It comes in two versions with BIAS Desktop being the entry version with 36 amp models to get started, the complete BIAS amp design modules and sync-functionalities to your mobile devices.īIAS Professional adds a few expansion packs and – most importantly – Positive Grids own „Amp Match Technology“ (we will talk more about this feature in a dedicated review later).īIAS Desktop runs for $99, the Professional-version costs $199. FeaturesīIAS Desktop looks pretty much exactly like it’s iOS-counterpart, but both versions only share graphics and the overall user-experience, while the desktop version was completely developed from scratch. In 2014, Positive Grid announced their entry to the Mac- and PC-world with BIAS Desktop, the advanced guitar amp modeler for your DAW of choice. Gamification galore!Ĭould we please – at this point – take a moment to marvel at the possibility to run your guitar or bass through a palm-sized “super-computer” and actually get a decent sound out of it? Who would have thought that we would be able to do that 10 or 15 years ago? After that they developed BIAS iOS, an app that lets you create your own amp from various modules and presets. Positive Grid first surfaced with their JamUp-line for iOS, a jam-packed guitar-suite for Smartphones and Tablets. I actually think that amp simulators for Guitars & Bass played the second most-important part in todays home-recording-standards (with Drum-Samplers being the number one). “Amp sims” are convenient, quiet, easy to set up and – most importantly – they are getting better and better up until the point where it is extremely hard to distinguish a purely digital, simulated guitar-track from an elaborately miked boutique amp recording.
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I’ve been an avid fan of amp simulation software ever since I played around with the first decent programs around 2004.