Amplitube Tonex Pedal

[mchad]

Got leaked.

Cached on a retail site. $499US

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From that website:
Description
TONEX Pedal lets you store and play thousands of the world's most sought-after amps, cabs and pedals - or your own gear, modeled in minutes. IK's ground-breaking AI Machine Modeling technology captures every nuance of any guitar and bass amp, cab or pedal. Choose from an online library of thousands of rre, one-of-a-kind rigs, or use the included TONEX software to literally model your own gear at home on your computer. TONEX Pedal includes 480 Premium Tone Models of your choice plus unlimited access to free user Tone Models, for a limitless supply of sonic inspiration. In addition to letting you load up to 300 separate Tone Models to use at once, TONEX Pedal also offers IK's award-winning VIR(TM) cabinet and mic simulation, a custom IR loader to use your own impulses, plus an advanced noise gate, analog-modeled EQ and compressor, and stereo reverb derived from our award-winning AmpliTube X-TIME pedal. Made in Italy, TONEX Pedal features a rugged aluminum chassis, 24-bit, 192 kHz processing, massively wide 5 Hz-24 kHz response, and a whisper-quiet 123 dB noise floor. Plus TONEX Pedal also doubles as a 24 bit/96 kHz USB audio interface, so you don't need any other gear in the studio. And a convenient Editor application makes it easy to explore Tone Models and sync back to TONEX Pedal for never-ending inspiration.

[Christophersad]

Nice ! I don't understand why ik doesn't launch a fully featured multifx

[admin]

Nice ! I don't understand why ik doesn't launch a fully featured multifx

Higher cost DSP required - becomes tough to compete with known competition above $1k

[mchad]

[vtgearhead]

Just received my Tonex pedal and first impressions are very positive.  As usual the factory presets define the lower bound for what the unit is capable of but after about five minutes of tweaking I dialed in a killer edge-of-breakup Marshall tone.  Need to spend more time with it.

[gumtown]

The Tonex pedal is something the "impulse buyer me" wants now,
 but shall wait until the hype has died down a bit, and re-evaluate the "need vs want".

[mchad]

The Tonex pedal is something the "impulse buyer me" wants now,
 but shall wait until the hype has died down a bit, and re-evaluate the "need vs want".

I hear ya. It is tempting. The Tonex on a pedal board with some dirt pedals before it and a killer multi effect after.

NAMM is around the corner and maybe something else appears.

I think IK Multimedia have got the jump on other companies with the Tonex. If it is a good sounding unit of course. Internet chatter seems to suggest it is.

[vtgearhead]

The Tonex pedal is something the "impulse buyer me" wants now,
 but shall wait until the hype has died down a bit, and re-evaluate the "need vs want".

Oh, yes.  I'm usually put off by "excess exuberance" (see: Neural DSP Quad-cortex), but this one appears to live up to most of it.  Very smart design choice to offload profiling to a high-powered Mac or Windows box.  It can even use CUDA on newer Nvidia graphics adapters to speed up training.  At $399 USD it was an easy purchase decision.  It's probably more dear in your corner of the world.

[Bill Ruppert]

I bought one. Sorry I did.
Its back in the box.
Did not care for the sounds, architecture, effects(few), lack of EQ, horrid software and poor sluggish dynamics.
BIG internet hype job.

That is my personal assessment here in my studio with my ears.
I can get it all and BETTER with the SY or GT 1K

[admin]

Bill- was my assessment as well
.
But I'm floating in Kempers ,  Axe-FX, GT-1000, NUX, SPARKS.

[mchad]