kartikg3
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I certainly won’t ever complain on Line 6 about it. Putting profiling in something like the stomp may very well be an excellent idea in todays market… but I wouldn’t ever use it or ever want to. Maybe just me…
But yeah, because of this I don't really get the current love affair with the ToneX pedal and software.
That was me until a few days ago when I decided to see what all the fuss with ToneX was about. I spent a day (lol) trying to figure out how to make my HX Stomp double up as a pure audio interface to use with my DAW and have VSTs loaded. I started on this journey a tally after Line6 announced another sale of the Helix Native, on which I finally jumped, and eventually fell in love with the freedom! After I successfully got HX Stomp+Native to work, I got VST Amp modeling curious, got Amplitude demo and Tonex demo and WOW. That JCM800 man, I just LOVED it. I kept trying different profiles they have, and yes, I can now see (or hear rather) what the fuss is about. Profile captures some "photorealism" and "feel" (I cringe as I type that word here) that is really refreshing. I love modeling and Line6 HX models rock. But it's nice to have nicely profiled captured as well for that "uniquely real" flavour.
Then I stumbled upon NAM, which is an open source machine learning amp capyure and playback plugin, that is getting popular really fast with its community shared patches and captures. I tried it and loved it as well.
@Digital Igloo Line6 should definitely try incorporating something like that into the HX line, could unlock so much, esp. in this current trend of AI capture h/w that are sounding quite darn good.