Studio is always the best place to have peace of mind in making music. Studio environment can enhance your playing, practising, performing skills but what about Recording?
Virtual Studio Technology or VST Instruments are the essential tools for creating Music in the 21st Century. Here are some of the Best VST Guitar Instruments for home studio / professional studio based musicians.
Virtual Studio Technology or VST Instruments are the essential tools for creating Music in the 21st Century. Here are some of the Best VST Guitar Instruments for home studio / professional studio based musicians.
IK Multimedia Amplitube 5
Amplitube has been identified as the Best Amp simulation and Pedalboard Simulation Plugins available for Guitar based VSTs. As a successor to Amplitube 4, the all new Amplitube 5 already had a buzz going around as it initially hit the news. This is truly a fully functional Guitar Amp with Pedalboard that allows customizable Serial / Parallel Routing with innumerable designs for cabinets and microphone types. Amplitube 5 has added a lot more presets in comparison to its predecessor Amplitube 4.
- Universal upgrade from any previous version of AmpliTube
- Restores all your gear from previous purchases via the Custom Shop
- Works as a standalone application and as a plug-in in your favorite DAW
- Live performance mode with preset switching via MIDI control in standalone version
- Fully redesigned Graphical User Interface with resizable display
- Huge database of presets with gear-oriented tags and keywords, advanced search function and more
- Proprietary DSM™ and VRM™ technologies deliver hyper-realistic, real-world gear emulations
- Dynamic Response Modeling provides improved amp response and feel across the entire signal chain
- Fully redesigned power amp section for new and legacy gear with impedance matching
- Simplified signal chain creation and management with custom routing options
- Expanded rig with up to 57 simultaneous FX
- New effects in the mixing section derived from T-RackS
- Stereo signal path makes the effects chain suitable for any type of instrument including drums, keyboards, vocals and more
- New VIR™ Volumetric Impulse Response cabinet engine
- New impulse response loader with up to 2,400 impulse responses per cabinet
- New custom user-supplied impulse response loader and editor
- Individual speakers can be swapped to any cabinet position (on 12” speaker models)
- Up to 31 individual speaker models available with more added to Custom Shop
- Two movable cab mics allow you to precisely mic the speaker cabinet
- Two movable ambient mics allow you to adjust the impact of the selected room
- Built-in 8-track multitrack recorder DAW in standalone operation
- Imports any Wav, Aiff, sd2, Apple Caf, Flac, MP3 audio file (standalone version)
- SpeedTrainer tool for speeding up/slowing down imported tracks without affecting the pitch
- Export loops to hard drive and import into the DAW section
- Import audio to track 1 in looper for playing over backing track loop
- Supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz
- DAW automation and BPM synchronization
- Built-in Custom Shop offers access to the full range of AmpliTube gear for free trial and purchase
- Integrates perfectly with IK’s range of audio interfaces and controllers
AmpliTube is a 64-bit application and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.
- Mac: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo (Intel Core i5 suggested), 4 GB of RAM (8 GB suggested), macOS 10.10 or later. 3 GB of hard drive space. Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3, AAX.
- Windows: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 (Intel Core i5 suggested), 4 GB of RAM (8 GB suggested). Windows® 7 or later. 3 GB of hard drive space. Requires an ASIO compatible sound card.
Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter. Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 2, VST 3, AAX.
Zplane deCode
deCoda’s knowledge of a song’s beat, tempo and structure let you navigate in musical terms rather than in samples or seconds. Explore the song in parts, bars or beats just with a keyboard hit or touch screen swipe. Automatically have a section loop and expand these loops just as quickly. Concentrate on your instrument, not the navigation.
- Find Key, tempo and chords with the help of advanced algorithms
- Learn to play songs in parts with flexible looping options
- Automatic song structure detection helps you find intro, verse, chorus etc.
- Transpose parts or the entire track to a key that suits you better
- Change tempo without changing the pitch
- Use the Focus EQ to isolate a certain instrument
- View the parts of the song on a piano roll display
- Export MIDI parts that you have traced from the audio.
- Audio formats – wav, aiff, mp3, wma, flac, ogg
- Native compatibility with Apple M1 processors
- macOS 10.15 Catalina – macOS 12 Monterey (Intel & M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only) Minimum System CPU – 2 GHz Minimum Screen Resolution – 1366 x 768
- Windows 10 – Windows 11 (64-bit only) Minimum System CPU – 2 GHz Minimum Screen Resolution – 1366 x 768
Positive Grid BIAS AMP 2
Positive Grid BIAS AMP 2 is an advanced Amp Modeling Software that can create very realistic sounding Amp Simulation. The most astonishing and useful feature is Amp Match that can create an amp settings for matching any of the supplied WAV to the closest possible. Which means, now you can recreate the tone of your favourite song with a single click and further tweak them to your likings.
- Advanced Amp Modeling Software
Swap out tubes, customize preamps, power amps, transformers, and tone stacks with open/closed back cabinet and multi-mic capabilities with the virtual amp. - Realistic Amp Match V2
Match the tone of any mic’d amp or any audio file to create, customize and tweak your very own dream guitar amplifier - Dynamic Tube Engine
Improved hyper-realistic touch response tube circuit simulation, new tubes, transformer, dynamic tone control with redesigned speaker module. - Virtual Amps on the Cloud
Join the online Tone Cloud community and share or download custom virtual amps created by world-renowned artists, session players and guitarists.
- macOS Sierra 10.12 to Big Sur 11.6.1, Apple silicon using Rosetta, 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB or more recommendedAudio plug-in formats: Audio Units, VST 2, AAX Native1GB free disk spaceAn Internet connection is required to activate your license and access ToneCloud. Positive Grid software products do not support offline activation at this moment. Offline mode is available after software activation.
- Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, and Windows 104GB of RAM minimum, 8GB or more recommended1.5GHz Dual core processor minimum, 2.0GHz Dual core or more recommendedAudio plug-in formats: VST 2, AAX Native500MB free disk space (32 or 64-bit version)An Internet connection is required to activate your license and access ToneCloud. Positive Grid software products do not support offline activation at this moment. Offline mode is available after software activation.
Plugin Boutique Scaler 2
Scaler is an inspirational and powerful music theory workstation that gives you access to a world of new ideas, expressions and melodies. With powerful detection of MIDI and audio, Scaler can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music. The plugin helps you discover the perfect melody with performance expressions, and can even suggest ways to change from one key to another.
- Discover your music’s key and explore alternative scales and chord sets
- Choose from hundreds of keys, quickly build progressions in the sequencer
- Over 200 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
- Over 200 genre and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM, Progressive
- Browse chord variations to get suspended chords, extended chords, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
- Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time and synced to your DAW
- Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions
- Experiment with different chord voicings to spread notes across the keyboard
- Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
- macOS Sierra 10.12 to Big Sur 11.6.1, Apple silicon using Rosetta, 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB or more recommendedAudio plug-in formats: Audio Units, VST 2, AAX Native1GB free disk spaceAn Internet connection is required to activate your license and access ToneCloud. Positive Grid software products do not support offline activation at this moment. Offline mode is available after software activation.
- Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, and Windows 10, 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB or more recommended, 1.5GHz Dual core processor minimum, 2.0GHz Dual core or more recommendedAudio plug-in formats: VST 2, AAX Native500MB free disk space (32 or 64-bit version)An Internet connection is required to activate your license and access ToneCloud. Positive Grid software products do not support offline activation at this moment. Offline mode is available after software activation.
CLA Guitars
Two words describe the CLA Guitars plugin: Instant Gratification. Every time I plug in my axe, I just can’t stop playing! It delivers the guitar sounds I’ve used on tracks from Green Day to Daughtry, quickly and easily. It’s like a guitar toolbox with all the necessary combinations. The plugin features three modes—Clean, Crunch, and Heavy—with DI and Re-amping modes for each. You get three colorcoded presets for the six most important effects, for the perfect blend of bass, treble, compression, reverb, delay, and chorusing/doubling.
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- Mac CPU Intel Core i7 / i9 / Xeon-W / Apple M1 See notes regarding Apple M1 (ARM-based) processors Memory Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended) 16 GB free disk space on the system drive Operating System 10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.3.1 Screen Resolution Minimum: 1024×768 Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024 USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
- Windows CPU Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above) AMD Quad Core AVX Support required Memory Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended) 16 GB free disk space on the system drive Operating System Windows 10 64 bit (21H2) Windows 11 (21H2) Screen Resolution Minimum: 1024×768 Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024