metropolis_4
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I feel like I'm just waiting for someone to step up, stand out from the pack and give us the mature, professional amp sim plugin we're all waiting for.
I feel like there is a golden opportunity for someone to really step out from the pack and give us a solid, mature, modern product in this field. Sooner or later, some company is going to get smart and realize amp sims are being used by serious guitar players as a serious rig alternative to the traditional tube amp/pedals, and they are going to make a product geared towards serious guitarists. Not iPhone app hobbyists, or studio producers, but working musicians.
- Native Instruments seems to have completely lost interest in developing Guitar Rig and it's become antiquated. The amps sound so dated by this point it's like a time warp.
- IK Multimedia is really letting AmpliTube show its years, and their business and development model seems too old fashioned to keep up with modern times. They've been a bit greedy and misleading by keeping old models in with new, making it difficult to tell them apart, and charging similar prices for them. Plus they seem determined to keep an old fashioned proprietary, monolithic system that forces you to buy in to their entire model, instead of being able to piece together components from other companies (IR loading, I'm looking at you).
- S-Gear is great, and Mike is a great guy. But development on it seems to be crawling along at snail pace. There's a lot of buzz about it now, but will they be able to keep that momentum going when updates and new products are so few and far between?
- ReValver is good, but not the most user friendly, and marketing and the website for it are confusing and not well designed making it more difficult to get a feel for it.
- GTR3 is ancient and Waves seems to also have lost interest in developing it
- SofTube seems to be making some awesome stuff, but you have to buy into the UAD ecosystem to access it.
I feel like there is a golden opportunity for someone to really step out from the pack and give us a solid, mature, modern product in this field. Sooner or later, some company is going to get smart and realize amp sims are being used by serious guitar players as a serious rig alternative to the traditional tube amp/pedals, and they are going to make a product geared towards serious guitarists. Not iPhone app hobbyists, or studio producers, but working musicians.