IK Multimedia is a leading music technology company that harnesses advanced software and hardware design to make professional quality tools accessible to everyone - from its ground-breaking AmpliTube, T-RackS and SampleTank software, to its iRig series of interface and music creation tools for iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac/PC; all the way to the innovative iLoud reference monitors, and much more.
With AmpliTube, IK Multimedia already offers the most accurate models of the world's most popular amp and FX sim, while German companies have painstakingly now modeled every single potentiometer and electronic component that could have an effect on sound - and all that is available to musicians to use, even from an iPhone. The latest trend in this approach, is to create new "universal" hardware that offers access to those virtual models through high-quality equipment that simply just make it easier to load and select any model for any type of sound, any time, on the studio or on stage. Even IK Multimedia has done that in its AmpliTube X-GEAR series of effects pedals. The modeling approach seems to have come full circle.
IK Multimedia is now moving to a new approach, and selling its AI Machine Modeling as a service to musicians. For the first time, using artificial intelligence, Machine Modeling software will enable guitar and bass players, without any custom hardware, to model the sound of any amp, cabinet or combo, plus pedals like distortion, overdrive, fuzz, EQ or boost, all with a new level of accuracy that's virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
IK's powerful machine learning neural network will capture the real tone of any equipment in just minutes using real guitar signals, not just test tones, for a level of authenticity that the company says was unimaginable until now.
Users simply route IK's special guitar/bass capture track through their setup to record the sound of any rig or piece of gear and then feed it into the Machine Modeling's deep neural network software together with the original direct injection (unprocessed) track. The AI Machine Modeling software will compare the "DI" and "wet" signals to generate an exact algorithm of the modeled rig in minutes.
The result is called a "Tone Model," a hyper-realistic, dynamic software clone of the rig or gear. Tone Models reproduce every nuance of an amp or pedal in precise detail with technology so advanced that even an amp and cabinet can be modeled together, then the two virtually separated to try other cabinets.
The algorithm can even capture an entire rig including harmonically complex fuzz, overdrive or other distortion pedals in front of an amp. And users can create all of these with just a computer, audio interface and a reamplification box. Good news for manufacturers of reamps.
Creating a Tone Model, IK Multimedia explains, is easy and requires only a few pieces of standard recording equipment in addition to a modern computer. An audio interface like IK's AXE I/O with its dedicated Amp Out is ideal for users to create Tone Models using a microphone and no additional hardware. Or any regular 2 input/output audio interface and reamplification box can be used to capture amps, combos, and pedals. And that's it.
The online AI Machine Modeling software does the rest. IK Multimedia expects this service to be available very soon.
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