Overloud TH1

Overloud has released version 1.1 of TH1, a custom guitar effect suite for Windows and Mac.

Changes in TH1 v1.1

  • New Features
    • Two amplifiers: Overloud Custom and BassFace ’59 (US) amps – 4 new channels and 10 operating modes.
    • Amplifier adds a VariFire panel and control: a Gain-Character control for expanded distortion color control.
    • Three Rack Delay Effects: Comb Delay, Spatial Delay, Pattern Delay.
    • Mixer Pro with control on Phase, Stereo Width, Sample Delay and Mono/Stereo output switch.
    • Splitter with Balance/Switch capabilities and with two Crossover modes (HPF/LPF and BPF/BRF) and frequency/width controls.
    • Dual IR Cabinet module allows users to load commercial or their own cabinet Impulse Responses with balance, phase and micro-delay control with HPF and LPF.
    • Dual IR Cabinet comes preloaded with Recabinet Demo (Recabinet – Album quality guitar tone, direct) and the Experimental Cabinet collection from Wild Hades (Alu).
    • Eight new Stomp Boxes: Noise Gate / Expander, Mild Flanger, Rich Flanger, Analog Flanger, D-Reverb, D-Delay, 7-Band Graphic EQ and 5-Band Amp EQ.
    • Host, Internal and Variation-based BPM for maximum flexibility when it comes to BPM syncing.
  • Ease Of Use
    • Module Presets.
    • UI: Auto-hiding Overview panel simplifies the use of TH1 on smaller monitors.
    • UI Background Skinning: drag&drop or select via preferences window of factory and user-picked backgrounds in Png and Jpg formats.
    • Copy and paste of modules between Variations and different instances of TH1.
    • Localized numeric value display when moving module parameters.
    • Computer keyboard value-entry.
    • Bank import and export functions.
    • New Browser implementation with right-click functions for copy, paste and clear of Banks, Sounds and Variations.
  • Control
    • Smart MIDI Control: assign Smart Controls to any MIDI CC, Note On or Program Change with Auto-Learn Function.
    • Remote Preset MIDI Control: other than the default Program and Bank message control, TH1 can be programmed (also via Auto-Learn) to respond to MIDI CC, Note On and Program Changes for operations like Bank up/down, Sound up/down, Variation up/down.
    • Direct Variation access MIDI Control: assign any MIDI CC, Note On or Program Change to direct access of each Variation (single preset sound in TH1) in the currently active Sound (a collection of 8 Variations).
    • Global MIDI Control: assign any MIDI CC, Note On or Program Change to the first Volume Pedal and Wah, Internal BPM Tap Tempo, Tuner status, Output Mute and Output Volume.
    • MIDI: saving of MIDI configurations.
    • Smart: copy, swap, remove Smart Controls via drag&drop actions.
    • Smart: button to swap Min and Max values.
    • Smart: new Smart types, Touch, Stepper Up, Stepper Down, Stepper Up/Down with up to four different user definable settings to step through.
  • Fixes
    • Better Noise Gate implementation in Master Section.
    • You can use left and right arrow keys in the Browser panel to scroll through Variations.
    • Dedicated button to open the Smart Connections window.
    • Fixes for Digidesign Pro Tools 8 and Cakewalk Sonar 8 64-bit.
    • Various automation fixes.
    • Master parameters get saved with song/session and when quitting the standalone version.
    • Many more smaller fixes.

TH1 is available for Windows and Mac for 249 EUR (worldwide) / $349 USD (USA and Canada). The version 1.1 update is free for registered users. A 14-day full-featured demo is available for download.

From March 6 to April 6, a purchase of TH1 at the Overloud online shop will get you a free copy of Recabinet TH1 Edition ($39 USD value).

Visit Overloud for more information and audio demos.