And it looks like their new amp models are missing important features, like the excursion, structure, and plexi switches on the Bogner Ecstasy model. That's basically what Amplitube is doing here. Imagine the Helix launching, but with only five new amps and the rest being pulled from older products going back to the Pod xt.

If anything, that's worse than Amplitube 4, where it was obvious that they were a legacy feature. I still use some 'vintage' plugins like LePou, but those run rings around all but the most recent IK models.Īnyway, rather than remove or update the legacy models, IK just slapped a new GUI on them. They didn't sound or feel all that great in 2006 and they don't sound or feel any better today. A lot of the models are ten to fifteen years old. The new cab section and new models look nice, and I appreciate the more advanced routing options, but overall this looks like a mostly cosmetic upgrade. The ML Sound Labs MIKKO plugin abstracts this process better. It just makes a software paradigm for moving mics around rather than reinvents it so the user is working with sound rather than having to know the ins and outs of studio micing. Which is smart.Īt the same time I am not fully sold on the cab UI. They talk a big game about having a massive pile of IRs but it seems that what it really does in software is that they have picked a good number of positions and then blend between them to avoid having the user download massive data sets. It seems to follow similar paths taken by NeuralDSP and ML Sound Labs but cool to see how their process was done. To me the only impressive thing here is the cab section. The UI is fancy but I have to question whether the skeumorphic design adds anything other than taking a lot of space on screen. The sales pitch seems to continue with this one. I have always felt that Amplitube does not perform as well as many other plugins on the market and that it was setup as a platform to sell you more crap as DLCs.

Guitar rig 5 pro vs amplitube 4