Good day,
A very, very impressive review, as well an impressive console...whatever it is...[Click_me]
I presently own most of the "name brand" sims. I have rented a Helix, tried the Native Helix as well, tried the Eleven rack, have not tried an AXE FX yet...though for the cost I really do not see myself obtaining one.
Of them all, the two that I would suggest would be Scuffham's S-Gear - though development has been stalled for some time now, and...of course...Overloud's TH-U. Thought Overloud - and others, it would seem, focus on "metal sounds" - which I am not interested in at all, TH-U producers some of the biggest clean sounds I have yet heard from a sim/modeler. If there is a down-side to TH-U - it is the sheer number of presets to weed-through - some 1831 at last count!! Now that is a lot of presets....though Guitar Rig probably has more.
The only concern that I have for S-Gear is the licensing scheme - use the 'Net-based one or use an iLok. Due to the problems that I have had in the past with the 'Net-based version, I opted for the iLok version - but both require a number of really unnecessary hoops to go through to get the app installed. I have been able to install TH-U in a somewhat "portable-mode" for "off-Net" usage.
The Rig Player add-on for TH-U is really quite impressive indeed...as Mr. Slate has pointed out in the above review.
A very interesting sim was free "GreenMachine" - developed use SynthEdit, though there is only the 32-bit version out there.
If anyone is interested however, have a look at ToneLib-GFX - this app is free and is well-worth a peep.
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