Friday, October 24, 2008

Hardcore virtual guitar effects

Posted by Jon in • Guitar Software,

Hardcore Effects
Virtual guitar stomp boxes is certainly not a new idea with Software such as Amplitube and Guitar Rig already popular solutions to the computer guitar processing market, a new addition to this market place is Image Line’s Hardcore. Image Line are already famous for their flagship software audio DAW FL Studio as well as their software synth plugins such as PoiZone and Morphine and now they have expanded into the world of Guitar Effect plugins:

“When I started Hardcore the idea was to fill the ‘distortion’ guitar plugin gap in the Image Line FX suite, but it turned into a much bigger and exciting project” noted the developer of Hardcore, Maxx Claster. It seems that once Maxx had created one guitar plugin, it was difficult for him to stop. Maxx Claster is well known to Image Line customers for the synths Morphine, PoiZone and Toxic.

Hardcore includes 10 carefully crafted stomp-box simulations:
—Distortion
—Chorus
—Flanger
—Phaser
—Reverb
—Delay
—Noise Gate
—Equalizer
—Compression
—Modulator

Five stomp-box simulations can be arranged in any order on the Hardcore pedal board. The output then passes through an 8-band graphic EQ and Cabinet Simulator, tying it all together into one massive sound.

Plugin formats:
- FL Studio plugin
- VSTi 2.4 (Win/OSX)
- Audiounit (OSX)

For more information head over to Image Line’s website.

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Peter on 10/24 at 10:11 PM

Oh cool! I used to use the hell out of FruityLoops back in the day, and I’m always up for messing about with new effects, be they simulations or the real thing (my current pedalboard looks like Skylab, if satellites were made mostly by MXR). I think I’ll check this out. I like how the pedal designs resemble the old 80s Ibanez pedals.

Todd on 10/25 at 12:55 AM

I’ve been using RiffWorks and really like the flexibility, but haven’t been able to dial in the sound I’m looking for. I’m looking for to trying this out.

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com on 10/26 at 02:01 AM

It was a time when I looked very strange at software effects. Nothing could compare with my BOSS processor, in my mind. Actually after I purchased the TonePort a couple of months ago, I started to be very open about software effects, the technology evolved very much and the effects are so realistic these days.

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