Storage, backup, and talking to PCs and the Outside WorldĪnother mini 1. What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs? And unique to Chrome Tone are sophisticated envelope followers and LFOs which, as we'll see, take familiar guitar effects into new territory. Like Amplitube, they don't just model amp/speaker combos, but include delay-based effects, wah-wah and compression for greater flexibility. Black Rooster Audios guitar amp head emulation meticulously modeled after a very versatile, yet uniquely sounding low wattage amplifier the Black. Like Amp Farm, the plug-ins in McDSP's Chrome Tone suite run on Mix, HD or Accel DSP chips, with the benefits of negligible latency and zero load on the host CPU (though RTAS versions should also be available by the time you read this). As a consequence, it tends to suffer from more latency than Amp Farm, and imposes a load on the host CPU rather than running on Digidesign's DSP cards.Īnd so we come to the subject of this review. The main disadvantage for Pro Tools TDM and HD/Accel users is that Amplitube is available only as an RTAS or HTDM plug-in. It supports all the sequencers in common use, it offers excellent stomp-box effect emulations as well as its amp simulation, and most importantly, sounds great. To my mind, however, the bar is currently set by IK Multimedia's Amplitube. Sonar is bundled with its own amp simulator, Izotope's Trash is a tempting PC Direct X offering, and Logic users can look forward to the forthcoming Guitar Amp. Users of other DSP systems have the reputedly excellent Nigel (for Universal Audio's UAD1) and the hotly awaited TC Thirty (for Powercore), while those with VST-compatible sequencers can enjoy the likes of Steinberg's Warp VST. Quote Line 6 had this market pretty much to themselves for several years, but now there's competition. VocInput - Pitch tracking oscillator for generating vocoder carrier input Vocoder - Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder Tracker - Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ Thru-Zero Flanger - Classic tape-flanging simulation TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, impulses and sweeps

Sub-Bass Synthesizer - Several low frequency enhancement methods Stereo Simulator - Haas delay and comb filtering

Splitter - Frequency / level crossover for setting up dynamic processing Shepard - Continuously rising/falling tone generator RezFilter - Resonant filter with LFO and envelope follower Multiband - Multi-band compressor with M-S processing modes Loudness - Equal loudness contours for bass EQ and mix correction Image - Stereo image adjustment and M-S matrix De-ess - High frequency dynamics processorĭelay - Simple stereo delay with feedback tone controlĭetune - Simple up/down pitch shifting thickenerĭither - Range of dither types including noise shapingĭubDelay - Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation

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