Digital is digital, right? If you have digital effects they should be able to be configured to run as a plug-in on a computer or in a pedal, it’s just a matter of having the necessary DSP. We’ve recently seen Universal Audio, a massive name in studio plug-ins, moving into pedals for the first time and putting some of those in their UAFX modulation, delay and reverb pedals. Now it’s the turn of IK Multimedia and it’s maybe surprising that they haven’t done it before, considering how long their Amplitube guitar amp and effects emulation software has been around. IK has released four pedals; one each for Modulation (X-Vibe), Delay (X-Time) and Reverb (X-Space) and another (X-Drive) for all the dirt sounds.
The pedals all feature both mono and stereo connectivity options, apart from the X-Drive which has a different set of functions for the four jack sockets. Each has 16 different effect algorithms and 300 slots to store presets arranged in banks. Presets can be easily edited by an array of five knobs to directly adjust the main parameters plus a push-and-turn parameter knob to access several more but you can also quickly edit presets in the included AmpliTube 5 SE software, transferring them back to the practical librarian app which manages all 300 in the pedal. The USB computer
