by stateofepicicity » Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:47 pm
I think the biggest help for productivity in Amplitube would be the ability to slow knobs, e.g. to press control + left-click to slow the pace at which the treble knob on an amp moves. I find it really difficult to get precise values, and I often overshoot in one direction or the other; to say it another way, I find it difficult to change tones subtly in Amplitube. My current workaround is actually to select a knob and type in incremental values until I get the tone I want.
Another great help for workflow would be the ability to freeze a speaker or a set of speakers, so that, as you scroll through cabinets, the speakers do not change, basically to make speakers act like mics at will. You could include a Speaker Match button to return to it's current behavior.
Hugely helpful for workflow would be the ability both to rename a preset (without simply having to save it as a copy of an existing preset), and to be able to reorder presets on your list. As you know, Amplitube defaults always to alphabetical sorting of presets, but that is rarely helpful for auditioning tones. My current workaround is to number tones I'm auditioning to find the best one, and if I want to delete many presets at once, I close Amplitube, go into my Windows Explorer folder, delete the presets there, then reopen Amplitube. The ability for Amplitube to read the preset file folder in realtime for deletions of this kind would be great helpful too. Or simply, alternatively, to give Amplitube the ability to delete many presets at once.
More along purely utilitarian lines, adding Undo / Redo would be so helpful. There are times where you hit a sweet spot, try to make it even better, then make it worse, but can't quite get back to that sweet spot. A workaround is to create a preset every time you reach a sweet spot, but you can create way too many presets to be helpful that way. I think someone else may have mentioned this too, but A / B ing the current alterations to your current preset in it's saved state would be hugely helpful.
Lastly, Amplitube uses its own combination of IRs and modeling for its cab section, but sometimes the modeling aspect is just too much for bottom heavy tones, and it would be wonderful to be able to disengage the modeling part to control the bass, stripping the cab section to the moveable IR itself. For an extreme example, you can take a Metal Lead V with matching cabinet, and if you create a balanced, bottom heavy tone and palm mute between the open and third frets of the A string, the bass will jump to an unbelievable amount, far more than on the low E string, ruining the balance and the behavior of the tone. IRs don't act this way on their own, so I'm lead to assume this is the behavior of the cab modeling, adding almost the behavior of a room without bass traps, taking what otherwise would be a much flatter bass response and making it weirdly and uncontrollably uneven on many of the included 4 x 12 cabinets. I've found this to be a problem with really bass heavy tones, but it's a big problem if that's what you mainly wanted to use. A current workaround is simply to use OD pedals to shift the frequency spectrum of the guitar first, but that also fundamental alters the tone's character, of course, so it's a compromise in the character of the tone. You could also use a high pass filter. I've found that the best way to get past this is to create two instances of Amplitube in series, disengage the cab section of the first instance, and disengage everything before the cab section in the second instance. That is a terrible workaround for preset management, though!
It could be that this cab modeling was done in a less than ideal room, without bass traps, and it got hardwired into the modeling that certain low frequencies would cause an, e.g. 8 dB jump in the output of the signal, making it very hard to control.
Thanks for creating this thread!
1 - To be able to save the 12" speaker user designed cabinets in either a user bank or integrated in to the cabinet list to be loaded into a preset. U could then adjust the Room, Mic's/Placement etc as with any other cabinet to suit.
