Brian Walton

I think we have until the end of the month with this pricing (which might get more reviews in to see if the rating changes or we see feedback on it). I'd also assume that Scaler Music might end up with an official course.

The course itself. No concerns about the Scaler 3 program. I bought it and agree there is stuff to get used to but they also have an amazing track record of making things better. I already noted that they were called out on not having a "de authorize" function after switching to a "only 3 install" model and they have plans to remove the need to contact support if you exceed that. Honestly can't believe they made such a mistake out of the gate, but at least they listen.

The 4 star rating has me worried though. Anything below 5 stars on that platform is a red flag.

At least they bumped it back up. There was a time when it was 8% off on software product, then also $10% if it was under $100. It used to be 30% no matter what the cost.

Price is better at JRR shop anyway because IKM changed the tiers on JamPoints, you have to be at the $100 tier to use 30% off, so a purchase like this is only going to be 10% off when they allow it.

Might want to update your title to "TONEX" as I almost skipped the post having the Amplitube version already (which I never use). This TONEX package is a different story and one I've been hoping gets to a reasonable price and this was basically it. There isn't much clean in the package but these amps are well recorded/captured. While 3rd parties do a much better job with Clean to Mean with consistent EQ settings, I will say some of these individual captures here are really well done. I've never been a huge Mesa Boogie fan, but I do like some of their offerings and when you want to play along with a recording where mesa tone is appropriate this is going to be a go to even above some of the Amalgam captures of the same model amp. I think there is something to be said here of pulling out the amps Mesa have as "references" and a recording engineer that is very experienced with the particular amps. I wish they took a more wholistic approach (a criticism I have of every TONEX pack that IKM has as a branded release) but no arguing some of these are quite good).

Well the scaler 3 times installer did have a box you can uncheck bypass the internal sound install. But I don't think and alternative path option exists.

In the arranger view you can change the granularity with which you can drag the chord blocks As for the pre-mature release. Given it was in development for at least a year - and the drag out on the pre-release lead up - I think they could have easily done a larger beta, there were lots of willing participants but seems like the beta was pretty last minute. In fact, I didn't even bother signing up for it because it was only going to be about a month to play around before it was actually released or so.

It has quite a few sounds built in. Even a small sample library of a single instrument is going to be that size or larger these days. I would suggest posting the keyboard binding concept in the Scaler forum. Seems like an oversight in the stand alone app if it wasn't included.

VR Pro 2 was released literally a year ago, hardly a long in the tooth offer. VSTs can run properly for decades as long as it wasn't encoded with bugs not needing a single update.

Interesting, I did assume it was the old version due to timing of the initial offer. I've used it a fair bit over the years as a quick fix. Haven't tried the new version to see if it is more than an aesthetic face lift.

Bumping a 7 month old thread, perhaps it was limited in nature?

I haven't really tested it enough to say. Have other things that have some EQ matching functionally but never use them. At least this one looks more straightforward potentially. I do think seeing and comparing the equipment EQ on my own guitars in there and even comparing the pickup profile in the same guitar is interesting. So if you did a ton of them as well, maybe install it to check that out. That said if you have complete and haven't even installed Turbo reverb, I'd say you are missing out there potentially.

Here is another tidbit of info I determined myself. The Guitar EQs are from that massive "send us your guitar recordings" project. There are enough very specific guitars that I submitted in there to be 100% sure this is the case that was a major source of them.

The ToneX marketing has been eye opening into the model they have started to choose. Send influencers free stuff, that creates buzz, give them early access to more tonex related releases (software, hardware, and packs), now the product is in front of millions of potential customers many times even before something hit the shelves. As someone who has created more captures than many of these influencers, it is a little annoying. But certainly a smart business move instead of investing a ton of money in marketing concepts that don't see a ROI. I'd like for IKMto send me one of the Cabs so I could do a video comparing a Trainwreck capture through the ToneX cab with an A/B comparison in the room vs the Real Trainwreck Amp into the Ampeg 4x12 with pre-rolla 30s in it that Ken Fischer hand selected the amp to be played through. If that ToneX capture and Cab can keep up and compare favorably to that - it would be truly something.