His criticisms of IK and UA are unwarranted especially when there’s plenty of warranted stuff on the table.
My ToneX captures are still hit and miss and they take 30-35 mins a pop (with a 3090 gpu) whilst NAM remains perfect 95% of the time. They also don’t have any kind of batch processing and a few creature comforts that NAM has caught up on. I did about 20-30 captures reamping the NAM file through an amp, exporting the files then uploading for batch processing and checking it an hour later. In comparison to do 2 ToneX captures I had to sit and wait for it to finish before I could do the next one.
I don’t find it enjoyable to dunk on things but it’s kind of disappointing to see the lack of advancement in these areas from IK. They’ve clearly made tons of revenue off this product and it’s been out for years. It’s kind of baffling how capturing is still so rudimentary, time consuming and a crap shoot on results. These are all probably simple things to fix but nothing has advanced.
*Edit*
I still recommend their pedal for people wanting a cheap way into this kind of thing. If I was just a player looking for a pedal it’s good enough to do the job and extremely affordable. Again, it’s just annoying that contributing to this ecosystem is a bit of a punish and results are so/so. If my results were consistently good and they had batch processing I’d be 2 feet deep into it, I just want them to do better
