your patches. You can also assign several MIDI Program Change numbers to the same patch. This way if you have other MIDI gear in your rig, you don't have to save multiple copies of the same patch if the same sound is used in AmpliTube but the other MIDI devices need a different patch. You also assign hardware controller -- knobs, switchs, pedals -- to MIDI continuous controllers and even set a minimum and maximum range for each to customize each controller's behavior.

8. Native compatibility with 64-bit DAWs on MacOS and Windows
AmpliTube now has native support for 64-bit applications and operating systems.

9. Free update for AmpliTube 3 users
Registered users of AmpliTube 3 can download the free 3.5 update from their User Area to get the Custom Shop and all the other new features and enhancements of this latest version.

 

What’s new in AmpliTube 3

1. Now includes over 160 models of vintage and modern gear
2. 30 new vintage gear models and creative effects
3. New cabinet/room module with freely movable mics
4. Incredible new rotary speaker simulation with VRM™
5. New Stomp & Rack FX “drag & drop” configuration
6. Now includes both mono and full stereo signal paths
7. New advanced preset organization and management
8. New “MIDI learn” feature for compatibility with any controller
9. New 4 track audio recorder/player
10. New “eco-mid-hi” quality modes
11. Improved overall performance

 

1. Now includes over 160 models of vintage and modern gear
Packing in more than ever before, AmpliTube 3 has nearly 100 more gear models than its predecessor AmpliTube 2, all accurately modeled down to the finest detail with renown IK craftsmanship and third generation DSM™ technology. Not only did we add tons of new amps and effects, but all of the legacy models of AmpliTube 2 have been reworked providing greater efficiency and even more dynamic response for that “real amp” touch and feel. AmpliTube 3 offers the widest palette of effects, amps, cabinets and microphones of any guitar amp and effects product on the market. Together with the inclusion of nearly 70 top amp and effects models from AmpliTube Metal and AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, plus over 30 all new premium gear models AmpliTube 3 is the most powerful and complete anthology of guitar and bass gear ever.

2. 30 all new vintage gear models – 5 creative effects
Over 30 brand new previously unreleased models are now included in AmpliTube 3. Together with a collector’s selection of some of the all time finest amps and cabinets (including accurate replica models based on vintage Vox®, Orange®, Mesa®, Roland®, Trace Elliot®, Acoustic®, Gallien Kruger® and more) along with must-have new analog modeled stomp boxes (models based on Electro-Harmonix®, Marshall®, Ibanez®) a series of new, “creative” effects has been added! AmpliTube 3 also includes innovative effects not found in other modeling packages such as: StepFilter, StepSLicer, TapDelay, Rezo and Swell in both stomp and rack versions. These inspirational effects can open a whole new sonic panorama to your performance and push forward the creativity of what you can do with your guitar, bass or any other instrument both live and in the studio.

3. New cabinet/room module with freely movable microphones
The cabinet module of AmpliTube 3 has been entirely redone. Sporting a redesigned GUI, not only now you can mic and mix each cabinet with 2 microphones, but the microphones also can be freely moved around the speaker making it easier to find that magical sweet spot. Cabinet “size” can now be also controlled so you can enlarge and shrink your cabinet behind the limits of the physical world. Additionally now you can adjust the room ambience and room mic positioning for an ultra-accurate modeling of the cabinet in the natural recording space.

4. Incredible new rotary speaker simulation with VRM™
The new AmpliTube 3 speaker cabinet module contains one of the best sounding models of a rotary speaker ever, thanks to our exclusive VRM™ technology (Volumetric Response Modeling). Never before has a software rotary speaker sounded so much like the original. Based on a pristine model of a vintage Leslie® 147, the cabinet features both new and vintage original matching speakers, and is able to give to your sound that timeless magic characteristic of this must have gear.

5. New Stomp & Rack FX “drag & drop” configuration
A feature largely requested by AmpliTube users, now you can reconfigure your pedal board and rack effects chain simply by dragging & dropping the effect into its new position. Setting up your effects has never been easier, and this feature makes sonic experimentation fast and easy.

6. Now includes both mono and full stereo signal paths
Now you can add AmpliTube 3 effects to your stereo recording of drums, vocals, keyboards and more! We have implemented a new full stereo-chain signal path that allows to use AmpliTube 3 as a multi-effects unit on every instrument in your DAW session. Plus you can now use AmpliTube 3 on two instruments simultaneously, each one with their own rig.

7. New advanced preset management
AmpliTube 3 sports a new preset browser that allows you to quickly search and organize the huge number of presets that are included in the package, plus the thousand of presets built by a growing community of users through the online Preset X-Change sharing services. Presets can now be saved and recalled using a series of user-defined keywords and attributes, plus a new “copy & paste” feature allows to quickly re-position your amp or effects retaining all existing settings and tweaks. Additionally presets now can be saved for a single model simply by right clicking on it.

8. New MIDI learn for compatibility with any controller
AmpliTube 3 makes it easier than ever to control it using any existing MIDI gear. Simply click on the control knob/parameter of any of the gear and the new MIDI learn function will allow to immediately set the selected control to respond to the corresponding MIDI control function of your gear. And of course no set-up is needed when it is used with IK’s new StealthBoard, StealthPedal and StompIO controllers and interfaces.

9. New 4 track audio recorder/player
In Standalone mode the new SpeedTrainer module offers the possibility to play or record up to 4 track, with independent pitch-shift/time-stretch. Now you can record your band all within AmpliTube 3, use it to learn difficult licks, or to quickly capture and layer your musical ideas at the moment of inspiration.

10. New eco-mid-hi quality mode
To help managing the best balance between sound quality and CPU usage, we have designed 3 new modes (eco-mid-hi) that are accessed with a simple click. These allow to get the minimal possible CPU, a good sounding medium set up and the best possible sound quality accessible via the main interface.

11. Improved overall performance
In AmpliTube 3 we also have greatly enhanced the CPU usage efficiency of all new models and “remastered” the legacy models in order to be more efficient and take advantage of our latest technologies. The result is better sounding ultra-accurate gear models with more available computational resources for other tasks.

AmpliTube 3. The New King of Tone.