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IK Multimedia is now shipping AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software for Windows and Mac.

There’s a new king in tone, and its name is AmpliTube 3. A massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear modeling software, AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power. If your recording or playing “rig” is lacking in that rich, lush expressive analog warmth, then you need to check it out. With over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package, AmpliTube 3 is the ultimate tone gear collection for the player/producer/engineer suffering from tone angst.

New in AmpliTube 3

• Now includes over 160 models of vintage and modern gear
• 30 new vintage gear models and creative effects and 70 “re-mastered” gear models from AmpliTube Metal and AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™
• 51 Stompbox effects, 31 Amps, 46 Cabinets, 15 Studio Mics and 17 Rack effects
• New cabinet/room module with double freely movable mics
• Incredible new rotary speaker simulation with VRM™
• New Stomp & Rack FX “drag & drop” configuration
• Now includes both mono and full stereo signal paths
• New advanced preset organization and management
• New “MIDI learn” feature for compatibility with any controller
• New 4 track audio recorder/player with SpeedTrainer in standalone
• New “eco-mid-hi” quality modes
• Improved overall performance
• New built-in expandability

AmpliTube 3 is now available to purchase for PC and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS):

• AmpliTube 3 $349.99/269.99 EUR.
• AmpliTube 3 Crossgrade (available to any IK registered user) $269.99/199.99 EUR.
• AmpliTube 3 Upgrade (available to all previous AmpliTube 2, AmpliTube Metal, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, AmpliTube Fender™ or Ampeg® SVX™ registered users) $199.99/149.99 EUR.
• AmpliTube 3 Pedal (bundled with StealthPedal USB/MIDI controller and audio interface) $399.99/299.99 EUR.

More information: IK Multimedia / AmpliTube 3

Ueberschall has announced the release of Urbanic Guitars, a new Elastik soundbank featuring guitar loops.

Urbanic Guitars is a modern dynamic guitar sample collection made with premium gear, experienced talent and high-end signal path; developed for a multitude of professional applications. Ueberschall provides an abundance of full impact guitar phrases and organizational options to fit with your approach to the implementation of guitar content.

Urbanic Guitars features

• 125 themes and 780 loops of smashing guitar melodies, hooks, riffs, and licks.
• Themes are divided into three folders of loop packs:
  • Acoustic
  • E-guitar 1 (Gibson ES style)
  • E-guitar 2 (Fender Strat style)

  Within these three folders, are a wide spectrum of contemporary playing techniques which revolve around the axis of urban.

• Labeled key signature and tempo information make it as easy as possible to find a groove that will match your tracking needs and goals.
• The 1.77 GB content ranges in tempo from 60 to 130 BPM.
• Elastik Player offers a lot of DSP functions to adjust the phrases to further fit your productions / creations.
• Guitars are a performed by Kai Reuter.

Urbanic Guitars is available as an Elastik Soundbank for PC and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone), priced at 99 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / Urbanic Guitars

Loopmasters has released The Producers Collection, a collection of 6 Multi-Sampled Instruments in Kontakt 3 and Ableton Live formats.

Producer Bundle is a one-stop resource for Puremagnetik’s sophisticated collection of acoustic and electric instruments.

The Producers Collection features

• Purple Kit – Purple Kit was hand-built to specifications designed by Puremagnetik emphasizing funk and hip hop drum sounds. Using the finest quality Keller® Maple drum shells, Purple Kit was constructed to be a unique drumset unlike any other currently available.
• PM Mark One – Fender Rhodes™ electronic piano. This Micropak includes a 73 key multisampled Rhodes and over 60 audio loops played by professional jazz, funk and R&B keyboardists.
• Technosphere – A sound design toolbox of over 100 soundscapes, transition effects and ambiances. Searching for the sound of lizards thinking or Martian zenox explosions? Look no further!
• Guitar Rack Volume 1 – Guitar Rack is a unique soundset of guitar based instruments, riffs and amplifier effects as recorded from a Stratocaster. Included in this release are also plenty of ready-to-go Ableton Live Clips complete with effects and Macro programming. With over 20 new amp and effects modules to choose from, users can customize their guitar tone extensively. Guitar Rack for Kontakt includes a huge assortment of looped .nki files and chord menus. The Kontakt version also includes a custom KSP user interface panel for tweaking the most common parameters like tube drive and tone.
• Guitar Rack Volume 2 – Acoustic guitar instruments and loops. Puremagnetik has taken the Guitar Rack series to the next level! Guitar Rack Volume 2 – Acoustic Edition contains an assortment of immaculately captured acoustic guitar chord menus, articulations and looped phrases. Customized for Ableton Live 7/8 and Kontakt 3 Guitar Rack Volume 2 is immediately playable out of the box. Both Ableton Live and Kontakt versions contain extensively programmed integrated effects and dynamic controls for easy editing and tone sculpting.
• PM-200 – Wurlitzer electronic piano multisample instrument. The Ableton Live Pack version includes the complete PM-200 multisampled instrument, fully Macro mapped with modulations and multiple effect options. The included loop library is automatically imported into Ableton’s library as Live Clips for easy access and file management. The Kontakt version of PM-200 includes a customized skin and KSP scripting for easy tweaking. Both full and “light” versions of the PM-200 are included. Special .nki format audio loops can seamlessly be loaded up in Kontakt for instant session tempo sync – no need to timestretch or compress.

The Producer Bundle is 2GB in size and is available in Ableton Live 7/8 and Kontakt 3 formats, priced at £39.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / The Producers Collection

Vir2 Instruments has announced Electri6ity, an epic electric guitar virtual instrument containing the most advanced, detailed, and versatile collection of electric guitars ever made in a virtual instrument.

Electri6ity contains eight of the most famous and distinguished guitar tones from the history of the instrument: the Strat, Tele, P90, Les Paul, Rickenbacker, Danelectro Lipstick, ES335, and L4. More than 24,000 24-bit samples were taken of each guitar. Three pickup options (front, rear, and mixed) are available on every guitar. An impressive amount of samples allow you to play every articulation on every fret of every string for an absolutely authentic guitar sound. Downstrokes, upstrokes, seamless velocity layers, ghost notes, mutes, flageoletts, hammer-ons, pulloffs, slides, releases, and FX…the sky is the limit with Electri6ity.

Electri6ity features

• Electri6ity includes eight guitars: Strat, Tele, P90, Les Paul, Rickenbacker, Danelectro Lipstick, ES335, L4.
• Three pickup positions: Front, Rear, Front + Rear Blend.
• Recorded variations per sample: Downstroke/upstroke, Picked/strummed, Seamless velocity layers.
• Playing modes: Polyphonic, Monophonic, Legato (Sustain/Muted), All modes can be combined with a Slide Mode for real-time slides from each fret to each other fret.
• Articulation list: Sustain Neck <> Bridge, Sustain <> 5th / Octave Pinch Harmonics, Dead Notes <> Muted <> Half-Muted, Ghost Notes Clean, Ghost Notes Dirty, Chucka-Chuckas, Flageoletts, Hammer On (played after sustain note) / Hammer On (tapped), Pull Off (played after sustain note) / Pull Off (tapped), One and two frets Slides Up / Down, Slides (Slide in and from each fret to each other fret), FX Samples (Screams, Scratches, Whammy-FX, etc.)
• Release types: Finger Noise, Finger Noise Short, Mixed I, Mixed II, Hand Mute (fret can be selected), Palm Mute, Slide Down Short, Slide Down Medium, Slide Down Long, Slide Down (1 fret, short), Slide Up (1 fret, short), Slide Noise Down, Slide Noise Up, Pick Noise.

Integrated engines:

• A.M.T (Articulation Morphing Technology) & V.M.T (Velocity Morphing Technology) allows you to seamlessly morph from soft to loud notes, from dead muted to sustain, and even from sustain to fifth or octave pinch harmonics! The morphing is phase-aligned without any phasing artifacts.
• Advanced string and fretboard positioning – the AI chooses the best fitting strings and fretboard position for you. It takes speed, timing, notes and polyphony into account. Manual overwrite is possible whenever you need it (by manually choosing a string or a position on the fretboard).
• Advanced guitar noise engine – adds pick, finger and slide noises according to your playing.
• Advanced legato engine – fluid legato lines in real time.
• Advanced vibrato engine.
• Advanced humanization – nothing is random, everything is artificial intelligence.
• Advanced guitar chord detection – almost 2000 chords are detected and transferred into guitar chords in real time. Most guitar chords are available in up to three different voicings..
• Inversions and chords with additional root key are detected.
• Easy Double-Tracking – without increasing the memory footprint.
• Auto Unison-Bends.
• Dynamic sympathetic resonance simulation.
• Performance keys for strumming and picking – powerful yet easy to use.
• Performance keys for trills, tremolo picking, one and two fret slides (it’s possible to slide whole chords as well).
• Full control over the engine, tweak and control the playback with more than 100 parameters!

Electri6ity is available to pre-order for PC and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone) for $399.95 USD. It will be shipping in Spring 2010.

More information: Vir2 Instruments / Electri6ity

IK Multimedia has announced AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software.

AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power – with over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package – it is the ultimate tone gear collection for players, producers and engineers.

Changes in AmpliTube 3

• Over 160 gear models included (with nearly 100 added models), more than double the amount of other packages, from the most sought-after vintage collections to modern day workhorses.
• 51 Stompbox effects, 31 Amps, 46 Cabinets, 15 Studio Mics and 17 Rack effects.
• 30 brand new models for the most complete anthology of gear, ever.
• 70 re-worked and superior sounding models from packages like AmpliTube Metal™ and AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™.
• A new collection of bass gear models makes it also the most complete package for any bass recording or performance needs’ musician or engineer.
• Can be directly expanded with packages like AmpliTube Fender™, Ampeg® SVX™ and future packages.
• New preset management and keyword system allows you to organize and quickly recall the massive library of included and custom preset tones.
• New cabinet module inside now provides double miking per cabinet, with freely movable microphones thanks to IK’s VRM™ (Volumetric Response Modeling) technology, giving you a level of control and sound accuracy never before experienced in software.
• New impulse-based reverbs are now used in the entire chain, from spring reverb to room ambience, which ensures the most realistic possible representation of your recording environment.
• New rotary speaker module sets the new standard for accurate emulation of these types of cabinets – until now, there had never been such a great sounding rotary cabinet in software.
• All models in AmpliTube 3 have been ultra-accurately “remastered” with our new 3rd generation modeling technology (the same found in AmpliTube Fender™), using IK’s exclusive DSM™ technology (Dynamic Saturation Modeling), then painstakingly “A/B” compared with the originals to ensure that the sound you hear from the software is the same sound you hear from the gear.
• New creative Effects featuring the new StepFilter, StepSLicer, TapDelay, Rezo and Swell stomp and rack effects that allow you to sculpt your sound and create inspiring rhythmic patterns or amazing drone and pad-like effects.
• New full-stereo path allows you to use the huge collection of analog and digital effects on your vocal tracks, keyboards and drums.
• New Drag & Drop function in the stomp and rack modules now makes experimenting with effects’ combinations a breeze.
• New “MIDI Learn” feature allows you to assign any software control or parameter to an external controller with a simple click on the parameter’s knob.
• New, integrated 4-track recorder/player allows you to capture and layer your ideas quickly and easily right at the moment of inspiration.

AmpliTube 3 will ship within February 2010 as VST, RTAS and Audio Unit plug-in formats and as standalone software for Mac and Windows, and will be available in the following versions and MSRP prices (excl. VAT):

• AmpliTube 3 $349.99/€269.99
• AmpliTube 3 Crossgrade $269.99/€199.99 (available to any IK registered users)
• AmpliTube 3 Upgrade $199.99/€149.99 (available to all previous AmpliTube 2, AmpliTube Metal, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, AmpliTube Fender™ or Ampeg® SVX™ registered users)

Additionally, AmpliTube 3 will also be available as a complete software + hardware solution for playing and recording in a bundle with the StealthPedal for $399.99/€299.99

Preorders are already available in the IK Online Store and in IK Multimedia’s network of selected dealers and distributors worldwide.

More information: IK Multimedia / AmpliTube 3

Digidesign has announced the Eleven Rack, a standalone hardware unit that combines a hyper-realistic guitar amp and effects processor with a high-quality computer recording audio interface, to create the ultimate recording and performance solution for guitar players.

The wait is over. We’re proud to introduce Eleven Rack™ — a revolutionary new guitar recording and effects processing solution designed to eliminate the challenges that guitarists have faced in the studio and on stage.

Experience the most sought-after guitar amp tones in the world — complete with all the sonic details that make playing through real amps feel like playing through real amps. Record guitar without audible latency using the included studio-standard Pro Tools® 8 software — now optimized for guitar players. Enjoy ultra-realistic convolution-based mic’d cabinet emulations, with mic placement courtesy of guitar recording expert John Cuniberti. Easily re-amplify tones without re-patching a single cable. Use it as a standalone effects processor and incorporate legendary amp and effects tones into your live rig. All of this and more is now available in a single solution, designed just for guitar players.

Eleven Rack features

• Eleven Rack Hardware
  • Unique True-Z auto-impedance matching guitar input.
  • Incredible emulations of classic guitar amp tones inspired by Fender®, Vox®, Marshall®, Soldano, and Mesa/Boogie® amps.
  • Refined collection of sought-after classic stompbox tones inspired by effects from MXR®, Electro-Harmonix®, Ibanez®, ProCo, Univox®, and more.
  • Powerful collection of studio-quality rackmount effects processors.
  • Convolution-based cabinet emulations deliver unprecedented realism in cabinet tones.
  • Convolution-based microphone emulations inspired by classic dynamic, condenser, and ribbon mic designs.
  • Integrated FX loop switchable to incorporate existing mono or stereo rack and stompbox effects.
  • Controllable via MIDI controllers and expression pedals.
  • Built-in tuner.
  • Tap-tempo control of time-based effects.
  • High-speed USB 2.0 connection.
  • Supports up to 8 simultaneous channels of high-resolution recording up to 24-bit/96 kHz.
  • Stereo balanced XLR outputs and dedicated 1/4” outputs.
  • XLR mic input with 48V phantom power and pad switch.
  • 2 x 1/4” line-level inputs.
  • AES/EBU and S/PDIF digital I/O.
  • Stereo 1/4” headphone jack.
  • 1 x 1 MIDI I/O.
• Pro Tools LE Software
  • Award-winning Pro Tools LE 8 recording, editing, and mixing software — now optimized for guitar players.
  • Powerful Eleven Rack control window for creating/editing Eleven Rack rig settings right from Pro Tools software.
  • Records both dry and processed signals simultaneously, with recallable rig settings embedded into audio files.
  • Includes over 70 professional effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, distortion, flanger, phaser, reverse, EQ, and compression.
  • Powerful virtual instruments for creating backing tracks, including a drum machine, tonewheel organ, piano, synthesizer, and synth/sample workstation.
• Virtual Instruments
  • Boom™ drum machine and sequencer.
  • DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation.
  • Mini Grand acoustic grand piano.
  • Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer.
  • Xpand!®2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation.
  • Structure Free sample player.
  • FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module.
• Effects, Sound-Processing, Utility Plug-ins
  • 1-Band EQ III, 4-Band EQ III, 7-Band EQ III, AIR Chorus, AIR Distortion, AIR Dynamic Delay, AIR Enhancer, AIR Ensemble, AIR Filter Gate, AIR Flanger, AIR Frequency Shifter, AIR FuzzWah, AIR KillEQ, AIR Lo-Fi, AIR MultiChorus, AIR Multi-Delay, AIR Nonlinear Reverb, AIR Phaser, AIR Reverb, AIR Spring Reverb, AIR StereoWidth, AIR Talkbox, AIR Vintage Filter , BF76 Compressor, BF Essential Clip Remover, BF Essential Correlation Meter, BF Essential Meter Bridge, BF Essential Noise Meter, Celemony Melodyne Essential, Chorus, Click, Compressor/Limiter, D-Verb, DC Offset Removal, De-Esser, Delay, DigiReWire, Dither, Duplicate, Eleven Free, Expander/Gate, Extra Long Delay II, Flanger, Gain, Invert, Lo-Fi , Long Delay II, Maxim, Medium Delay II, Multi-Tap Delay, Normalize, Ping-Pong Delay, Pitch, Pitch Shift, POWr Dither, Recti-Fi, Reverse, SansAmp, Sci-Fi, Signal Generator, Short Delay II, Slap Delay II, Time Compression Expansion, Time Shift, TL AutoPan, TL InTune, TL MasterMeter, TL Metro, Trim, Vari-Fi.

Eleven Rack will be available worldwide in September 2009 and carries a USMSRP of $1,259 USD.

More information: Digidesign / Eleven Rack