In an astounding Black Friday guitar deal, IK Multimedia has made its two biggest platforms more affordable than ever, with a fantastic $500 discount on the premium iterations of both Tonex and AmpliTube 5. IK Multimedia’s audio software tools are the platonic ideal for the exploratory musician. The software encourages experimentation – and produces absurdly high-quality results as your reward.
If you’ve spent any time messing around with amp emulation plugins in your DAW, you’ll have discovered just how impressive amp modeling is nowadays. Giants of the field, like Kemper and Fractal Audio, loom large over professional session musician pedalboards; for guitarists and producers big and small, software solutions like IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube and Tonex are at once arresting and affordable.
If you’ve not immersed yourself fully in the potential of digital modelers, IK Multimedia has thrown you a Black Friday bone like no other; you can pick up two world-class guitar-gear emulation systems for three times less than the price of one. If that's not enough to convince you, just remember AmpliTube is as popular with Slash as it is with the average guitarist recording at home.
While having two separate options for amp emulation might seem like overkill, AmpliTube and Tonex overlap one another in some hugely useful ways. Tonex is the newer of the two, and we praised it in our Tonex software review for its use of machine learning to reverse-engineer recordings of existing amps or guitar set-ups, in order to create damn-near perfect “Tone Model” algorithms of the same equipment.
A comprehensive digital guitar-rig modeler that uses meticulously coded sims of quintessential amps and pedals, we gave a full 5 stars out of five in our Amplitube 5 review. AmpliTube 5 Max v2 is the juiced version, which gives you the keys to thousands of factory and user presets – including a heady number of world-famous amps. Tonex Max is itself juiced, with thousands more Tone Models to choose from (as well as the option to immortalize your own rig into a Tone Model).
With both apps at your disposal, you can achieve practically everything guitar ‘in the box’ – apart from actually playing the thing. With a little extra investment in a Tonex pedal, you can even take your precious Tone Models out to shows with you! This Black Friday bundle is more than an opportunity to grab at multitudes of new guitar patches to play through; it’s an opportunity to get serious about sculpting your tone for the studio and live performance, without spending thousands on vintage amps in the process.
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“I’m blown away by TONEX and all of the things that this set of sounds has”: IK Multimedia teams up with Alex Lifeson for software suite collecting AI-generated models of four of his favourite tube amps
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