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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
PRESS RELEASE
Softube Presents Vintage Amp Room Software
October 14, 2008
Advertisement While most audio DSP engineers devote themselves to creating the perfect and the pristine, Softube's team of brilliant young coders took a decidedly different tact: Modeling the non-linearities of tubes, speakers, spring reverbs, power amps, and a variety of esoteric audio gear. Why follow the retro path from rocket scientist to rock 'n' roll scientist? Simple: The team discovered early on that the human ear totally ignores many of the fine sonic details found in traditional models, and instead zeroes in on the crazy stuff, which the ear finds pleasing. In musicianspeak, it's why so much of the coolest gear has tubes. With that insight — and a healthy dose of patented technology in hand — Vintage Amp Room™ was born. Comprising three classic amps, the software suite provides a powerful direct path between the guitarist and the DAW, replicating, with uncanny accuracy, the true performance of real, live, hardware amplifiers. Not bogged down with fancy un-guitar-amp-like parameters, bunches of over-effected presets, or layers of geekspeak tech nonsense, the amp, speaker cabinet, and microphone models in Vintage Amp Room allow serious guitarists to dive right into the heart of the matter: tone. Asked about the appreciably outstanding quality of the models, Softube founder and lead engineer Oscar Oberg offered "Well, of course, we have multiple proprietary designs, we model every capacitor, resistor, diode, and tube in the circuit, and we utilize resonance modeled IIR filters with extraordinary numerical stability. But more importantly, we have some serious secret mojo." "And we get to live in Sweden!" chorused Niklas and Torsten, two of the company's illustrious programming gurus, whose simultaneous outburst was just a teeny bit creepy thanks to their matching snowsuits. Now distributed in the Americas by MV Pro Audio, the complete line of Softube products can be found at fine music retailers. Available for both Mac and PC, and in VST, AU, RTAS, and TDM formats, the current product lineup includes Vintage Amp Room, Metal Amp Room, Spring Reverb, Tube Delay, and Acoustic Feedback.  (Click for close-up)Recent Softube headlines
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