AmpliTube CS: free guitar amp plugin by IK Multimedia
Free version of AmpliTube with a starter set of amps and pedals.
Opens IK Multimedia's own site.
Put SCRAMBLE. on your drums, 808s and vocals
One button rolls a new FX chain: glitch, stutter, tape stop, chops, reverb, delay and vocal tune. There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible chains, the same count as the positions of a 3x3 cube. Save 10,000 presets a day and 1% of them would take 118 billion years, over 8x the age of the universe.
Not just loops: drum buses, 808s and bass, hats, vocals and the master bus. 3,000+ downloads so far.
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AmpliTube CS FAQ
Is AmpliTube CS free?
Yes. AmpliTube CS is a free guitar amp plugin from IK Multimedia. The button on this page goes straight to the maker's own download page.
What is AmpliTube CS good for?
Free version of AmpliTube with a starter set of amps and pedals.
What are the best alternatives to AmpliTube CS?
Other free guitar amp plugins worth trying are Neural Amp Modeler, TSE 808 and Boogex. See the full ranked list of free guitar amp plugins.