Impressive and highly useful!
This appears to be a solid implementation of the open source NAM (neural amp modeler). It sounds excellent in my opinion from my time spent with it during the trial period and of course it does because it is the same NAM we all known and love at its core.
The included parametric models all feel realistic and responsive. Of note, however, there is no Mesa Recto included, sadly. The SLO100 will get you most of the way there for now.
Be aware:
1. You cannot load you own models into this Lite version. Or at least I wasn’t able to via the iOS file loader from my Mac.
2. At $39 this is expensive for a non-full featured version of something that is completely free and open source on other platforms with all features and functionality. I will concede that the interface is very good.
3. It remains to be seen what the non-“lite” version will include and whether additional payment will be required to use that feature set, which let’s face it would be an infuriating money-grab.
4. If you plan to use this as a preamp stand in for a gig, be forewarned that it’s 1+ millisecond latency means that adding any digital effects to the signal path will quickly make it unplayable. Also, any alarms or sound notifications will interrupt your playing which would be pretty embarrassing if you forget to disable them all first.
The included parametric models all feel realistic and responsive. Of note, however, there is no Mesa Recto included, sadly. The SLO100 will get you most of the way there for now.
Be aware:
1. You cannot load you own models into this Lite version. Or at least I wasn’t able to via the iOS file loader from my Mac.
2. At $39 this is expensive for a non-full featured version of something that is completely free and open source on other platforms with all features and functionality. I will concede that the interface is very good.
3. It remains to be seen what the non-“lite” version will include and whether additional payment will be required to use that feature set, which let’s face it would be an infuriating money-grab.
4. If you plan to use this as a preamp stand in for a gig, be forewarned that it’s 1+ millisecond latency means that adding any digital effects to the signal path will quickly make it unplayable. Also, any alarms or sound notifications will interrupt your playing which would be pretty embarrassing if you forget to disable them all first.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review. You can load your own NAM models , no restrictions. Future updates with additional functionality amps and effects are going to be free. Finally saying that adding an effect will make it unplayeble due to latency is not right people using GigFast with full chain of effects inside their preffered DAWS or plugin hosts.
