Brian Walton

Just use the free version of Tonex and be selective with the 20 free captures you can put in it without having to pay a dime. It can sound better than the Neural stuff with the right profile, and Bass players certainly don't need more than 20 HQ captures.

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I'm getting the whole your account doesn't exist deal even though I have quite a few emails from them over the years about orders, etc. and while I see this on the website - any emails that look like activation stuff from a long time ago are not invalid. Put me down for another - they have issues responses.

Thus the question if you installed the new version and tested it, you don't have to buy it, they have a demo period.

With the new program/installer? Or just the beta version?

Was hoping for better than 2 on-line only authorizations tied to the computer. Especially with a brand new unknown company that could close shop in a few months.

SM58 is fine for loud band live use, but there are much better dynamics if you are actually recording vocals. LDC can be difficult to do at home on vocals unless you don't have anyone else home and live far away from people and animals. As for the OP, in these less than ideal conditions noise reduction software is quite helpful. Acon Digital, (hate to say it - Waves Clarity VX - if on vocals), Izotope RX Elements, and the to be released this month Goyo Separator would be things to look at and consider for options in this space.

Yeah that is the way it works every year...except this is the first time I've seen them say they are limiting to 10K freebies. The limited authorization period is also new development (likely designed to trap into WUP instead of letting users grab a few codes and then use those codes to activate when WUP time comes around. I would say also to prevent flippers, but these plugins are also worthless on the 2nd hand market.

Yep, I'm familiar with Guitar Pro. The ironic thing perhaps being I'm sure that midi is far better than the average input from a midi keyboard (and if you are using a midi guitar for the input - one could probably actually play it on guitar).

This would be my guess also, but also hoping there is also something a bit broader here also but I'd guess that is the core of the project is to get a guitar instrument "library" into MSoundFactory. Wondering what the size will be like though, I have 6 sets of captures (Vintage Les Paul and a Heritage Prospect - more to come) in the method requested and it is a bit over 600 megs even at 44.1 16bit. While I'm sure that gets truncated that is also reflective of a single "dynamic layer" so hopefully this doesn't balloon into another 60+ GIG required library.

Thanks! I just checked it out running through some ToxeX profiles. Some parts certainly sound better than others and obviously hinges quite a bit on the MIDI file as many notes certainly sound "keyboard triggered" instead of picked with a guitar and the various dynamics you get there. The core tone itself does at least sound like a guitar DI (unlike some others I've heard). That said, I ran through my very poorly played examples I've been working on to load into Melda's contraption and the recorded sound is light years better tonally than that the sampled instrument (though the same ToneX models). But once everything is homogenized, I'd tend to expect similar results unless Melda has something interesting up their sleeve.

Yes I do mean an unprocessed sample of a guitar. The problem with many that I've heard is that they don't sound like they were recorded with the proper impedance which is important to get the right sound reamped. Or it lacks some sort of dynamic articulation or oddity in decay of a note...that sort of thing. I think I've only tried the free Martin and Bass from AmpleSound.

No, but you can load captures of actual amps into it that are some of the most accurate on the market...at the cost of cpu consumption. Electrum which is based on melda framework has an amp match function, but not as good as one might hope. Since Melda already has some eq matching abilities in the suite I'm sure what most things of as matching isn't hard to get to, real amp matching is far more complex to get feel, saturation, harmonics right than just an eq of the input vs output.

They already integrated NAM so I'm guessing this is more on the instrument creation side which can be fed into MGA for theoretically authentic sounds.

It is, but the average guitar player honestly doesn't play dynamically and playing direct without the feedback of the amp likely won't help. Of course just speculation on how this will be useful. Interesting the plan here since he isn't asking for the same dry and the processed source...which is what you want for machine Learning. I'll provide some files this way but also interesting this isn't what he asked for. What examples actually sound like a legit clean guitar source?

Mezzabarba amps sound like garbage to me (a bunch of pre-amp distortion) not a fan. I do agree with trying to swap out cabs with 3rd party IRs, etc and thankfully there are a few direct captures which makes swapping better (generally speaking). Not a high gain fan. I will disagree related to IKM's own offerings - there are a lot of duds that IKM did and to your point about getting a gain range out of the amp, this was another major mistake IKM made in their offering, IMO. They might have a clean, drive, higher gain option in the pack, but they frequently make major changes in the recording path (different cab, mic selections, eq, etc unlike one would use in the real world for different gain ranges and this is another place that 3rd party packs shine....as for not know what they are doing for full of it. They do have some good captures, but there really are a lot that are just "toss in the trashcan. " I'd argue that while I'm not a great player, I do know guitar tone and feel fairly well, and I'm also the only person that has captured the amp Ken Fischer said was the greatest amp he ever made via ToneX and have made over 400 captures of various gear and experimented with Normal and Advanced settings to see and feel the difference. ToneNet can be a big time waster, but there are also some of the best captures that anyone has done there with some seriously deep digging. A lot of it is garbage though.

Honestly doubtful but maybe some machine learning...there is a difference and many confuse the two. That said, who cares he is basically just asking for some clips that will hopefully give us a cool product. VSTs that sound like an unprocessed guitar are sorely lacking - and I mean that actually sound like a real guitar to a guitar player. Buy asking for a boat load of the real thing, maybe he can fix that. The reward here seems super generous. I'm going to take a few of my guitars and see how long it takes and what happens. Seems like I could knock out a few in a single hr. Based on the ask. The only concern I have here is he isn't asking for dynamic playing which I wonder how it will impact authenticity.

My experience is money is better spent with 3rd party packs than going MAX. I own MAX due to the pedal purchase, but had the basic version before the pedal came out. While there were some amps on the MAX list I wanted, turns out IKM didn't capture them well. 150 slots in the Tonex pedal... I think 6 of them are from IKM (three of which will likely get the boot as I update options I have again. All this said, the pedal is where it is at as that gives a physical object, low latency and also the full software package on top. Also note the number of 3rd party packs I have is way above that MAX with jam points buy in price.

It seems it has lots of amps that I don't recall in v1, thus the question about the difference. Not only is the UI different - pretty sure there is different stuff to not just the ability to run v1 inside of amp locker

Yep, $10 but other than curiosity about the Komet amp sim (big Komet fan and ToneX has next to nothing there), I just can't shake the fact the suite would never get used since I have TONEX and a bunch of after market packs.

Can someone name one great mix that required the use use of Soothe 2 to make it good?

Perhaps the only plugin I can think of that I think is worth full retail.

Well if you bought v1 of Sasquatch it was included, check your user account download section Boz has some glitches with the cost of a product. Sometimes it correctly says $0 if you own it, other times it does not, and gets even more unusual when you are dealing with Bundles, where I own all the plugins in a bundle but the amount for each plugin and "upgrade" prices are out of wack from if you owned them individually.

interesting move, wonder if they are going to "pull" the CM one out of the Computer Music pile with this move. Or no longer provide updates to that one, etc.

Hopefully you responded with a long list of some concerns.