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Are there any sound demos of the new amp iap?
+1!
a collection of impulse responses but of AMPS? Tempting…
I figure if it was as easy as capturing an IR to make a good amp sim then that's all people would do. Sounds too good to be true, and probably is, IMO.
OwnHammer sells many amp IRs, I’ve never tried them though…
The UI is shaped like an amp, but it's an IR loader, right? Maybe you're supposed to put the overdrive/distortit module in front of it?
GM usually surpasses my expectations, but Nembrini is tough to beat. This might still be the best option for some guitarists who play music in churches, because iFX is easy to use, reliable, and they already own and use it.
You are absolutely correct!
I took the plunge and purchased the IFX Amp IAP. I didn’t expect much to be honest, and that got confirmed... This is nothing more but a plain cab IR loader in my opinion, and NOT a true amp simulator!
You basically get a collection of various clean amps with different speaker/cab tones, but don’t expect any drive, crunch or high gain distortion like you can get with an actual amp simulator. Even on maxed out settings there is no break up or distortion coming from ANY of the included models, not even the Marshall ones. Everything sounds just like the clean channel of every included amp. It offers a nice variety in speaker or clean amp tones though.
I am a total amp sim/modeller and IR junkie and own all the iOS amp sims and modellers and IR loaders out there (BIAS AMP/FX, Nembrini, Amplitube, Overloud TH-U, Tonestack,GE Labs, Vstomp, impulsation etc...), so I have plenty of apps as reference to compare this with. Indeed get Nembrini if you are looking for great amp tones on iOS!
This plugin is still pretty useful though and has okay sounding IRs, but expect to use this more as a cabinet simulator than an amp simulator. There is another effect in iFX Rack called Amp Sim that already does the exact same, and that doesn’t sound that much different to be honest. I can see this being more useful to run synths or electric pianos through, and maybe some clean guitar tone and phatten up the tone with this plugin, but not so much useful for rock, metal or lead guitar. You will still need other distortion pedals, amp sims or modellers to get proper overdriven tones if that is what you are after. It is deceiving how they use the graphics of an Orange amp, so you might expect some nice phat overdriven rock amp tones, but safe yourself the disappointment... you won’t find any of that that in iFX Amp.
@Skyblazer IFX rack already had an IR loader, the IMPULSation iap. This new iFX amp iap claims to be an amp IR, not a cabinet IR. More likely it’s just an amp capturing technology like Kemper or Overloud.
I was hoping for that as well, but it is not. Impulsation is a tually better and so is the other rack module called Amp Sim. For me personally iFX Amp was a bit of a let down and not worth the description of amp simulator. It is much more a cab sim imo.
An amp IR would be the same thing as a cab IR except capturing the amp and preamp eq/coloring at its current settings (but not the distortion)... an IR essentially captures frequency response over time. If you run an impulse through an amp and record the output, you've got an amp IR. It basically would give you the coloring of that amp on a clean setting. To the best of my knowledge, IRs can't capture things like distortion or non-linearities but can capture frequency response over time. So, they are good for eq and reverberation.
@Dutchee Thanks for writing such a detailed review. Very helpful. So I guess this would be useful for a large portion of their audience. But also, 99% of people would assume it's an amp sim, and people who play at churches would still expect to use the dirty Orange preset in their spare time.
@espiegel123 So the EQ before the IR is usually handled by the amp sim, but here it's handled by the IR loader module, and it's just an EQ preset placed behind the IR? So if you're playing clean anyway, then you can avoid the CPU usage of an amp sim, if that's what you're into.
Yes, this would be very useful for a lot of folks, depending on the genre of music that you play and the tone that you are after. I tried it with clean guitars and it actually sounds really beautiful and offers nice variety of warm or sparkly clean tones. So despite my initial slight disappointment and expectations, this is actually a very nice IAP and i appreciate it now for what it can do, instead of being annoyed about what it doesn’t do 😉
I was just expecting a true amp simulation which would also allow to dial in some crunch, based on the information, visuals and description that they provided. But it is a nice ‘clean amp’ simulator I guess hahah. But i at least hope these comments help other to decide if it is something for them.
I have no idea what they are actually doing but if the amp IRs are really just IRs, they are doing to the signal what a cab IR does except including the part of the signal chain that includes the rather than just the cab.
Thanks for the write-up. Very helpful.
Has anyone picked up the PhatFilter thingie yet?
Also curious about the filter
Yeah me too. I did not purchase the filter yet, but really curious to hear some audio demos.
Updated with two new effects IAP, Talkbox (3,99€) And Cloudverb (6,99€):
Has anyone tried Talk Box?
Is there any information or sound demos out there of these two new IAPs?
When I click on the “More info” buttons of these plugins inside the app it leads me to webpages that cannot be found. I have waited for days to see if any new info would show up on youtube or in google, but there is literally nothing to be found on these IAPs. Not even from the developer. Before paying $7 for Cloudverb i would at least like to find out more what is so special or different about it since IFXRACK already has so many reverbs built-in.
Loving all the guitar effects! Question regarding the delay effect: is this a Tape Delay effect? Or a digital delay? I can’t seem to find any manuals or detailed info on settings. I appreciate any help.
Hi, @Tones4Christ.
I did a Google search for "VKFX" because the following texts were written on Gospelmusicians iFX Rack description page.
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https://gospelmusicians.com/products/ifx-rack
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The following quote is from Overloud™ VKFX webpage.
https://overloud.com/products/vkfx-0/models
-Tap "Delay" on the VKFX page linked above to read the detailed explanation.
-On the above linked page, there is a link to a downloadable PDF USER MANUAL. It is the below. It includes a more detailed description of the delay module. So you might want to read it.
Note: I’m not sure if iFX Rack delay and VKFX rack/suite delay are the same thing. Because I could not find a detailed manual for the former, so I could not compare them. (⬅️ This is not a question or request)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Overloud/VKFX/VKFX+Manual.pdf
How the hell did I miss this app? Once I earn some more money during my next gig, going to purchase this and all its IAPs (the bundle and whatever else there is). I love these effects in PSP2.
Interesting, thank you for clarification @cramdog .
Somebody said here in this forum that if you have TH-U FX pack you don't need IFX because is is developed by Overloud as well. But now I'm not sure if it is 100% true for every particular effect. I don't like TH-U Tape Delay at all and would like to know if VKFX delay included in IFX is 1:1 copy or not.
Thank you! I'm really loving this app too! The effects are really special. I'm combining this delay unit with Quatum Delay! So far I've got some pretty awesome presets for Live use with ToneX setup on iPhone.
The linked page below contains six examples of VKFX delay usage and SoundCloud.
(Note: Presumably the VKFX delay is the source/origin of the iFX Rack delay, but I’m not certain.)
6 Creative Ways to Use The VKFX Delay – Free with SONAR X3 Studio or Producer
https://noelborthwick.com/cakewalk/2013/11/11/6-creative-ways-to-use-vkfx-delay/
I really love this delay! By the way, it's the same exact delay it just has a different skin green rather than gold.
I learned so much from the explanations in the manual provided in the link!
Anyone have any info regarding the FVerb Module? I'm really enjoying this reverb!!! But I'd like to know what some of the knobs are supposed to be doing?
This won't be a lot of help, but FVerb is based on the longstanding public domain Freeverb originally written by "Jezar at Dreampoint".
Which controls do you have questions about?
Thanks Wim!
There's 2 one on top of the other that are not labeled right after the Panorama knob.
Also, the hold knob, i can't seem to figure it out. I max it nd lower it but it doesn't seem to do anything. Thanks Wim.
Those evidently affect the tone (color) of the reverb. My guess would be they're high cut and low cut of the wet signal. But that's just a guess.
Try engaging the Gate switch and see if you notice differences in the attack, "body", and release of the reverb tail. My guess is they do nothing unless you engage the Gate button.