Agile Partners on Tuesday released one of the biggest updates to an iOS app that I’ve seen. AmpiKit 1.2 made big changes under the hood, as well as adding many new features for guitarists using the iPad and iPhone.
Perhaps the two biggest improvements are Adaptive Input Compensation and Dual-stage Amp Simulation.
The company said that it noticed a loss of bass frequencies when the guitar signal is captured using the iOS device’s headset interface. The solution is Adaptive Input Compensation. Agile profiled the frequency response from the different iOS devices, adding back the bass into the signal.
The result, according to the company, is “an amazing increase in the fidelity of the incoming guitar signal, and much richer amplified guitar tone, regardless of amp and playing style, but especially noticeable on clean, jazz, and blues guitar as well as bass guitar.”
In AmpKit 1.2, Agile also took advantage of Apple’s newer A4 and A5 processors. Dual-stage Amp Simulation takes advantage of those processors and they doubled the simulation fidelity on all of our amps.
There are a lot of other new features too, including Solo & Mix Output Shaping; Convolutionbased Cabinet Simulation; and a new Noise Gate.
New gear for this release come from Budda, Fargen, Rocktron, and others. New presets help you bring it all together and are included in the app.
Agile has intro pricing to get all of the new gear through in-app purchase for $9.99. Yes, I already bought it. AmpKit 1.2 costs $19.99 and is available from App Store.