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I made the ultimate guitar amp, free (desktop) for everyone. | GAS Therapy #46
An other free plugin 
Mac & PC (free) https://playpm.gumroad.com/l/AnyAmpIR
iOS ($4.99) https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0F5YXBzcDhLTnBpYzhNSDJxVjdQb0NaeURFZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttcGFBeEZKT3Y4MGdBRk9YT3JPNGhWRHktVi1tblpHOVJtREEtbHhUZ20xV3pzUGZxWWVvZVJrSWtKNXdYdS1RWk1jc19Gdl8wVk0zOXRYMjBhaDNacHVmZXQ3ZnhaUnJBS3RrNk5jWFNoQmtZTFNJOA&q=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anyampir/id6445856376&v=peQP4Pxx4-s
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So do I understand correctly this is an IR player, you can import your own amp IRs, but that means you can load any IR, like reverbs?
I am still scratching my head over this plugin. It seems to be nothing other than an IR loader ... of which there are now many on iOS. Is there some other functionality I am not catching?
Looks to be a super simple IR player.
I think this dev's intention is to streamline his apps to only the most necessary and resourcefriendly functions. An example he gives in a video on his sample player is, that samples are left where they are and not copied into the preset. His brand is Gas therapy, so I guess he's saying not to accumulate apps, that you may not need. Well to each his own.
Yeah... no.
He mentions several times how IR's can capture EQ and compression. This is untrue on such a fundamental level that it raises the question why is he making such a claim?
Unless you are a paid researcher in academy or building state-of-the-art products (Acustica Audio does incredible work in this field), IR will usually mean a single impulse response file (maybe more if you're doing reverbs). A single IR can only represent a linear time invariant system, which can only represent a magnitude and a phase response, and absolutely zilch in the nonlinear (amplitude-dependent) department.
I think he knows this, so it's not nice of him to tell otherwise. Or does he?
Well maybe, he's too obsessed about telling everyone, how to do things properly, instead of really researching to the depth @dspguy apparently has. His Aggrostyle is kind of annoying (I made it 2 minutes into his video). I mean everybody knows every eq sounds the same, right ...
I mean of course he has a point in saying having every synth and FX doesn't necessarily make you more creative, and that some apps are cpuhogs, but there may be more than one way of doing things...
But he acts like this is something other than an IR loader...and there are many that already exist.
i also think it is misleading to call an ir loader the ultimate amp plug-in.
@espiegel123
Yeah, probably better ones too. I wasn't really defending him, but just telling, what I remembered from that other video of his, I watched some time ago. After that I gave the video in this post a quick play, and what he says about basically any equipment being bullshit and his stuff being the ultimate solution, having anything else is superfluid, I certainly don't feel like defending him.
I want to be careful with my next statement as I haven't watched the video he referred to, and I'm no amp sim expert, but from what I casually picked up over the years tells me that it's an incredible oversimplification that he basically steps over the whole topic of the distortion step in the processing chain. That alone is an incredibly deep topic I think.
I wish he didn't use that dubious wording about IR's capturing compression characteristics, because I am now a bit skeptical about how mind blowing that other video actually is.
@dspguy Sorry about spaghetti arguments and confusing pronouns. If you were referring to the video I mentioned, and you think I meant said video was mind-blowing in any way, you misunderstood me. I was referring to his Promovideo for aas sample player, in which he talked about his philosophy of keeping his plugins simple. In it he basically says his sample player (which loads a single sample and applies an adsr to it) is all you need to make music, everything else is superfluid (why would anybody want to use Multisamples;)). I do not share that opinion. While it's cool, that he makes free plugins (not the iOS versions), that may have some use for people, trying to market them as the ultimate solution, declaring everything else bogus, I find rather obnoxious. In my first comment, I was just pointing out, what the Dev declares as the standout feature of his app.
Oh I was referring to the guy (Michael) and the video he mentions at 4:54
Yeah I wonder if all of this is a buildup to him releasing something bigger eventually... Not sure. I do think simpler things can have their own charm, and creativity can be hindered by mind-melting arrays of possibilities, but I agree that he may be taking things a bit too far. And the pricing is kind of "experimental" I would say... I think he probably has fun developing these, good on him.
Ah, ok. I didn't get that far in the video, I guess, I get your point.
Looked at the comment section, and found 4-5 useful comments buried deep down towards the end. His responses are not impressive, let's just say that.
The rest of the comments are the stuff nightmares are made out of. I think the term is "toxic positivity"?
It's scary stuff. Hopefully someone will do an unbiased review.
Btw, BYOD is free and features IR loading and a host of distortion and effects … coded by a very talented programmer/musician.
Yeah, the educated consensus seems to be that Michael has definitely taken his gas therapy mission a bit too far this time. As @tyslothrop1 said, his first app, AASamplePlayer remains a cheap, lightweight and useful little app though, which I find myself reaching for reasonably often.
You can try it see if it can save the IR you chose from your device after you close the project. I do my version for a reason. I appreciated for Chow's work, but BYOD is also a JUCE based project, convolution part is almost the same.
I'll give AASamplePlayer a big workflow update soon, after that I will raise the price, $0.99 will become history made with early supporters. As far as I can foresee, price of my product will only go up, never down. I don't like apps tricking me with regular 50% price drop just for getting more exposure, it's cheap imo, I choose not to do it to others.
@playpm A single IR cannot capture compression or other non-linear characteristics, despite you repeating the opposite in the video. Several people tried pointing this out in the comments section. Replying with things like "sounds dynamic to me" is an insufficient argument, given the extraordinary claims in the video and the thinly veiled implication about the validity of competing products that have built on a foundation of decades of research and development.
It would be very helpful if you either clarified or retracted these statements, or engaged in a respectful conversation with the community who asked serious questions, and offer appropriate explanations. And maybe avoid things like this:
I wonder why the Mac & PC version is free but the iOS version costs $$$s (and not the other way around)?
Why not call it AASimpleIRloader? Nothing wrong with that.
Because on desktop no pockets could be shortened with this type of nonsense. He said in previous thread here he changed the misleading app description... well, for as long as it’s advertised as an amp it remains misleading... and frankly disrespectful...
Even if it were free I know I will stay away from him.
I’m guessing it’s to help cover the developer fees. The desktop versions don’t appear to be distributed via the App Store.
I pinned a comment on top of my video on clarify the compression part, it should be clear enough for everyone.
For the distortion part, here's the stock clip distortion in GarageBand, pairing it with eq can already make my guitar sound great and sits well in the mix, I'm sure there're other more "professional" guitar pedals out there, but that's what I mean, his describing sounds like a distortion plugin to me:
I like and frequently use the aa player, and I thought it filled a valuable gap in the marketplace, although the more I use the App store, the more I come to believe that scads of its content resist detection thru search, so I stand to be corrected. (Although if you have ApeMatrix it comes with a good standalone file player.) I also agree with Michael that apps that flood your system with background processes and hidden files are kind of insidious. Can't speak to this app, however.
I was delighted to read that comment from GCKelloch. I know him very well from other fora and I’ve never met anyone who understands how circuits affect audio (especially in regard to guitar audio) better than him.
Staggering to see his deep knowledge casually dismissed like that.
There's a new update. I like Michael and his anti influencer vibe, but I think he's really barking up the wrong tree with this dismissal of the depth of expertise behind guitar amp plugins. I don't find this new video, designed to address the critique of the last video, remotely convincing.
Not sure what I just watched. If it’s pure marketing for his (free) product then it’s at the expense of some truth. His lines about people assessing distortion without making it clear they mean distortion in the context of a guitar+amp setup (surely that is so obvious it doesn’t need to be said?) reminded me of Unison Audio (midi chord pack, anyone?).
If he’s genuinely showing his journey from ignorance to a level a little above ignorance (too harsh?) then it’s embarrassingly frank. It would be touching without the plug at the end.
On balance he comes across as a snake oil salesman to me, albeit with a free product.
So, someone is “really into guitar amps” but doesn’t use distortion at all…decides to investigate distortion by buying 2 pedals?
His attitude seems so mocking. If one does not care about distortion and hasn’t developed an appreciation for the nuances of different amps and pedals and the different ways they respond to touch and different pickups, you aren’t going to be in a position to make meaningful comparisons.