Amplitube For Ipad App Reviews

Does what it says but needs some more features and stomp boxes. Have to pay extra for everything

App crashes as soon as I open it 👎

Love the app, been doing me great for awhile but now the worst that could happen did. Here i am having spend a ENTIREE WEEEK clipping mixing and editing a demo i need for my promoter. Being super detailed to time we all of a sudden during and i accidental drag one channels take over another's channels take while the menu pops up then selects delete track almost instantly after dragging by accident while trying to zoom. Well about now easy ill just press the undo button a couple times.. Oh except the app froze on me and crashed. Losing MY ENTIRE BODY OF MY PROJECT THAT I CANNOT GET ANOTHER TAKE OF TILL I HIT THE STUDIO NEXT WEEK. All while i need is demo tomorrow. There is no save options. So i can save only what id like as i go, but instead am forced to whatever the app saves in the moment it closes or F'ing crashes.now i have nothing. But on top it'll now. As i have now attempted to do an acoustic version to get the point across, guess what?. IT CRASHES EVERY SINGLE TIME I TRY TO EDIT A DANG THING. I have paid $40 for what? Wasting literally 10's of hours of my life and hard pressed playing take after take to lose the entire project because the app crashed and i was given no backup option? Honestly even writing this is making me more mad. Unless there is a b***** miracle i think I'm done with this app. It time to put my work in the hands of a company that considers these possibilities and cares about the musicians work whom they built their whole business around

Paid 19.99 for Amplitube app download ... looper should have been included as per app preview ... but now it’s asking for another 19.99. Probably wasted many more dollars in time trying to figure out this cluster

Don’t waste your time sending on-line requests to IK MULTIMEDIA for problems related to AMPLITUBE......they never respond. They promise a reply within 24-48 hrs, then deliver NOTHING. And they don’t post most of their negative reviews, including mine which no doubt will include this one too. These guys are only interested in selling their adwares......beware of these scammers. Their 2.9/5 rating should warn you.

There are some things we could do better and more stable if you start supporting AU . In AUM we could control any amplitube Knob with MIDI, like the Wah for example using rozeta LFO

Over time i have purchased perhaps half a dozen packages from this company. Most of the devices have disappeared. And no, registering it or updating it does nothing. I'd love to have to do NO work at all, and simply find all my stuff back in my iPad and phone, were they were.

Please fix or update the quality of your overdrive/distortion stomp boxes.The level k*** don't work unless the gain k*** is up and your tube screamer is so weak I can't get unity volume even when it's wide open.Make the level k*** work with out the gain k*** having to be turned up.

I have used IK for years before the Apple Revolution. On the IPad Air 2, this program is great!! It does nitpick with the in app purchases which is very annoying! Other than that, this is a great tool!! Treat it as a practice/recording tool. I have cut some really good tracks with this. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Great tool for practicing & recording ideas. can get any sound you are after. Wouldn't recommend for giging. Tried too use as a pedal board in an effects loop.. Just ok for that. Highlt recommend using IrigHD, 10 fold better than the plain ol Irig. IK has excellent customer support asa bonus.

Picture shows compressor pedal, but it's not included.

This app is the worst. It's been around for a while and every so often, the company will remove a feature you used to have or had purchased only to make you pay for it again as a "feature." Like mic positioning. Apple really needs to hire some people to investigate app developers for predatory consumer practices.

Interesting business model guys. I paid 20$ for a pretty average app( garage band has better sounds for free). Can't deal with the constant pop-ups to upgrade...u guys are too greedy....lol. Good Luck

After upgrading to v4, the app would constantly crash during initial load. Ended up deleting app and re-installing. This seems to have fixed it. Haven't tested sound yet, but was slightly annoyed by having to remove the app, and worried that it wouldn't run on my iPad (iOS v7.1.2)... Hopefully I'll remember to update this review after more testing.

It's working for me pretty well on my lowly iPad 2. Overall the tone is now the best out there. Found one amp that cracks & pops, but it's not one that I really ever use. I could live without the unpurchased items cluttering up the interface. Amplitude definitely needs to rein in their marketing & sales division. Put that stuff in the free version.

Would have given 5 stars but can't get it to import iTunes music library songs for practicing along with. However iTunes and Amplitude work together so you can set up your amp and then switch to iTunes to play songs. Hopefully app update will someday sort out this one glitch. However this should be a 5 Star app and I don't get some of the reviews. This app is one of the best simulators I have heard. If it was the amps and pedals alone it would be great but you get many other features. Yes you have to pay to activate but since when do you get hardware for free? You don't. Any experienced gear head or musician understands that you have to pay to get quality gear. 28 years playing and to have only paid a little over $200 for this rig is amazing. 10 years ago this much versatility would have cost $1000-$1500. Keep the updates coming. Love them. Hopefully you can add some Boss pedals soon.

I'm disappointed that the device I thought would be compatible with Garage Band requires this app, and even more disappointed that it's $20 extra. The in app purchases make this app even further frustrating. You'd think that $20 is enough for all the features, but then you dish out even more once you have the app. I wouldn't recommend this device or its app to anyone.

Why?!!!!!!!

Base program and tuner upgrade work very well if you can put up with constant inapp ads. Bought Loops pack and they were ok not great. Vocalive inapp purchase was TERRIBLE along with the response from their support. Not being able to use more than one Vocalive effect at a time from inapp purchase. I got Orange, JH, Slash etc from a special outside the app and have to install the standalone apps to use them. Tired of the frustration so iPad has been formatted and IRig stomp is in the trash. Terrible customer support. It doesn't crash though so that's good. If they ever integrate upgrades that give you the full version inside AT I will reinstall.

i hope you can include a bass synthesizer stomp or any synthesizer that i can use for my bass i badly need it, i dont want to buy an analog stomp, i will definitely purchase that in app stomp if you can include it, amplitube is more convenient for my needs.

Title says it all, this app is crap!

I also have the Orange bundle, the Fender bundle and Slash Bundle, so have invested a fair amount here. Having this not work after the recent update is unacceptable. I will want all my money back that I have invested in this if you can't fix it pronto, please! Have sent in a ticket and no response yet. It's always been buggy but generally worked well for learning songs and practicing. Most unhappy now though!!!

App has a lot app purchases inside. Without these extras it barely usable. Expect to spend about $40 for this and that. However, it’s not possible to transfer purchased items to iPhone. I contacted support and they responded to all other issues, but for this one (can’t transfer purchased items) they just keep silence and do not reply. Also, while app has decent core functionality, it’s not polished and has a lot of bugs, like metronom will not start on first tap, need to stop and start it again. This app and it’s extras are priced unreasonably high for present quality.

I have no idea what's up with these negative reviews. I re-downloaded this app on my iPad 4, and everything works fine. All of my in-app purchases showed up, the sound quality is excellent, and the new layout is pretty sweet. Okay, so they've made the in-app purchases more visible. Cool. I didn't know there was an OCD model, and I probably wouldn't have looked for one, but I sure am enjoying it. If you don't want to buy the extras, then don't—the app is well stocked from the beginning. Look, by and large, I'm mild-weathered about IK Multimedia gear and software. They're okay, but usually nothing to write home about. The exception to this is their amp/effects emulation. I've been using everything from kidney-bean-shaped Pods to Eleven and beyond ever since this market opened up, and IK's Amplitube has always kept up with the competition. There are a ton of amp/effects modeling apps out there today, and most of them are okay. What I love about IK and Amplitube is that you can count on them to be accurate. I wanted an amp that sounds like my Hotrod Deluxe Deville, so I bought one. Other than the fact that I can get amp distortion out of the app without hitting tinnitus-inducing SPLs, the emulation is perfect. It's your call, but I'd say this is among the most solid guitar apps you'll find.

Really? And what's with the Bluetooth notification/sales pitch on every launch of the app? The reason the iPad hasn't been taken seriously by professionals is due in part to this sort of nonsense.

When it works it works great. With the new UI the project managing no longer works well. It crashes every second time it is opened and crashes each time I tap the edit button. In turn I can't free up space because I can't export nor delete. I hope this is quickly fixed.

I really want to love this app and have invested in the orange, ampeg, and Mesa bundles. After the recent update, can't even get it to launch! The popping and hissing go away when the tracks are compressed, but makes playback a terrible experience. After three weeks of being unable to access my projects and finding ZERO help, I've decided to delete and reinstall. I lost EVERY project in the process. I can't believe you guys didn't do a better job in QA. Seriously disappointed.

I would like to adjust the volume of the metronome separately from the other sounds.

This used to work fine. But now it crashes all the time when recording and switching between projects. It is so aggravating because it used to be good. Honestly I'll never use this product or this company's other products again. There are far better products elsewhere. Trust was broken. Seems like it may have gone down hill after forcing the software to give me pop-up adds for their c***** speaker even though I've spent a ton of money on their software as it is. Stay away.

The effects are low quality. Constant pop ups asking to purchase additional features. This is made worse by grouping purchased and unpurchased items in the same selection menus. Blueboard functionality broken with IOS9, IK says don't upgrade IOS until bugs are worked out, but this bug existed in the betas. For the price, this software should be ready on day 1. Very disappointing overall.

Not only did this app that I PAID for throw an ad in my face, it was an ad for $300 speakers! REALLY?!? Are they nuts?!?! That's 20x more than the price of the app! What makes them think I can afford that?!? WORST UPSALE TACTIC *EVER*!!! ONE STAR!!!!!!

Where is the new update ? Always takes soo long for updates from IK😡May22.. And I'm writing this over a month later.Shame on you for the delay.This last update is horrible. Memory leaks, and overall bad integration with Audiobus etc.. Glad I was able to go back to the prior version,while waiting for a new update.Which at this rate could be a LONG time👎🏼

This app works great but just about every feature marketed as included has to be bought separately. It cost me $50 just to get started with this app. Misleading advertising ruined this for me but it is a cool app.

I have this on my iPad and finally started messing around with it. Got it working and wanted to buy an amp for $4.99. I made the purchase and it didn't appear in the app. Tried buying it again and it said it has already been purchased and would be restored but it never has. This is horrible and a waste of my valuable time.

For $15 you get nothing? No pedals? No nothing? What am I getting that I wouldn't get in the free version? I'm not happy.

I cannot record more than two tracks any more due to the latest update of this product. the in app help is offline and I am getting an internal server error trying to find information or register anything. Wait for a fix. Updated for ios10...its broken again

Product registration process is ridiculously hard and buggy. The same user name, pasword and serial number that works on the website does not work on my ipad. AND there is apparently no real tech support. You have to send them an email. With the price they charge i expect better.

My paid version of amplitude turned into trash after update. It is no bueno... 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

I bought the iPad app, and with other apps you get the iPhone app also. Not with Amplitube. They make you spend extra on all the stuff to make it usable, and now I have an iPhone and would have to buy the app and all the other ad ons again. No thanks.

I used to love this app, but it has become virtually impossible to use. And given how badly it performs, they have the nerve to continually interupt to sell more stuff. Sorry I ever started using this.

The guitar amps used to sound good now everything sounds awful unless you want to buy all the upgrades. Greedy

This thing is a JOKE! I hate it. Complete waste of money. Doesn't function, manual is totally outdated, they want more payment for anything useful, worst mistake I have made buying apps. Stick to GarageBand, it does what it says it will do and isn't a bait app to sell you $$$$$$ of stuff to make it useful. I'd give it -10 stars if I could. I was skeptical when the reviews were non existent before purchase, now I know why!

Total garbage. Paid 5 bucks and all I get is one track to record on. Having a second track to record costs extra. As a matter of fact, every single item costs extra. You need at least $50 into this setup to for it to have ANY utility for a musician. You are better off using the microphone on your iPad. UNINSTALL. I WANT A REFUND.

I would normally think, that a Company should stand behind his product but it seems IK Multimedia refuses to do it. If I am wrong please fix your product. When I bought this product, I was expected that it functioned properly, not sometimes.

Red Pig ?

I will be honest, I haven't recorded anything with it yet. But the US sales team has been awesome! I have worked with them a bit making sure I get what I need and they have been very helpful. I have had this software for awhile now and it's been great, no issues, no delays no static. I have known some local guitar players to use this on the stage live. For what this software delivers you can't go wrong and the price is awesome compared to some pedals I own that are $350 and more and take up allot of space. I sold them off and just use this now and used the trade in to get another guitar :) Oh and I did contact technical support and they did get back to me with in 24 hours as stated. So maybe it's the reviewers attitude that's the reason he didn't get a response. I have used both the original IRig which did record at a lower quality and then the new IRig 2 HD. The new one connects a heck of allot better in my opinion and does offer a much higher quality of sound. Also wanted to add I have tried about 7 apps or so that do the same thing and this one by far is laid out the best and the easiest to us. Also it is maintained while some on the App Store shouldn't even be allowed to be sold. I don't work for IRig I just had to review because of the low score and the fact that from what I have used thus far, its a much better product than the others on the App Store including garage band.. lol.. wonder if some of the negative reviews aren't from other companies trying to boost their product? Wish we had an open forum would love to talk to the people with issues.. PEBCAK maybe? Can't wait for a David Gilmore Set!!

I am using this product on an iPad 3. My main complaint is with the loop drummer, which hasn't functioned since iOS 8 was installed. I have communicated with the manufacturer and they acknowledge the issues. They have released updates that do not rectify the problems. I have spent a great deal of money on their hardware and software. This product is virtually useless in its present state. I do not recommend purchasing this product until the bugs are fixed. It's taking way too long. IRig, iLoud, BlueBoard, Slash, Hendrix, Fender, Drum tracks, looper, 8 track daw....what else? Can't even calculate the investment. It does not function. Complete joke. Do not recommend. Spend your money elsewhere. Poor to nonexistent customer service. That being said, when it functioned, it was a useful tool. F to the U.

I heard about this app and thought it sounded like a great idea/product. So, I went to the app store and got the free version after purchasing an iRig for $10 on Amazon. Everything worked great. But my options were a little limited (understandbly seeing as it was free). I was decided to upgrade to the pay version but wanted to check out the reviews first. There were so many negative reviews that I almost changed my mind. But then I figured, hey, it's only $20. So glad I got it. Everything works great and as expected. The included amps are the first 8 that show up in the top row of the free version. And the included stomps are the first 17. So, there's a lot to try out and play with. You do get a lot for the money. Would certainly recommend.

after updating amplitube.. it's making some weird static noise.. 👎👎👎

Fizzy, harsh top end, crash prone, too expensive. Get AmpKit+, Audiobus, and GarageBand for a killer replacement.

False, misleading description of what you are getting. I bought the Irig $40. The store repaid it came with a "upgrade from the free to the paid version. It doesn't. So another $20. Then I look into it and not tons more then the free version had. ($20. For this app should unlock it all, common!) and then I go to the Drum machine and guess what...you get NOTHING more than the free version! 1 cheap as drum pack for Rock only. What another drum rock pack $5.00. Oh you want maybe a blues, or jazz or more rock beats.. $15.00 On and on. Screw this man, I have Rock Band on my iPad free.

A loud feedback and ground to

I was excited when I first read about this, but for it to be anything but an amp, they want you to spend the amount of money as actual gear would cost. My AMPLIFi Fx cost me $100 used and came with dozens of amp models, cabs, pedals, effects and the app was free. New patches are free. This on the other hand is complete garbage where they want to nickel and dime you for everything. I spent $20 so I can play my guitar thru my iPad on one amp model. They won’t get another dime from me. Do your research. I wasn’t scared off by the bad reviews and I should have. This isn’t about the musicians at all.

This app is really incredible to me. The attention to detail, quality of the replicated pedals / amps is just awesome. I am using this with the irig Stomp I/o and it is such a fun convenient yet high quality experience. It is allowing me to learn about gear without spending thousands of dollars (just hundreds bc I did buy the irig and unlocked all the gear in the app haha) I have officially ditched line 6'a outdated and abandoned AMPLIFi app for AmpliTube. Thank you for creating this and continuing to improve it!! Oh and I should add: I love that I am able to run this out to my boomerang loop pedal that I love. I couldn’t do that with my AMPLIFi. I know that this app has a looper built in but I prefer using a dedicated pedal board for looping so this is awesome.