you guys are welcome. I had said in other threads at KVR, GAM, and Reaper that I was leaving guitar amp modeling. My delivery on those threads was wrong. In fact I will be moving on to other things, two main reasons for this...
1) First and most important, ABG needs to be involved with more things like vocal plugs, percussion, synths, etc. All of our eggs are in one basket right now and that is a bad thing.
2) I don't feel that our heads are really being used that much. I didn't really want to go into this here as well, but after all, I am a sneapster as much as any other member here and hell I even built you guys your own sneapsters head. So, you guys deserve as much to know as any other forum does. So, Allow me to explain myself, as was said the #1 reason we're moving into other areas is so that we are not single sourced, we need to cover all aspects of recording not just Guitar and bass. However, equally important, and critical to the success or failure of ABG is whether or not our plugs are used. This determines whether or not a value is placed on them, which in turn means whether or not people would pay a nominal fee for them..(like 10 or 15 dollars US). The idea is to keep the price as low as possible.
So, it has become completely obvious to me at least, that if we were to stay with just Guitar FX/Sims alone, ABG would in fact fail as we do not make clones/sims of existing heads, at least to their entirety, people are just not very interested in relatively original head concepts. It seems that they are only very interested in copies of existing heads.
So, once I came to that realization, I decided to start looking elsewhere in the plug market where one could be original and create new concepts and approaches to DSP. That is what this is, DSP and nothing else. We don't have a tube in the head, we have a bunch of math that makes the input signal turn into a similar looking wave that a tube would create. But what about removing the tube completely and saying its a guitar head for computer, absolutely guaranteed that it would get almost no recognition. So, in reality, I'm finding the guitar plug area very limiting in what I can and can't do. On one hand there is so much more we could be doing in Guitar DSP, but, on the other hand, there is no benefit to doing it as it would not be accepted because it is not a make believe head. Who knows how far we could go in terms of creating new types of sounds in guitar DSP. Imagine for a second this, however silly it may sound, I assure we could do this. Tell your guitar head's tubes to heat up to 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun and stay that way until you play an A chord, then when you play that A chord tell them to cool down to minus 4,196 degrees and boost the low end and cut down on the GAIN.
I know that is a silly example, but until there is support for free thinking original DSP concepts in this area, you will continue to get yet another Marshall clone, and yet another Fender, and Vox, etc, etc...ad naseum.
I'm not trying to slag any of the developers that are creating these types of clones, I mean these guys are friends of mine, they all already know my thoughts and goals. Even the commercial developers, a lot of them are friends too, and, they are held by what the public finds important in a sim, not what they want to do, or could be doing. They are governed by you..
So, G-SPOT represents My last computer amp sim in terms of new designs and approaches. I have not continued research in the tube area any more whatsoever, nor have I continued developing new ideas for sims at all. I am only working now on Room reactions and Impulse response modeling. Luckily, Cab Enhancer 2.0 will be developed fully, that is because the technology that is going into that can be used to model EQ, COMPRESSORS, REVERBS, etc, for mastering, percussion, vocals, and synths as well as a surround sound room modeler for the motion picture industry.
Anyways, I hope my delivery on that news here was less abrasive than it was on other forums..
KM
Edit: I forgot to mention this part here as well as the other forums(dumbass me!)...There will be upgrades to every released ABG plug done by me, but there will be no further research into tube models. These upgrades will consist of fixes and additional functionality. So, it will not be research based upgrades...
KM
Why don't u collaborate to create some kind of "amp-maker"? I mean some kind of user friendly application with all the tools needed to create a real amp. Basically this would be a custom version of a previously released ampsim with added stuff (different valves and other components). This way u can virtually create any amp in the market and even brand new amps.
