![]() The Hammond presets sound as good/better than software emulators or presets on standalone digital synthesizer workstations costing up to thousands of dollars. Soul/Classic Rock/Heavy Metal Organs - these are Hammond B-3/M-2 models with Leslie 122/142 cabs (there's even a control to actuate Leslie speaker rotation speed), there are additionally 9 user configurable stops, and percussion/chorus/distortion controls for each of these presets. Clavinet (think Hohner vintage/Stevie Wonder D-6 model) Wurlitzer Electric (has decay/tremolo/drive/chorus controls) Electric Piano (picture is a Fender Rhodes, but sound more like a Yamaha DX-7 or other FM synthesis Rhodes patch) ![]() Classic Grand Piano (think Steinway/Boesendorfer) Keyboards - If you buy the Apple USB Camera connector kit ($39) and an M-Audio Uno Midi=>USB interface (also $39), you can connect ANY MIDI keyboard to play the included keyboard instruments, which include: The only external effects you'd ever need in front of the input would be a wah or volume pedal. The sound quality of these is equivalent of stand alone effects unit costing up to $200. Auto-funk (hard to describe, includes a marginal auto-wah effect) Stompboxes included (you can use any combination of 4 in the effects chain): Gain - Bass - Middle - Treble - Reverb Level - Tremolo Depth/Speed - Presence - Master - Output All the amp models have identical controls that may not be identical to the originals: This works flawlessly using the iRig Guitar/bass input adapter if you use the "Clean Combo" setting for the Fender Blackface/Marshall 20 watt heads you get a pretty good approximation of a Fender Bassman/Marshall 20 watt Lead/Bass head for bass input. These are all pretty much "dead-on", make the modeling in Amplitude/other competitors sound like dogshit, and sound better/truer to the original than other hardware/software costing up to $500. "Stadium Stack - not sure what this is supposed to be, think it's HiWatt or Laney 50/100 watt head The Guitar Amp module includes unbelievably implementations of the following vintage/newer amps: That being said, and being in the business of manufacturing similar devices, it's pretty apparent to me that Apple launched this at least 2-3 months before Steve Jobs would have liked to, mainly to beat down Android tablet competition available later this year, which may lead to some of the few shortcomings I will relate.Įven if you never use anything else but the Guitar Amp module to output sound in to your existing DAW interface/recording setup, for $499 and $4.99 for for the application, it's not really a bad deal. I DO have 40 years experience being a musician and 20 years+ using analog/digital recording devices and modeling hardware/software. While at this stage it's not going to replace other hardware/software as a portable 8-track recording studio, as an in-house recording system for a "one-man-band" or prototyping tracks/making demos there's an awful lot of value here that is sure to expand in the future.Ĭaveat Emptor - I don't own a MacOS computer or have ever used the GarageBand application available for that platform, and only have about 4 hours into testing this system out. ![]() I had minimal expectations and thought I would wind up eBaying this thing after a week or two, but am mightily impressed. In short, if you are a musician and have $499 + $40-$120 for control interfaces to spend, you can't afford not to buy one of these.
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