LWL (looping with laptops) - multi-FX VST and compressor/limiter VST

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

I'll second your comments on the quality of Amplitube, especially from a
features per processor load standpoint. For me, Amplitube is just what it
should be - a nice combination of guitar amp modeling and a few effects, 
all
in one nice package which is easy on the system load. I'm not a real
guitarist myself, so I can not only dream of replacing an amp, but actually
do so.
(sidenote: I have enforced a "no instrument amps onstage" law for my
Eclectic Blah ensemble. Guitarists usually don't like this - but one of the
side effects is a vast reduction of sound level onstage, which in turn has
positive effects on the playing. End of unrelated sidenote).

Looking at your plugin setup: do you really need The Grand? While my 
quality
requirements for acoustic piano sounds are considerably higher than for
guitar amp tone (being a classically trained pianist), I have thought about
The Grand, but come to the conclusion that as part of a big sonic texture,
Kontakt's acoustic pianos are sufficient for what I want to do and less
resource-hungry.

        Rainer


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Chris Kline [mailto:contact@chriskline.com] 
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 15:18
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: LWL (looping with laptops) - multi-FX VST 
> and compressor/limiter VST
> 
> I've been very impressed with Amplitube's processor usage for 
> both amp simulation and reverb.  I won't tell you i like 
> their sound quality, but it's efficient and passable.  I 
> wouldn't dream of replacing a guitar amp with this plugin, 
> but it can spice up a guitar tone...that goes for NI guitar 
> rig 1, simulanalog, warp, and a few others i've tried but 
> can't remember - I noticed they all used much more processor 
> though.  I use a seperate instance of amplitube just for the 
> reverb unit...it won for live use after I tried many reverb 
> plugins - freeverb being one of the least efficient.  I have 
> a 2.4Ghz single core fujitsu C, it's not bad but I can't run 
> too many plugins live without glitches.  The processor is 
> between 30% and 65% usage (depending on how many notes I'm 
> playing) running the following plugins simultaneously under Bidule:
> NI B4
> NI Kontakt
> NI FM7
> Steinberg The Grand
> Rekliner Loopy Llama
> Rekliner TremoLlama
> IK Multimedia Amplitube (2 instances)